Sextortion at Eisenhower High

November 16, 2009 9:07 AM

Sextortion at Eisenhower High."Last year, an awkward high school senior in Wisconsin went online, passed himself off as a flirtatious female student, and conned dozens of his male classmates into e-mailing him sexually explicit images of themselves. What he did next will likely send him to jail for a very long time."
posted by chunking express (22 comments total)

I think this is a double.
posted by no_moniker at 9:09 AM on November 16, 2009

A double.
posted by jedicus at 9:09 AM on November 16, 2009

Word. I was about due for a double.
posted by chunking express at 9:11 AM on November 16, 2009

Is it a double?
posted by fixedgear at 9:11 AM on November 16, 2009

Yup, both posts link to the GQ story from July.
posted by filthy light thief at 9:14 AM on November 16, 2009

What he did seems twice as bad the second time around.
posted by Sailormom at 9:20 AM on November 16, 2009 [1 favorite]

But they had it coming, falling for it a second time.
posted by hincandenza at 9:27 AM on November 16, 2009 [5 favorites]

See also this guy.
posted by zippy at 9:29 AM on November 16, 2009

a double, but a helluva good story.
posted by Lutoslawski at 9:35 AM on November 16, 2009

Double double, boil & trouble.
posted by scalefree at 9:38 AM on November 16, 2009

Well, I read it, and missed it the first time. Interesting story, but I hate the "we're going to make you know these people" type of writing.
posted by cjorgensen at 9:42 AM on November 16, 2009

a double, but a helluva good story.

....I have to wonder whether a story about teenage girls, instead of boys, being forced into sex would also be seen as "a hell of a good story" and notable enough for a double post, rather than just tut-tutted over and dismissed because it's "routine."

Mind you, NO ONE should be forced into sex. I'd just like to see stories about victims of BOTH genders given equal weight.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 9:43 AM on November 16, 2009

History's bound to repeat itself
posted by scrutiny at 9:43 AM on November 16, 2009

just tut-tutted over and dismissed because it's "routine."

because we do that a lot.
posted by scrutiny at 9:44 AM on November 16, 2009

I'm appalled.
Truly gobsmacked.
They let you write for GQ when you write like that?
And then they publish it?
posted by The Ultimate Olympian at 9:47 AM on November 16, 2009

....Sorry, I should clarify...

In my little tantrum above, I should have blamed the media itself for giving so much weight to this case, and not writing any scandalous-expose- articles of cases where girls were the victims instead. Snarking about the blue wasn't fair -- we can't post to the blue if the article doesn't exist.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 9:48 AM on November 16, 2009

Sure it's a double, but I welcome any chance to say "sextortion".

Sextortion
Sextortion
Sextortion

Man, that's fun!
posted by Horace Rumpole at 9:51 AM on November 16, 2009

This may be a double, but I'm going to post this anyway.

These were not wayward, damaged boys. They were athletes. Leaders. Popular, college-bound, bright-futured kids. Boys so unimpeachably straight that there was no way you could imagine them doing the things they were supposed to have done with Tony Stancl.

Everyone wondered, How could these boys let this happen?

At the courthouse, a middle-aged secretary in the clerk's office said, "When I was in high school, boys like Tony Stancl got the crap beaten out of them. Why didn't they beat the crap out of him?"

Another secretary said, "Maybe he was a cool kid."

The first secretary raised her eyebrows and touched her heavy gray turtleneck. "I saw his picture," she responded, "and he does not look cool to me."

And

The Stancl case was perhaps more horrifying because these boys were seduced by another boy—and because it triggered parents' preexisting fears about their kids' vulnerability to the predators they knew were lurking online.

And

A respected columnist at the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel suggested that true justice would come when Tony was turned over to the ultimate sex predators, prison rapists: "Has Stancl pondered the possibility his cellmates will have some schemes of their own to spring on him?"

The reporter writes his story to advocate beating up the faggots, equating queers with sexual predators, and suggesting they all deserve to be prison raped?

You could have chosen a better tone for your article. Stay classy, fuckwad.
posted by hippybear at 9:51 AM on November 16, 2009 [10 favorites]

Yeah, it's a very strange piece to say the least.
posted by chunking express at 9:53 AM on November 16, 2009

I'm not sure the author "equated" queers with sexual predators. The subject here happened to be both.
posted by cribcage at 9:58 AM on November 16, 2009

So... the jock let the extortionist suck him off and photograph it, even after he knew he was being played? That is very, very unusual.
posted by klanawa at 9:59 AM on November 16, 2009

Here is a link to make up for the double. This is awesome: Liu Bolin - The Invisible Man.
posted by chunking express at 10:04 AM on November 16, 2009