Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Haven't Heard About "Smut Lists" On Facebook? You Will Now



AOL - Recently a Facebook group by that name surfaced, and its "Smut List" has been circulating around at least seven school districts in Greenwich, Conn., and New York's Westchester County...The list's purpose? To rank about 100 teenage high school girls based on their level of sexual activity, whether real or just rumored. While it initially started as a list that was circulated via Blackberry Messenger, the list quickly made headlines when it was posted on Facebook on March 15....The page, entitled "Westchester SMUT List" quickly received over 7,000 fans in 24 hours and essentially embarrassed -- and possibly tarnished the reputations of -- all of the young girls mentioned, including some as young as 14.

7,000 huh? I'm guessing that's nothing compared to the people who have read it and know about it now that you've gone to the news outlets with it.  Feel like this is one of those things that would have just went away in 6 months or so if no one brought any additional attention to it, but now? Now it's going to spread like Crabs through a frat house, there's no stopping it.  
Kids as young as 12-13 years old are going to be creating smut lists because they heard about it on the news.  Chics that sit at the same lunch table as boys will be classified as easy. Sharing snacks or holding hands, tramp.  You car pool with a boy? Instant slut status.  

This makes me tremendously jealous, when I was back in high school lists like this used to circulate, only instead of having a digital copy it was on a loose leaf piece of paper.  We didn't have the benefit of an eternal digital copy.  Like an administrator or faculty member would get a hold of it, rip it up and dole out a couple of detentions and that was it.  Months and months of recon work out the window in a matter of seconds. 

Not anymore these kids have a permanent digital map right to all of their schools sluts lockers, and there really isn't anything anyone can do about it at this point. It's ingenuity like this that makes me hopeful for this next generation of kids.