Payback time 'slut list'

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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/KJ07Dj03.html


They say it's not easy to be a teenaged girl these days, and, wherever in the world you're talking about, that's probably right. In the Swat Valley in Pakistan, you may be a teenaged girl on her first day in class after the Pakistani army cleared the Taliban out of your town, but if a US Air Force officer at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada looks through the video camera on his Predator drone and sees a tall, thin, ruddy faced man as one your teachers, he'll probably launch a Hellfire missile from the Predator and destroy the whole school.

That's certainly tough, but if you're a teenaged girl in Millburn, New Jersey, about 40 kilometers west of Manhattan, attending Millburn High School, named by Newsweek magazine as one of the 200 best secondary schools in America, the American media says there might be a fate almost as bad in store for you. You could be being chosen for inclusion in the "slut list".

Saturating the US electronic media last week were tales of torment and torture from Millburn, a town whose US$1.2 million average real estate sales price means that the only time such songs of woe are usually heard here is when somebody's second mortgage falls through.

According to the greater New York CBS news affiliate, what happened at Millburn was an instance of senior upon freshman hazing so severe that it was called "hazing at its worse"; the NBC Today Show called it "a bizarre ... sexually charged ... school ritual". A parent decried the entire affair as "socially, morally, ethically unacceptable". On the New York Times "hyperlocal" blog page devoted to all things Millburn, one parent said the future costs of all this was "children who will become disfunctional , psychotic, damaged graduates that society will have to bear the burden of dealing with in the future".

Another parent pretty icily captures the zeitgeist of America 2009, if the country doesn't like a person outside the US they are sentenced to death from the heavens; but if the person is inside of the country and a member of the community, they'll get carpet-bombed with fearsome and brutal waves of mandatory sensitivity training.

"We know that the actions of a few who feel 'empowered' can have a lasting effect on those that are less empowered at any age," the parent writes. "We know that without intervention in the school, an 'innocent joke' can turn into a devastating experience. So, where are our leaders and our social workers who are supposed to be creating model schools?

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So just what was the outrageous behavior? A few freshman girls were made to wear some of the athletic team uniforms of the seniors. Others had school papers and/or textbooks knocked from their grasp in the hallways. A few had whistles blown in their faces or were pushed into school lockers. The worst calumny seems to have been the actual "slut list", a surreptitiously distributed handwritten list of the incoming girls' (presumably) false, explicit and unorthodox sexual proclivities.

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Being on the list means you are rich, you wear expensive clothing, and probably fall under the general umbrella of attractiveness. Essentially, the slut list is the Goldman Sachs daughters list, a distorted assertion of wealth and power within a highly pressured upper middle-class environment."

There's a nugget for the brain to chew on. Over there, on the other side of the Hudson River, at Goldman Sachs World Headquarters on Broad Street in lower Manhattan, as the new hires start their 65-hour weeks and those gunning to be a partner go for 100, as their ever-scheming and calculating big brains concoct more and better rewarding financial stratagems of ever greater and greater ferocity, such as high frequency trading (see Goldman Sachs, the Lords of Time, Asia Times Online, August 5, 2009 ), or the $11 billion received from the Federal Government to make good American International Group's credit default swaps, and all the rest of the general "vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity" (in Matt Taibbi's words) activities that just spread so much love for the company, one wonders. Do they ever ask why? Do they ever dream of a simpler life? What's it all for?

Now we know. It's so their daughters can make the slut list.

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[BolivarianHero]

1. When I hear those words...

I picture someone keeping a list of people who cheated on them for the purpose of seeking revenge. Not what I was expecting.

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

2. Where might one obtain this list?

:freak:

lol