>> ^xxovercastxx:
This girl was 18.
>> ^LittleRed:
I'm completely baffled as to how a 13 year-old would think it acceptable to send nude photos to anyone.


Jessica Logan was 18, and she's the girl this story is referring to. LittleRed is likely thinking of Hope Witsell, who committed suicide over sexting in September of this year. Hope was 13 years old.

Double standard-riffic! Not too controversial for the sift, and it's a good find, but I'm downvoting anyways because Cenk Uygur's message is so completely disgusting. I've never seen Ana Kasparian so angry before; it looked like she wanted to reach across the desk and just rip Cenk a new one, and I hardly blame her.

The problem here is that Jessica Logan committed suicide that we have more or less collectively decided was preventable, and Cenk not only states that there should be no repercussions, but that the entire episode is Jessica's fault and her fault alone. He takes the attitude that kids will be kids, the administrators were idiots, the parents were clueless, but they were all just playing the parts expected of them so the sexting and the suicide are solely on the head of Jessica. Never mind that kids are remarkably cruel and when you are forced to go to school for eight hours every day, there's no reprise and no recourse from being endlessly degraded. Never mind that when you're contemplating suicide, you're not in a proper state of mind and someone else needs to step in and make some decisions for you.

I agree that suing is not the answer, but saying "just let it go" is insensitive, despicable, and dangerous. Punishments must be handed down to demonstrate that the behavior of those around her is completely unacceptable. The boy in question needs a suspension at minimum, and anyone identified as making the situation substantially worse should suffer the same punishment. The school administrators... I'm sorry, but their careers need to end for a little while. If one of your students died a preventable death under your watch solely because of actions taken at your school, you are responsible and should be fired. If there are no punishments, then our society is saying "this is okay after all."

>> ^LittleRed:
I certainly didn't have picture messaging at 13, or even a cell phone.
To be fair, it probably wasn't 2009 when you were 13, either.

This girl was 18.

>> ^LittleRed:
I'm completely baffled as to how a 13 year-old would think it acceptable to send nude photos to anyone.

Sucks that she killed herself. More important than not sexting is don't date worthless fucking douchebags that would do this sort of thing.

>> ^LittleRed:
... I'm completely baffled as to how a 13 year-old would think it acceptable to send nude photos to anyone. I think this is a problem of society and the media more than anything else. [And the parents contribute largely, too. I certainly didn't have picture messaging at 13, or even a cell phone. There's no reason for it.]
Kids experiment. Kids experiment a lot. Not only do they do things, they do stupid things. The stupider, the higher the risk they're going to do it. A lot of countries have experimentation exemptions for kids. That's the reality. Mine does, the US? Yours is just a messed up pile of crap.


The problem is between law, society, individuals and technology. Most of this stuff is still catching up, we've had an amazing technological leap in the last 15 years. Every kid has a cellphone now(hell I still don't have one). They use it for socializing they also use it--as we're seeing experimentation because they're able to. The same will happen with any technology, yes things happen. You won't stop kids, you can tell kids "don't do it" they'll do it anyway. Do you really think they care? No. Did you ever listen to a lot of what your parents said. Probably not.

This has nothing to do with sexting. This is all about one poor little emo goth girl who was too depressed to deal with the "stresses" of life. (As if she knew anything about real stress.) She probably just wanted attention; she didn't REALLY want to die. I think she probably realized that, but by then, it was too late.

However, the parents are dumbasses. Sue yourselves, dipshits. Not the school. YOU fucked your kid up, NOT the school. Fuck you for being greedy assholes. Maybe you should take a look at yourselves and your parenting skills. Maybe you should have paid more attention to your daughter, and made her feel more wanted and appreciated. Maybe you could have taught her a little more about how to deal with things and what it means to be loved. Don't blame the boy, don't blame the school, don't blame your daughter, BLAME YOURSELVES.

People piss me off. Please stop motherfucking breeding.

I think that the "skank" tag is a bit cruel.

I don't really see sexting as a problem as much as I see it as an example of how fucked up our culture is.

We put way too much emphasis on these things, and as a culture we in America totally blow them out of proportion.

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The saddest thing about this trend is that these girls are peer pressured into sexting, and then punished by both their peers and the school system when they give in to the pressure. This related story (about another girl) is the saddest thing I've read today:

http://sylviasproblem.wordpress.com/2009/12/02/what-happened-to-hope-witsell/

I sext messages and images of myself in the lounge all the time... is that wrong? There are archives!? *eek*

>> ^KnivesOut:
Not too controversial. Say what you will about TYT, but this is good advice. Kids need to understand the dangers of a digital society that archives everything. This applies to Facebook as well, kids.


Sage advice. Whenever I'm going to post on FB, I as myself, "Could this bite me in the ass later on?" It's a pretty simple test, but it's saved me from posting things I know I shouldn't.

I knew good things would come from MMS support on the iPhone.

Sexting - Destroying future presidential candidates daily.

SURELY you won't find any of these shenanigans on the other side of the aisle.

What you won't find the other side of the aisle doing is preaching how 'family values' is the be all to end all of morality and the then hold themselves up as paragons of that virtue.

Its like hypocrisy is valuable commodity and they're trying to get all of it they can. Preaching abstinence only while your teenage daughter gets knocked up, espousing the evils of gays while sexting underaged congressional pages from an airport bathroom where you're getting a BJ through a glory hole, 'hiking the Appalachian trail', screaming that illegal immigrants are ruining the country when you've got 5 tending your garden, bemoaning government spending and intrusion while you're giving the okay for huge defense spending and tapping of citizen's phones. The Republicans' behavior is the very antithesis to their own ideology.

No the dems or libs aren't great, but for the sheer absurdity of their positions vs actions the republicans take the cake.