Mean Girls
Wow. Frankly I always think it is funny that people think things like this are so surprising because the girls involved are described as "good, middle-class white kids" who are involved with sports and whatnot. I mean seriously these cheerleader types are exactly the kind of sadistic mean girls that have everyone fooled into thinking that because they are pretty and involved with school sports that they are somehow "good kids". They are the female counterparts to the "Our Guys" syndrome that made the town of Glen Ridge, NJ rally around a group of "good" boys from the high school football team after they gang raped and sodomized a mentally retarded girl. No one ever wants to believe that these are the types of kids that would commit such blatant acts of sadistic cruelty to helpless victims...but they are. It seems to come from a deficiency of character and ethics that arises in those who have been elevated to some preferred status by their good looks and community adulation. After all it is usually the hunky star quarterback whose picture graces the weekly newspaper that winds up as the date-raping bully who torments the "lesser" kids. Maybe I am being prejudiced and stereotyping...but I like my stereotypes. Frankly I imagine that this kind of thing is more common than one would think.
Sad.
Sad.