Schools, bullies and homophobia
Judith Warner has an excellent piece in the (online) New York Times about the grave outcomes of a resurgence of bullying in schools that focuses on singling out those who are different in any way with accusations of “gay”
or “fag”. It has ever been thus, even while we strongly believe that we live in more tolerant times. Ms. Warner also points out that girls work very hard today to push the limits of sexual preening as far as possible without crossing the border that might lable them “slut”.