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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The students from Bethesda Chevy Chase High school are going to lower grades to teach them about this.  Perhaps you should be in touch and it can spread to other schools in other areas.

The Washington Post article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2019/03/26/teen-boys-rated-their-female-classmates-based-looks-girls-fought-back/?utm_term=.5a1716878ad0

One of the student leaders being interviewed and doing an awesome job:
https://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2019-04-03/can-toxic-high-school-culture-be-stopped-in-the-digital-age

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[i] (poster here) I went to the talk show link. God, Alfonso has a bright future as, I don't know, a future Tucker Carlson? But Delgado has a great response. But I just realized as a rep of the toxic right or maybe toxic libertarian Alfonso is really, really twisting the knife here. Makes Brett K look like. . . a Boy Scout.

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ALFONSO
Yes, Kojo, it's very good to hear you. And I love this topic. First I'm a long time listener, first time caller. I want to hit on two points. The first point is that the youth that apparently started the list was suspended.[b] I believe that was an egregious punishment for someone just creating a list. Two is the issue of self-esteem. You know, it's self-esteem. It's not, you know, what someone else thinks, because beauty is in the eye of the beholder. As well as how can we punish someone for having discernment in what they like? [/b]I knew of a list that went around when I was in high school. The girls used to grade us on looks, appearance, dress, you know, the whole bit. And we would do the same.

12:13:49

NNAMDI
And you thought that was a good thing?

12:13:54

ALFONSO
[b]Oh, yes, because I grew up in the day where everybody wasn't a winner. You know, it wasn't that you got a participation trophy. No. If you placed first, second, or third you got a trophy. You got a medal. You got an award. There are winners and losers. [/b]

12:14:09

NNAMDI
So those things that people can do absolutely nothing about like their looks, you felt it was okay to grade people and essentially discriminate against people, who were not as good looking as the people you graded highly. You thought that was okay?

12:14:25

ALFONSO
I think that looks go a long way to self-esteem. And this is where the parents come in.

[i]-- that last bit, in context, sure SOUNDS like it's on the parents to pass on good looks genes. How, pray tell, does ranking girls "go a long way to self-esteem" ??? [/i]

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