The "It Gets Better" campaign always seemed to fall short to me; celebrities appealing to kids they have never met that sunny days are ahead. Kids staring down the barrel of a gun that they themselves are holding know that more often than not, that celebrity is just jumping on a band wagon and that the words being said are being read off a cue card that a publicist approved. Nobel idea, sure, but it still smells like a steaming pile of bullshit to me.
Before I finished grade 11, two kids I knew blew their heads off with shotguns. I was 17 then. I am 40 now. Things have not got better.
As Mr. Mercer says, we have to make it better now.
