Gross Cyber Bullying in High School "Smut List"

I heard about a "smut" list that was posted to Facebook last week naming high school girls in Westchester, NY and Greenwich, CT as alleged "sluts". Presumably this sort of list began in colleges and now is popping up in high schools. This list was also passed on through mobile devices exposing and exploiting 100 high school girls.

When I searched for more information on this story, the first story that I read included this very disturbing statement:

 Everybody just needs to calm down here. A high school slut list is the best thing that a high school   kid could ask for. It saves so much time and embarrassment if you already know who’s down to f*** at the party, and who’s the prude. If the ladies don’t want to be on the slut list, all they have to do is stop being a slut. It’s not that hard. Once you turn down a drunken blowj** at a party, word will          spread and you’ll be erased from the list faster than the speed of light. Nobody wants prudes on their    slut list. That ruins everything.

This is disturbing on so many levels. It's bad enough that this list was published but hearing a statement like this in support of something so dispicible is truly atrocious.

Nearly 42 percent of children have been cyberbullied and 35 percent have been threatened online, according to a recent survey by i-SAFE Inc., a leader in Internet safety education. Any support of such a "list" should be abolished and violators should be persecuted.

My hope is that this list has already been shut down and the culprits who created this list and whoever added to it or passed it on be punished for cyber bullying. My only worry is that the damage is already done. It is hard enough to deal with the typical bullying at school but now that this has become viral this is not just a school yard name calling, this is public slander. I do hope the parents of the girls on the list talk to their daughters and get them help to overcome this scrutiny.

The schools that were involved in this should conduct a mandatory sexual harrassment and proper conduct workshop to guide the children in what is appropriate and not appropriate conduct. Providing a review of what verbal abuse is, as well as cyber bullying. Laying out what is inappropriate to post, for instance, private pictures and creating lists.

In addition all the girls who were named should be provided with counseling by the school to ensure they handle the scrutiny and prevent them from spiraling into depression. There has been other incidents were students of such public cyber bullying actually took their own lives because they couldn't deal with it, most notably the student from Rutgers University who was subject to a video of a private, intimate moment being streamed online. I would hate to think of any of these girls taking drastic measures to avoid the humilation.

What happened to treating girls with respect. This sort of thing cannot be tolerated.
Jan and Steph