Day of Silence
 

www.dayofsilence.org

I'm doing it today. I don't figure many of you will - most of you arent exactly 'youth' - but does anyone here know people doing it, or has done it before, or just have any thoughts on it at all?

I had never heard of this before. It sounds like a good idea because there is a lot of bullying in american schools, at least the one I was attending, and not just against homosexual students.

a good cause

A friend of mine back in Boston usually does this each year.

If someone makes fun of homosexuals, etc in front of me, I just usually make fun of them back.

I'll admit from someone on an outside source, I was annoyed when some kids in my school did it last year but I'm not going to tell them not to since it is a protest, which I am in favor for.l

Yeah my high school did it all four years I was there. Actually it is on the rise I think. For a good cause.

What was that, Ibram? I didn't hear you ...

I do my day of silence each year. I fully support the GLBT Community, and think the bible thumpers should go back to pris-, err, church.

SS, I love you.

Jammin' good with Weird and Gilly!

Everyone seems to love me around here. I like it.

I just hope everyone remembers that I have a penis. I've already been mistaken for a lady in the VT Shooting thread. =(

Maybe it's your girly signature.:stickpoke






I'm just teasing, but on a more serious note, you'd make a lot of folks like you more if you at least made it left-aligned instead of center.

It takes a real man to like purple.

My daughter is doing it - she's a member of GSA.

Very cool thing to do. I like it.

As someone who is 'not exactly youth' ;) I will support you in my head. For some reason I don't think I could get away with a day of not communicating here at work.

Sure you could. Carry around a little notepad, and a pen. That's what I did.

I need to snap a picture of it, but the somewhat confusing ads around campus at USF for the gathering advertise 'Day of Silence -- Free Music'.

That's when you just staple your ad right over theirs.

I wonder if people will answer their cell phones.

I had mine off, and had a message recorded that said i would call people back the next day.

Just don't be snobby about it.

I asked a girl a question once last year when they were doing it and I thought she was going to kill me when I asked a second time after she ignored me the first.

Day of Silence at USF included free food and music (?). Can you sense the confrontation that is about the occur?

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/173/4...7705f676f5.jpg

...and a "Hate Wall" that encouraged people passing by to write ethnic, religious, and sexual slurs they had been called. The wall was torn to shreds by the group later that day in a symbolic gesture of overcoming hate.

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I personally like the graphic addition for this one.

There was also the expected...

http://www.somefaintlight.org/blog/i...0418/nappy.jpg

...the professional...

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"Your too hyper to go further in this company."

...and the personal.

http://www.somefaintlight.org/blog/i...0418/crack.jpg

Ouch.

A few students did that in my senior year of highschool, but seemed to be more concerned with causing problems with it then using it as a gesture. They'd stand in front of doors in a group and then get pissed (as much as anyone can without speaking) when people asked them to move. Almost as if they didn't think anyone would pay attention to them if they didn't get up front about it. Cant remember anything happening in years before that, maybe they thought people allowing them to continue without any fuss was ruining their protest?