Comments on: >Do we have to be silent the whole day? Can we text or post online? http://blog.glsen.org/do-we-have-to-be-silent-the-whole-day-can-we-text-or-post-online/ the GLSEN blog Thu, 28 Jun 2012 22:06:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: MANDY http://blog.glsen.org/do-we-have-to-be-silent-the-whole-day-can-we-text-or-post-online/#comment-837 MANDY Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:40:32 +0000 http://blog.glsen.org/do-we-have-to-be-silent-the-whole-day-can-we-text-or-post-online/#comment-837 >Today is the day, Day of Silence began when i woke up this morning and carried it throughout the day. I feel I had a great role in getting the word out that it is NOT okay to bully or harass LGBT people. Today all over my school, students have been participating in the DOS and i'm glad that so many people care so much and i appreciate how my school took it. They understood the meaning. If you do not want to participate then, don't that is your choice and nobody is forcing it upon you, but i encourage you to, People all over the world have been murdered just for being who they are, do you think that's okay?! I, for one, DO NOT and i won't stand for it. I wince thinking about the pain people go through hiding what they are and i'm here to speak about it. DAY OF SILENCE, 2011 >Today is the day, Day of Silence began when i woke up this morning and carried it throughout the day. I feel I had a great role in getting the word out that it is NOT okay to bully or harass LGBT people. Today all over my school, students have been participating in the DOS and i'm glad that so many people care so much and i appreciate how my school took it. They understood the meaning. If you do not want to participate then, don't that is your choice and nobody is forcing it upon you, but i encourage you to, People all over the world have been murdered just for being who they are, do you think that's okay?! I, for one, DO NOT and i won't stand for it. I wince thinking about the pain people go through hiding what they are and i'm here to speak about it. DAY OF SILENCE, 2011

]]> By: Jedi Girl http://blog.glsen.org/do-we-have-to-be-silent-the-whole-day-can-we-text-or-post-online/#comment-830 Jedi Girl Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:30:55 +0000 http://blog.glsen.org/do-we-have-to-be-silent-the-whole-day-can-we-text-or-post-online/#comment-830 >I'm staying silent for most of the school day. I be answering questions from my peers and I will fill my Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, and Gaia Online with facts about GLBT. >I'm staying silent for most of the school day. I be answering questions from my peers and I will fill my Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, and Gaia Online with facts about GLBT.

]]> By: Anonymous http://blog.glsen.org/do-we-have-to-be-silent-the-whole-day-can-we-text-or-post-online/#comment-827 Anonymous Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:47:04 +0000 http://blog.glsen.org/do-we-have-to-be-silent-the-whole-day-can-we-text-or-post-online/#comment-827 >This is a non-violent awareness movement and even though some children are brought up a certain way, it is still educational, in a way. This way, they can see how many people support this and therefore create their own way of thinking not just follow what their parents said, just because they said it. This is what growing up is all about. Creating your own conclusive decisions and possibly having to branch out of your family to be happy. I know some of my family members do not support this and mainly because of religion. And yet, they support my decision to do this because it's something I care about. Standing up for what you believe is a voluntary move. >This is a non-violent awareness movement and even though some children are brought up a certain way, it is still educational, in a way. This way, they can see how many people support this and therefore create their own way of thinking not just follow what their parents said, just because they said it. This is what growing up is all about. Creating your own conclusive decisions and possibly having to branch out of your family to be happy. I know some of my family members do not support this and mainly because of religion. And yet, they support my decision to do this because it's something I care about. Standing up for what you believe is a voluntary move.

]]> By: Andrew http://blog.glsen.org/do-we-have-to-be-silent-the-whole-day-can-we-text-or-post-online/#comment-802 Andrew Fri, 15 Apr 2011 01:59:00 +0000 http://blog.glsen.org/do-we-have-to-be-silent-the-whole-day-can-we-text-or-post-online/#comment-802 >This will be my first year participating, and look forward to staying silent. Luck and Love to all my fellow friends out their standing up for themselves, their family, their friends, and people they don't even know. >This will be my first year participating, and look forward to staying silent. Luck and Love to all my fellow friends out their standing up for themselves, their family, their friends, and people they don't even know.

]]> By: Silentpoet http://blog.glsen.org/do-we-have-to-be-silent-the-whole-day-can-we-text-or-post-online/#comment-778 Silentpoet Sun, 29 Aug 2010 21:15:23 +0000 http://blog.glsen.org/do-we-have-to-be-silent-the-whole-day-can-we-text-or-post-online/#comment-778 >I'm a Straight 15 almost 16 year old girl but last year I participated in DOS. I'm going to participate again this year. No one at my school is forced to do it. We don't ridicule those who don't participate. The people who do participate may get ridiculed themselves I got rude snarky comments made to me but I don't care. I'm standing up for something I believe in. My Uncle is Gay. I don't know him very well but I love him with my whole heart and soul. It's a choice to do Day Of Silence. If you want to participate do so and when you break the silence talk to others who participated along side you about the day. I talked to my friend who didn't participate about it and I found it to be very interesting to hear about what she noticed and then share what I noticed. I believe in free love. As Adam Lambert once said " Love overcomes hate. Love has no color. Love has no orientation. All is love. :)" >I'm a Straight 15 almost 16 year old girl but last year I participated in DOS. I'm going to participate again this year. No one at my school is forced to do it. We don't ridicule those who don't participate. The people who do participate may get ridiculed themselves I got rude snarky comments made to me but I don't care. I'm standing up for something I believe in. My Uncle is Gay. I don't know him very well but I love him with my whole heart and soul. It's a choice to do Day Of Silence. If you want to participate do so and when you break the silence talk to others who participated along side you about the day. I talked to my friend who didn't participate about it and I found it to be very interesting to hear about what she noticed and then share what I noticed. I believe in free love. As Adam Lambert once said " Love overcomes hate. Love has no color. Love has no orientation. All is love. :)"

]]> By: Adriaan http://blog.glsen.org/do-we-have-to-be-silent-the-whole-day-can-we-text-or-post-online/#comment-751 Adriaan Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:12:21 +0000 http://blog.glsen.org/do-we-have-to-be-silent-the-whole-day-can-we-text-or-post-online/#comment-751 >Re: Krystall Aether's Comment:<br /><br />"I don't care what your parents tell you. NO ONE wants their offpring to be gay."<br /><br /><br />I can falsify this one. I want my children to be at least somewhat bisexual - Don't we always tell our children to try everything at least once, just to see if they like it :) >Re: Krystall Aether's Comment:

"I don't care what your parents tell you. NO ONE wants their offpring to be gay."

I can falsify this one. I want my children to be at least somewhat bisexual – Don't we always tell our children to try everything at least once, just to see if they like it :)

]]> By: Krystall Aether http://blog.glsen.org/do-we-have-to-be-silent-the-whole-day-can-we-text-or-post-online/#comment-738 Krystall Aether Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:41:02 +0000 http://blog.glsen.org/do-we-have-to-be-silent-the-whole-day-can-we-text-or-post-online/#comment-738 >Wow! This is ridiculous. Half of you have no idea what you are talking about. And some of you are bringing religion into this?!? "We all need to be better Christians"? "I prefer to call it LGBTQQA"? Last time I checked, humans aren't asexual, nor does religion factualize sexuality. <br /><br />This whole organization... the whole idea... it's perplexing. I know of maybe five people who are participating and I will do my best to avoid them the rest of the year. I am in no way against gay rights, but this "DoS" is doing nothing but hurt and causes only more hostility. You say it isn't meant to "shove homosexuality down our throats," but that is exactly how it is.<br /><br />What if we had a "support straight people" DoS. Stand up for every straight person who has died. Creating something like this would influence kids to stray from homosexuality. So you are doing exactly that, the other way around.<br /><br />I don't care what your parents tell you. NO ONE wants their offpring to be gay.<br /><br />And by offspring, I mean two parents who love each other and had a biological child that is part of both of them. Biological. What biology and NOT GOD dictates as true children. >Wow! This is ridiculous. Half of you have no idea what you are talking about. And some of you are bringing religion into this?!? "We all need to be better Christians"? "I prefer to call it LGBTQQA"? Last time I checked, humans aren't asexual, nor does religion factualize sexuality.

This whole organization… the whole idea… it's perplexing. I know of maybe five people who are participating and I will do my best to avoid them the rest of the year. I am in no way against gay rights, but this "DoS" is doing nothing but hurt and causes only more hostility. You say it isn't meant to "shove homosexuality down our throats," but that is exactly how it is.

What if we had a "support straight people" DoS. Stand up for every straight person who has died. Creating something like this would influence kids to stray from homosexuality. So you are doing exactly that, the other way around.

I don't care what your parents tell you. NO ONE wants their offpring to be gay.

And by offspring, I mean two parents who love each other and had a biological child that is part of both of them. Biological. What biology and NOT GOD dictates as true children.

]]> By: Nalo http://blog.glsen.org/do-we-have-to-be-silent-the-whole-day-can-we-text-or-post-online/#comment-728 Nalo Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:51:13 +0000 http://blog.glsen.org/do-we-have-to-be-silent-the-whole-day-can-we-text-or-post-online/#comment-728 >im sitting in mt third hour class now being harassed for being silent today, i will stay silent and i wont give in to their childish and closed minded comments >im sitting in mt third hour class now being harassed for being silent today, i will stay silent and i wont give in to their childish and closed minded comments

]]> By: Nicole.... http://blog.glsen.org/do-we-have-to-be-silent-the-whole-day-can-we-text-or-post-online/#comment-720 Nicole.... Fri, 16 Apr 2010 11:25:08 +0000 http://blog.glsen.org/do-we-have-to-be-silent-the-whole-day-can-we-text-or-post-online/#comment-720 >I hada jus moved to a new school and not many people have known about it except for a couple of my close friends. But at my old school there had bee a club that i had bee aprt of, that had done it ever year. Today from 8 o'clock am to 5 o"clock pm I am not talking. Its hard though in this school cuase no one knows of it. So i am hoping my teachers will under stand... cause no matter what the cost, Im standing up for what i beleave it. >I hada jus moved to a new school and not many people have known about it except for a couple of my close friends. But at my old school there had bee a club that i had bee aprt of, that had done it ever year. Today from 8 o'clock am to 5 o"clock pm I am not talking. Its hard though in this school cuase no one knows of it. So i am hoping my teachers will under stand… cause no matter what the cost, Im standing up for what i beleave it.

]]> By: Tulsi http://blog.glsen.org/do-we-have-to-be-silent-the-whole-day-can-we-text-or-post-online/#comment-717 Tulsi Fri, 16 Apr 2010 04:41:06 +0000 http://blog.glsen.org/do-we-have-to-be-silent-the-whole-day-can-we-text-or-post-online/#comment-717 >I think it is reduculous posting comments about how they hate the day of silence. When the question originally started with Can you text or post online.(Which you can) but yeah I don't think that LBQT issues should be private if people are commiting sucide or being bullied. People have to STOP being so private about everything because someone is going to get hurt. And I feel sad for you people that get protests for this day. We're actually having a diversity dance at our school afterwards. So yeah, I feel lucky and in a way more safe of my beliefs because of this. >I think it is reduculous posting comments about how they hate the day of silence. When the question originally started with Can you text or post online.(Which you can) but yeah I don't think that LBQT issues should be private if people are commiting sucide or being bullied. People have to STOP being so private about everything because someone is going to get hurt. And I feel sad for you people that get protests for this day. We're actually having a diversity dance at our school afterwards. So yeah, I feel lucky and in a way more safe of my beliefs because of this.

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