Girls suing the school argued that at least 59 girls were traumatized by “an extended, catastrophic institutional failure.” They claimed that they “were forced to go to high school while ‘deepfake’ nude images of them were circulating within the school community,” and that appallingly, Lindsay Deibler-Wallace, assistant head of Upper School, took no action to protect them after telling parents that “boys will be boys.”
The victims alleged that the school never suspended the students even after “the LCDS upper school was in a state of acute panic and disruption related to the AI-generated images.” Instead, the school allegedly discouraged girls from going to police, while withholding information from parents and obstructing efforts to investigate the distribution of AI-generated child sex abuse materials (CSAM), such as by refusing to respond to detectives seeking a yearbook photo for comparison.
Two male students have since pleaded guilty to 59 felony counts of sexual abuse of children, and their victims are hoping the court will rule that LCDS was required to report the incident to police, both by law and by “reasonable institutional practice.”
I hate that phrase so much. I appreciate the “guys being guys” crowd trying to reclaim it with videos of dudes being silly and harmless, but it won’t ever be enough until the culture changes.
“Boys will be boys” is so maddening to me because not only is it a way to shirk your own responsibility for teaching them to act better, but you are knowingly reinforcing the behavior. They always say, “they’ll grow out of it” but I don’t think the people saying that even believe it. Either it’s men who know firsthand they didn’t grow out of it but need to pretend they disapprove of the behavior, or it’s women who have turned a blind eye to their brothers and husbands after having to live through it.
Yeah they grow out of running around and playing in the mud and tracking it in, they grow out of food fights, they grow out of stuff like that. They dont grow out of sexual predation and/or abuse, that’s infuriatingly unacceptable and they probably learned it from some fucked up parent.