[conservative in nyc]

it seems, sometimes, that somewhere down the line we lost the vital concept that boys who cry when they get hurt playing rough boy games are p***ies.

The boy in question here got beaten "battered" by a girl, if you believe the story. And today, they're not p***ies, they're crime victims.

There has to be more to this story.

[King Prout]

There has to be more to this story.

the parents smell money, the lure of the 15 minutes of fame, the existence of an ambitious prosecutor or ambulance-chasing lawyer...

there are a goodly number of possibilities.

however, if our society had not lost the vital concept of boyish toughness, this nonsense would have been laughed scornfully out of existence.