“We have to make this girl look like a slut.”
C*nt – The Movie (DVD)

At what point do we take a good, long look at our youth and start making the long overdue connection between what they are absorbing through media and technology, the way this has shaped the way they exist, the context as set up by the parental controls in their life, and what they are actually doing?

As we all know, the country has been rocked this week by the production and distribution of a DVD made by a group of boys, featuring scenes where they harass a homeless man, beat up another they identify as being a “loser”, and then sexually assault a mentally challenged 16 year old girl (before urinating on her, and setting fire to her hair). But will we really embrace the reality of this situation, or simply respond by looking for avenues of blame that absolve us from more pertinent social questions raised by the issue?

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