“'I don’t think there was ever a time in high school where I hooked up with someone because I wanted to,' she says. 'I just felt like I should want to.'' MsReads via Narratively
. FSL? Taylor had no idea what the parent was talking about, but she knew someone who would: the varsity football player who was set to perform the part of the “composite asshole” in the assembly the very next day.
was published — without any mention of the brewing scandal. But behind the scenes, the teachers were on the hunt. Principal Kitchens reminded parents that this concept “was not unique to Piedmont High,” while reassuring them that it should not “deter our responsibilities as an educational community to address it.”
James read the text with consternation, but also with a newfound clarity. He didn’t feel deserving of this boy’s scorn. Besides, he had no energy to care about him. He pictured instead his parents’ faces, their surprise and disappointment rising to the surface like oil. “The accusations, moralizing, minimizing, finger wagging, and fist slamming have damaged the reputations of children, their parents and our educational community,” wrote one mother on Patch. “It is incredibly SAD that PHS students are most concerned about how this might affect their college applications and NOT that they regret harming another child,” countered another.
Finally, she took issue with what she viewed as the administration’s attempt to take the easy way out. “This is a larger issue than just FSL,” she declared. “These boys do not deserve to be vilified with factual fallacy for an environment of which they are merely a small product.” And as the tech bubble continues to price Bay Area natives out of their homes and whiten the racial and ethnic makeup of the city, the status quo is changing — or not changing so much as spreading. “The types of people moving to the Bay Area are affluent, white-collar professionals, and the microcosm of Piedmont could be the new makeup of Oakland and Berkeley,” Caroline says. “This could become more pervasive, what happens with too much money and entitlement.
Once the news cycle moved on, daily life at Piedmont High proceeded much as it had before the scandal. We kept drinking raspberry Smirnoff mixed with Simply pink lemonade and going to parties. We memorized the prologue toin Middle English. The students of the class of 2013 submitted their college applications. There were rumblings that some teachers had withdrawn football players’ letters of recommendation, but those were just rumors.
Then, in July of 2020, a few years after most of the class of 2013 had finished college, an anonymous Instagrambegan posting crowdsourced accounts of rape, sexual assault and harassment at Piedmont High, sometimes calling out the perpetrators by name. Boys leapt to each other’s defense in the comments — which, paradoxically, succeeded in identifying some of them. Parents threatened lawsuits.
“We never thought it was wrong, or demeaning women,” says Lucas, James’ football teammate. “Just horsing around, being dudes. But knowing what I know now, I would never have participated.” Still, he’s adamant that the conflation of FSL with rape culture is false. “Piedmont wasn’t the type of school … ” His eyes widen in concern. “No one would have supported anything even close to an unwanted hookup.
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