Madonna;solution to end bullying: Stop gossiping for one day | EW.com
What do you think? Could the Madonna Plan work? I don’t know that telling a teen they’ll have “more free time” gets the job done. But I like the idea of asking teens to walk away from people who are gossiping and bullying. Even if you’re not saying anything, by standing there and listening to it, you’re telling that person that what they’re saying is acceptable. I remember in high school, I found out that a close male friend of mine, who was dating my best friend, listened to another guy tear me down on a regular basis in physics lab. He never added to the conversation, which he thought was a good compromise because he didn’t want to lose this guy as a friend. But I could never understand why he wouldn’t at least tell him, “She’s a friend of mine. If you want to talk about her like that, don’t do it around me.” That’s a fair thing to say. (For the record: I still have no idea why that guy hated me … even after I interrupted an AP history class to announce to him — and the room — “I know you hate me. Why do you hate me?”)
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