 Whatever awards Chris Colfer and Max Adler get nominated for in the next six months , they earned ' em during this conversation , where Kurt wondered if maybe , just maybe , he wasn 't getting bullied because kids were indifferent to him being gay , not because Karofsky was serving as his security detail . ... [ Y ] ou could see in Kurt 's eyes the decision to start treating Karofsky not as a former tormentor , but as a terrified kid struggling with his sexual orientation . And Karofsky 's break — his first true apology for bullying Kurt , and his first tentative step toward admitting the root cause of his anger — had me reaching for the Kleenex . Tell me I 'm not the only one hoping Glee will keep journeying down Karofsky 's difficult road toward self @-@ acceptance . 
