QUEERTY SELECTS — There are two news articles we are obsessing over this week, and so should you. This is significant, because we spend most of our day reading absolute garbage. Usually in the form of emails from our boss. But not this week!
Because we’ve got our eyes set on this mind-blowing gaze into Wisconsin teen Tony Stancl, who conned other boys at his high school to text him naked photos of themselves by pretending to be a girl, and then used those pics to blackmail them into giving him the sex. You’ve read about him here before; now learn his fate, and what happened with his 30+ victims.
And the second story we are basically skipping work to finish is the tale of Huffington Post writer Carol Anne Burger (pictured, left), who almost certainly killed her software exec wife Jessica Kalish by stabbing her with a screwdriver. Two hundred twenty-two times. Then she killed herself when police grew, uh, suspicious.
If you’ve got an extended lunch break, dive in.
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galefan2004
Creative use of technology.
And…
Damn she must have been really pissed at the girl friend.
noah
There are going to be a lot of happy tops in that cellblock when they see Taleon showing up on the scene . . .
galefan2004
@noah: Prison gay isn’t like normal gay. Most of the tops in there have some sort of sadistic thing going on, so they would rather break in a straight dude than actually do it with one that might actually want it.
Fitz
@noah: I have actually worked at 3 prisons.. It’s not really like that. he is young, and (for Prison) decent looking… he will be bought, and be one man’s property. Forced to grow his hair long, forced to dress like a girl as much as possible. Will have to eat with the other bitches. Will not be allowed to talk to “the men”, will get his ass beat down by the other identified “Bitches” who see him as a threat. The pass-around gang rape thing is a punishment for an offender. But his life is over, make no mistake.
Helga von ornstein
@Fitz: I’ve heard the stories about prison and none are pretty. LOL I do hope you are wrong for his sake but I bet you are right.
AlwaysGay
@Fitz: Did you do anything to stop the oppression of gay prisoners? Prison proves my point how all systematic forms of discrimination are rooted in heterosexuality. Gender hierarchy = heterosexuality. Sexuality hierarchy = heterosexuality. Race hierarchy = heterosexuality.
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1) How are kids ‘mature’ enough to take and send explicit pictures of themselves, but not mature enough to say “Big deal. What the fuck?” if someone threatens to show their friends/parents? What kind of punishment from parents (or social ostracization from peers?) are they fearing for engaging in relatively normal (though technologically advanced) forms of adolescent behavior?
2) How can an adolescent, who was willing to send explicit self-pics of himself to an unknown person he believed was a peer, be ashamed of being ‘exposed’ to friends? What is the psychological dynamic there? If the kid knows that other kids in his approximate peer group are doing this, why wouldn’t it be a badge of ‘cool’ to be doing the same thing?
3) Is adolescent sexuality so fluid that otherwise heterosexually-inclined boys can be so easily manipulated into having sex repeatedly with a guy to whom they are not attracted? Or was Stancl targeting guys whom he had reason to believe would be ‘curious’, ‘amenable’, ‘accommodating’, or ‘willing’?
Fitz
@AlwaysGay: Everything I could.. which honestly wasn’t much. The CA prisons are run by two powerful thug organizations: The Prison gangs and the Prison Guards. Health Care workers have amazingly little power.
Fitz
@Helga von ornstein: My heart actually goes out to him, as evil as he acted. He doesn’t stand a chance in there. If he has some family with money, maybe they can put enough $$ on his books so that he can buy some safety… for a while. But I sincerely doubt that he will live long enough to serve his full term.
bobito
Reading the Tony Stancl article, I was really offended by the Minnesota “respected journalist” who was so happy about the fact that the kid would be getting raped in jail, which would be “real justice”. Yeah, he was a sexual predator of shocking proportion for such a young guy, but every one of his victims made the choice to have sex with him rather than face the consequences of having sent naked photos to somebody they didn’t know. And now, because of the nature of his crime, his jail sentence will mean he is being sentenced to repeated rape, and probably death.
Sorry, I deplore what he did, but I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.
I wonder what the “respected journalist” would think of spending taxpayers’ dollars on sex education for teenagers that involved internet awareness instead of abstinence only training…
galefan2004
@bobito: What I really don’t get is the hatred that seems to come from the article. It would be interesting to see if the same amount of hatred would have been directed at this kid if his victims were female.
bobito
@galefan2004: you shittin’ me, man? The kid would be idolized as a mega-stud! (Well, yeah, they’d have to demonize him for the 13-year-olds, but deep down inside… they’d be foaming with jealousy)
Mitch
I hear that some of the “young boys” this dude “tricked” were football players, hi-profile class-mates, etc. I can’t imagine why these sorts of guys wouldnt fight back!!
But I CAN imagine the conversation some might have had:
Son: Uh, Dad, can I talk to you?
Dad: Sure son, what’s on your mind?
Son: Dad, I was one of the guys Tony Stancl blackmailed.
Dad: What the fuck??!! WHY??? You have ruined my life!!!
Son: Dad….I’m sorry…
Dad: You have just ruined my name, young man! Everybody is gonna know that my son got fucked by a greasy Mexican!
Son: Dad…it wasn’t my fault!
Dad: Jesus! Why couldnt it have been Zac Efron….or one of those vampire dudes in those movies??? Why…WHY did it hafta be a fat, ugly taco-bender with acne?? Do you know what this is gonna do to my job???
Son: Sorry, Dad…next time I’ll try for Brad Cooper….