Like many of you, I have followed the "It Gets Better" vidoes with great interest. Dan Savage's video and the one by a town councilman in Texas were fantastic. But I guess everyone has jumped on the bandwagon, and they've started making videos talking about getting bullied for being nerdy and or being fat.

Gabriel Arana at The American Prospect says that this campaign which was aimed at helping gay kids has lost its steam. "That conversation should begin by acknowledging that general "bullying" is different from the sort of prejudice gay kids are up against. It's one thing to be told you're stupid, a dork, or ugly during high school, and another to be a permanent member of a stigmatized group."

He says that being made fun of for your race or your sexuality is different from being bullied for your weight or your skirt length. It's harder to deal with because the bullies are targetting your very identity.

The "It Gets Better" project started off as a community response to growing up gay in a society where that's not accepted. The gay teen in me — exiled to some remote corner of my consciousness — feels a little less isolated when I see Fort Worth City Council Member Joel Burns talk about his fear of being rejected by his father, and his happiness the day he got engaged. It would have been nice for the public at large to join the conversation, but instead they changed the subject.