I was a teenage victim...and I MADE IT OUT!
My name is Will Benson...who used to go by Billy Benson...and I am a Teenage Bully Victim. There's so much going on the TV, Papers and interwebs about bullying lately; I guess I felt like maybe it was time to say that out loud. I say it again...My name is Will Benson...who used to go by Billy and I am a teenage bully victim. AHH the freedom. I don't mean to poke light at this epidemic...but I guess I wanted to write because I think the media has this ALL WRONG. They're tackling it from the wrong angle. I don't think covering the stories on Today and Good Morning America...interviewing puffy eyed parents who are now living through every parents' worst nightmare and reporting in angry tones about how the schools have no bullying policies, and states are cracking down is the answer. This isn't going to be solved by the emotional detachment that journalists are SUPPOSED to engage in to do their job. This requires something more personal. We're dealing wi...