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Respect
Always respect others
Do you know boys who act as if treating girls badly is cool? Ernesto, Orondé, Wilson, and Jim learned to treat girls with respect.
ERNESTO: I've seen a lot of guys talk, "Hey, that girl did this and that." I think it's sad.
ORONDÉ: Took me awhile to figure that out. Every time I looked at a girl, I looked at her as a sexual object.
WILSON: Respecting a girl is important because she can feel the way you're feeling. You want to treat her the same way you want to be treated.
ORONDÉ: She deserves the same courtesy as I'd like in a relationship.
JIM: Guys that take advantage of girls have no respect for themselves and no respect for the girls. They're usually guys trying to prove something.
WILSON: I would like never like play around with their minds or manipulate. I treat my girlfriends not like girlfriends, but "girl friends," as if they were my other guy friends.
ERNESTO: When I met my best friend, who is my girlfriend right now, it was "just friends." I would talk to her about anything. She was there to listen and to help me feel better. I used to hear guys put girls down, and I'd ignore them. I didn't want them to pick on me. Now, I speak up.
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Do you know boys who act as if treating girls badly is cool?
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Ernesto
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Jim
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Wilson
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Orondé
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It's A Fact.
Healthy relationships are built on mutual trust and respect.
Everyone deserves and should expect to be treated with respect.
Treat girls the way you'd want your mother or sister to be treated.
Dealing With It.
If you hear someone putting girls down, speak up. Tell them everyone deserves to be respected.
If you treat someone poorly, it says more about you than it does about them.
If you treat another person with a lack of respect, ask yourself what you are trying to prove to yourself or to them.
Hear more from Ernesto, Oronde, Wilson, and Jim in Boys on Bullying DVD/VHS
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