Basically, NY Magazine just put out an article essentially defending a 17-year old boy that leaked his girlfriend's nudes and blames the victim and her friends for making a list of boys to avoid at their high school.
Link to tweet: https://mobile.twitter.com/NYMag/status/1539219557285502977
Please go dunk on this.
i believe in compassion and forgiveness and all of that, i believe that teenagers are still children, and shouldn't be held eternally responsible for the fucked up shit they do while their brains are still developing.
but like, oh no, his friends of the same age think he's a dickhead because he acted like a dickhead. tough shit. in 2 years he'll have graduated and it literally won't matter to anyone.
I tend to agree. And I think my problem ultimately comes down to why publish this in the first place? What was the author trying to accomplish? Between the creepy prose and the victim blaming it just felt like leaving the situation alone would have been the best thing to do.
And I'm sure similar situations have been occurring all over the US since smart phones have become common place. Maybe even before that.
it so clearly would be, except these kinds of high school dramas are symbolic for the media class. they see a child being rightly rejected by his peers for anti-social, predatory behavior and think "wait, these kids are going to be our coworkers in 5 to 10 years, and then what will they do to us?"
Maybe the author was a friend of the family or something.