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thedailywhat:

Bully of the Day: The MPAA today rejected the Weinstein Company’s request to reduce the rating of their bullying documentary from an R to a PG-13.

The rating, given for language, was reportedly upheld by a single vote.

Harvey Weinstein had hoped Bully could be used as an educational tool for teachers looking to augment existing anti-bullying lesson plans. However, the ruling may restrict the showing of the film in certain schools, as it prohibits viewing by children under 17 years of age without a parent or adult guardian present.

As a result, Weinstein Co. released a statement saying it “is considering a leave of absence from the MPAA for the foreseeable future.”

The MPAA followed up with their own statement, saying that while they agree that Bully “can serve as a vehicle” for discussions about bullying, the association “has the responsibility…to acknowledge and represent the strong feedback from parents throughout the country who want to be informed about content in movies, including language.”

It remains unclear if Weinstein intends to follow through with his threat, but, as Deadline points out, due to “longstanding though nonbinding agreement between exhibitors and the MPAA,” unrated films have a much tougher time getting shown in theaters than R-rated films.

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the first few seconds immediately brought tears to my eyes..

when my younger brother was around 9-12 years old i would notice the neighborhood kids he would try to be friends with would take advantage of how nice he was and basically con him out of the few dollars he had to his name. Around the time he started skateboarding, he was still a chubby little guy in hand-me-down clothes that were too big, who spent most of his time afterschool at the skatepark learning how to master it. One day as I decided to drop by to surprise him with a late lunch, i pulled up and just saw him sitting on a bench, head down, and crying. As his older sister, it broke my heart seeing him so upset. Come to find some asshole kid basically told him that he didn’t belong at the skatepark, and that he was fat, and that his clothes made him look poor, and that he should just leave. There is no reason to demean a child and make him feel undeservingly worthless. It’s damaging on so many levels, and I truly hope that more and more people are educated on making sure that bullying be eliminated. It’s not the child who is to blame, it’s their parents.