Wednesday, October 6, 2010

All the suicides in All the world.

I'm not completely in agreement with Michel Martin who argues that technology and voyeurism in a reality obssessed culture is the blame for Tyle Clementi's death ,though I do share the admittedly minority opinion, like her, that it was sex and not necessarily sexuality that proved to be provocative and 'worthy' of broadcast. And I think his classmates should be punished as such. That Tyler chose to take his life, to me is a more complicated matter. He clearly lived in a larger world that wasn't the most welcoming, that discriminated, that begged him to change, to be 'normal.' It should have been the task each participant in this society to wear away those foolish notions that became hardened within him-- his death and every unnecessary death in the end is our failure. They belong to all of us.

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