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There’s a grotesque irony in declaring that what is portrayed in Bully should be softened, or bleeped — should be hidden, really, because it’s too much for kids to see. Of course it’s too much for kids to see. It’s also too much for kids to live through, walk through, ride the bus with, and go to school with. That’s why they made the movie.

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Linda Holmes, writing about the R rating given to the documentary ‘Bully’.

There’s a second paragraph I wanted to quote as well, but I’m adding it down here as a separate thing due to the change in voice:

The entire point of this film is that kids do not live with the protection we often believe they do — many of them live in a terrifying, isolating war zone, and if you hide what it’s like, if you lie about what they’re experiencing, you destroy what is there to be learned.

Because while very pertinent, this chunk feels much more aimed at those who have the privilege of making that assumption - that kids are protected at all. 

(via nothingbutsurrender)

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