This post
on the Gaetz thread made me think of an old high school story.
A group of varsity football players (this was a class C school, about 70 - 80 students per year, so not huge like from the TV shows) started a thing my freshman year that they called “thwacking.” They’d attack and hold down a JV player in the locker room, and take turns “thwacking” him slapping him in the face with their flaccid penises.
One of the victims, a sophomore at the time and a friend of mine, told his parents, who then told the school. It made the local news but I can’t find it anymore, but our school got a bad name.
But the WORST part is, the school held meetings to figure out what to do about it, and it was utter weak sauce. The perpetrators were suspended for maybe 10 days, but then they were still allowed to play basketball and then baseball in the following seasons!!!
And the victim who came forward ended up having to change schools.
I remember I ran track with the ringleader’s girlfriend the following spring, and when I asked her about what she thought of his actions she seemed utterly unphased. An early lesson in toxic masculinity and utter lack of consequences.
