Gender Equality Advances Another Step

Four North Texas high school varsity cheerleaders put human feces on a pizza during a cheerleading camp and then returned the pizza to a rival high school squad, claiming the rivals had done the disgusting deed, school district officials confirmed this week. . .

Such behavior, once unthinkable, is increasing, said Jack Levin, director of The Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict at Northestern University in Boston.

"This is not just an aberration. This is a trend that we're seeing nationally," he said. "Teenage girls, they're kind of where boys were in the 1960s. They're no longer just pulling hair. ... They're more likely to do something anti-social, violent or even disgusting to gain attention and impress their friends, and that was simply not the case 20 years ago."

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