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 enlarge | Author: Jodee Blanco
Publisher: Benbella Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 334555
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 472
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.1
ISBN: 1933771291
Dewey Decimal Number: 371.782
EAN: 9781933771298
ASIN: 1933771291
Publication Date: March 1, 2008
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 Was this really necessary? March 27, 2008
10 out of 18 found this review helpful
Wow. After hearing Ms Blanco speak, and then seeing her pummel some young clerk at Borders in Orland Park one night because he couldn't find her a copy of her own book, I was really surprised to see a sequel to her first book. As an educator, I found Ms Blanco abrasive in person, and pretty full of herself. This sequel adds to my impression, which is full of Ms Blanco being full of herself. I fear that the dramatic license she is taking is going to hurt the movement many educators have helped towards bully awareness. Stop talking Ms Blanco, and start listening.
 Bullying is no laughing matter March 5, 2008
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
Applause for Jodee for telling her story to help youth and teens to understand the pain of bullying and harassment behavior.
Bullying is a serious problem facing schools in the US. It is a physical and emotional action that has the potential to cause long-term damage to our youth and society.
Please Stop Laughing at Us telling a sincere story of the abuse of ones power over another.
The one main lesson we can learn from this story is Bullying is not a conflict - it is abuse.
This is a great book for parents, teachers and teens to read.
Deb Landry
Author, Sticks Stones and Stumped!
Victimization Is The Latest Cottage Industry March 4, 2008
11 out of 28 found this review helpful
Apparently, the book sales of "Please Stop Laughing At Me" necessitated this sequel with the pronoun change.
Jodee Blanco would have us believe she is an alchemy of Joan Of Arc, Anne Frank and Carrie. Do her recollections of her public school experiences really represent the type and frequency of bullying everyone has at one time or another been subjected to? Is, or was, Blanco the epitome of a particularly fractious personality that proved irresistible to hooligans of both sexes? Or is the reader, and those required to attend her school seminars, the true victims of apocryphal stories?
Perhaps the following Blanco quote reveals how this women has manufactured a past that rivals the most prolific modern day horror writer's imagination.
"You know the (book) Carrie (by) Stephen King? Well, what I went through in school made that character's experiences look like a Disney flick."
Blanco said this in 2003 to her interviewer Jacky Johnson, a sophomore at Seminole High School. Even Blanco's book titles are distilled from the movie's tag line, "They're all going to laugh at you." Blanco compares her bullying experience to the same type of trauma usually reserved for veterans of combat. In fact, she said on NPR's Diane Rehm show that she still suffers from post traumatic stress. Hyperbole seems to be a byproduct of being ostracized in school.
But let's examine some of the humiliations Blanco was forced to suffer at the hands of her numerous assailants.
1) Eighth-grade biology class, a classmate hurled a dissected pig at her chest, splattering blood and formaldehyde into her nose and mouth
2) A group of wrestlers held her down and shoved fistfuls of snow into her mouth until she couldn't breathe
3) Burned with cigarettes
4) Stoned by a group of boys.
Were there no police reports filed in these criminal acts that went far beyond "bullying?" The only indignity that didn't happen to Blanco was the bucket of pig's blood dumped on her at her prom night. But of course Blanco didn't attend her prom.
What could possibly be the catalyst for this barbaric treatment?
"Well, when you're independent like that, and you're your own person, it often makes you the target of abuse." Blanco attributes this singular treatment by her peers to being an iconoclast?
Bullies, in school and out, are an undeniable blight on society. Blanco has divided her school peers into two types of people: those who are bullies, and those who are bullied. That would account for 10% of the student body. Where does that leave the other 90%?
AMAZING February 26, 2008
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
This book is absolutely amazing. Once I started i couldn't put the book down and though I never bullied or was bullied, this book really made me think. This book made me cry so keep a box of tissues around. You won't regret buying this book, especially if you have been a bully or been bullied in the past!
This is a great book! February 22, 2008
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
I love this book. It let me see that I was not the only person who ever got bullied. I think with all the school violence going on these days, this is really important because so often it is the people who are being bullied that act violently. Jodee Blanco really understands this and I think schools should let their students read. That way maybe there would be fewer of these incidents.
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