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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can see a #boymom reply posts a mile away.

Boys don't care if one girl who may have been a matchmaker rides a bike near them.  If they want to drop their friend because of it, they are a bunch of clowns and the OP's daughter is better off finding friends that are loyal or nonchalant about this kinda stuff.

And the fact is, no one knows the true story of any of this because everything in middle school is blown out of proportion or completely made-up.  The fact that parents fall into this and care so much is pretty funny.  [/quote]

There is one obsessed poster who keeps using #boymom as an insult and then the rest of us who are intelligent enough to realize that a child of any gender should not be forced to hang out with another child who has done things to make them uncomfortable just for the sake of inclusivity. I have a son and a daughter. If someone annoys them about dating and crushes and stuff that feels awkward and age inappropriate for them, I will back their decision not to make plans with that person. Some of us are actually good parents who know how to respect our child’s feelings and autonomy about who makes them uncomfortable.

I do teach my children to be kind. These boys should not bully this girl. But the genders don’t really matter. It could be one boy making other boys uncomfortable or a girl making other girls uncomfortable. Nobody has to disregard their own comfort just because they are a boy or a girl.

What is ironic is that the #boymom poster is the one making this all about gender when it’s really not. She sounds like a bitter man-hater who is going to blame everything on a child being a boy, which is pretty gross.[/quote]

DP. I agree that it’s not about gender, but those boys are inappropriately singling out this girl. She’s just [u]ONE MORE[/u] kid who can be annoying; and ironically, the kids and adults who think that she deserves to be bullied(through relational aggression) because of it, are usually annoying themselves and would be bullied too.[/quote]

They have valid reasons for "singling" her out. She has done something and now there are consequences. It almost sounds like she was the bully and the boys distanced themselves. This is how kids learn to socialize.[/quote]

Wrong. She did something mild and different “rules” are being applied to her. [/quote]

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