Home Alone?

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“Jonah Mowry, Bullied Gay Teen, Reveals Fear, Suicide Attempts In Brave Clip”
“Bullied Teen Shares Story of Pain and Perseverance in Online Video”
“Gay Teen Jonah Mowry Says Bullying Made Him Stronger”
“Open Letter to Jonah: You Have Thousands of Friends You Haven’t Met Yet”
“WATCH: Bullied Gay Teen Jonah Mowry Is A Firework”
“Ricky Martin, Lady Gaga Tweet Support For Bullied Eighth Grader Jonah Mowry”

Dozens and dozens of headlines and thousands and thousands of words yesterday and today about Jonah Mowry, the 14-year-old who has unfettered access to a computer, a webcam, the internet, and now, horrifically, Perez Hilton, but apparently…no parents. What does it mean that out of every single column and blog post and tweet about Jonah Mowry, not one bothered to ask where this child’s parents were when he was cutting himself and contemplating suicide? What does it mean that instead of demanding that the responsible people be held responsible, the instinctive reaction is nauseatingly maudlin commiseration? Instead of figuring out who is accountable for Jonah Mowry’s life, we just can’t help but curl up in a ball, narrate his tears, and beg him to believe that “it gets better.”

15 thoughts on “Home Alone?”

  1. This probaly is for attention, he posted it on youtube for the world to see so your argument is quite redundant…
    Just because he wants attention doesnt mean he shouldnt get it, most of the time when people say there suicidal it isnt a desperate attempt for attentionfor an ego booster or popularity, its a desperate cry for help.
    Stop bagging on a 14 year old and grow a pair

  2. The mother of a teenage boy whose video accounting the bullying he’s endured says she’s thankful for the support her son has received.

    While the validity of the video has been called into question, Jonah Mowry’s mother told ABC News that the video is real, and that the Mowrys are also disheartened by aggressive comments made in response to the YouTube post. He originally made the video in August upon fears of returning to school.

    “I was dreading going back to school, and had not come out to my family yet,” he said according to ABC. “Only my closest friends knew. I didn’t know how to say what I needed to say. All I could think about were all the bad things that had been happening at school last year, every year for that matter.”

    The video went viral, but some accused him of being a fraud after a followup video, posted on December 4, showed a happy Mowry. “To the people who think nobody likes me, almost my entire school likes me,” he said in the video that he filmed with a friend.

    “I’m disappointed that somebody could look at the first video and then look at the second and think it’s a lie,” his mother said. “He’s a child. He’s a 14-year-old boy. He’s very young.”

    1. Isn't It Obvious?

      Bullied and afraid to go back to school, but everyone at school likes him? Huh? Whatever, people lie, children lie.

      1. Exactly. In my bones I feel that his video presentation is definitely contrived — I can’t place it, but definitely something rings false — and it’s not that I believe he’s an actor or a fake or that he’s lying about being bullied — I don’t know, but there’s something. Like 20 little things that don’t add up: the purposefully placed misspellings, and yet he uses the phrase “suicide was an option … many times,” the superior sound quality of the video, the familiar card placard presentation style, the fact that in 8th grade you’re the oldest in the school (before high school) and yet this is when he’s most scared, and which means that when he was in 7th grade apparently all his friends were a year older (?) and he was still bullied — also, the carefully generalized array of names he says he is called, his understanding of “cutting” as a particularly tragic cultural pressure point, and the “bravery” he shows in revealing it, and then of course that nuts uplifting ending.

        I have no evidence otherwise to doubt him, but man, every bone in my body says something’s up.

        It could also be that youngins these days are growing up in a society with 110% immediate feedback and so it’s just natural that a kid would turn to youtube, and in producing this piece would know what his audience will probably feel, and is probably looking for — and so maybe this makes him a brilliant communicator. In any case, I do think it’s interesting that he did this. Looking back at all those years I was a continually bullied faggot in the 80s, I can’t imagine how things could have been different if I had a youtubual at my fingertips for this kind of PSA.

        Oh, and I thought the kid was going to pull out a gun at the end and blow his brains out. I guess it’s good he didn’t — he has so much fan mail to respond to.

        1. Isn't It Obvious?

          There have been fake kidnappings, it honestly doesn’t seem extreme to me that someone would go to these lengths for the fame. The video becomes viral, quickly develops into a celebrity publicity stunt and so on and so forth. There’s money to be had in exploiting popular issues, hell it wouldn’t surprise me if it was the mother’s idea.

          There’s no evidence to prove it either way so I guess no one can be 100% sure, but I think people are sometimes too quick to jump on bandwagons and there are a lot of people that will take advantage of that.

          I don’t want to appear cold hearted y’know, I went through the same thing (and I’m probably what you’d call a youngin myself) but it’s not something I’d have shared with anyone let alone the whole world. That’s what mainly gets me, if something’s truly bad to the point of you contemplating suicide you don’t advertise it unless you’re just after attention.

          My gut instinct is to not believe it.

  3. The kid’s an attention whore who took a genuinely serious subject and exploited it for his own narcissistic needs. He’s contemptible and should be treated as a pariah.

    He conveniently misspells words that even the least educated know how to spell. His emotions are perfectly choreographed with the cards – please note how they turn on a dime when the cards turn hopeful at the end.

    In the new video he corrects our misconception that everyone hates him – in fact, according to this creep, they ALL love him. That’s delusion on stilts. We all went to school – there was NO ONE that every one loved.

    The creep now thinks he’s some kind of hero and he’s repulsive.

    When people really start digging around in this creep’s life we’re going to discover it was all bullshit – INCLUDING the cutting.

    Finally, I actually DO believe that kids at his school hate him – but not because he’s gay – because he’s an ASSHOLE.

  4. Please, this kid got exactly what he wanted, by suckering a bunch of people. Kids these days will do anything to get some media attention. 16 and pregnant.

  5. Neat. The maybe-suicidal gay kid is now being described as “full-of-shit” by porn blog trolls. Please close the internet.

  6. Your reaction was just like mine, Zach, I didn’t understand why gay blogs like “After Elton” were linking to the video calling the kid a hero. My reaction was WhereThaFuck are his parents? I know ever household is different but I had an argument with my parents one morning before school when I was 14, said something like “maybe this is the day I just don’t come home”. By the time I got to school the counselor was waiting in my homeroom to talk to me and I had to spend a solid month . making sure my parents knew I was fine. I know every parent isn’t that concerned but if your kid is old enough to use the computer then they are old enough for you to make time to ask them where they got those cuts.

    On the plus side since his parents are clearly absentee, he likes the drama of the camera, is likely to burn off that baby chub as he ages, in five years this will be archive footage for The Sword article on the newest bottom rotating through the gay porn sites. Assuming gay porn survives.

    1. Seeking attention by posting a dramatic and choreographed video for literally the entire world to be able to see? It sounds far-fetched, but you just might be on to something. We’d better be careful, though: if this catches on, maybe other people will start using this “YouTube” to seek attention, too.

      1. Isn't It Obvious?

        It’s not far-fetched, pretty common really. Besides people that genuinely go through this do not publicly broadcast it.
        Let’s face it, he has a computer and a webcam, someone must have bought him them…I’m betting he has parents, this seems a hell of a lot more like the actions of a spoilt child.

    1. This new video doesn’t mean he was lying at all. He was unhappy when he made the first one (four months ago), and now he’s doing OK. So what.

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