User blog comment:Cdc1998/Charles' Time at Bullworth:Chapter 22-/@comment-4833053-20120716061339/@comment-68.2.210.18-20120717002010

But you're not writing about Cincinnati, you're writing about Bullworth. Tough kids are out and proud at Bullworth, which is why homosexuality probably isn't an enormously huge deal there, and a rumor of someone being gay wouldn't be all that scathing. But if it was something like "He's gay and boned like twenty dudes at once" or something, then sure, that could be blown out of proportion and people would make more of a fuss over it.

Also, you were in middle school, weren't you? Kids are generally more petty about those kinds of things in middle school than in high school. There are still plenty of total twatwaffles in high school, but at least some of the kids there are somewhat mature-ish :P