Magazine Called Out For Portraying Teen Who Shared Nude Photos Of His Girlfriend As Victim In Article

\u201cOne such student, Diego, has been shunned in the hallways and classrooms of his high school ever since word got out that he\u2019d shown off a nude photo of his girlfriend while drunk at a party https://t.co/cfaYcEpfWm\u201d

— The Cut (@The Cut) 1655814647

\u201cThe way this article frames Diego as the one we should feel sorry for is why the girls made a list. They're the ones looking out for their safety while adults who write for major publications are still trying to make you feel bad for the boys who harm them.\u201d

— Kat | Parrannnah on AO3 (@Kat | Parrannnah on AO3) 1655853550

\u201c"canceled at 17 \u2639\ufe0f\ud83d\ude22" and your subject showed someone else's nudes at a party...and got his name written on a bathroom wall in response...and you want me to feel bad for him\u201d

— ke (@ke) 1655864088

\u201cDude was my camp counselor, groomed me, took a lot of nude pictures of me and then showed them to random strangers at the bar. Would have been so sick if anything, at all, happened about that!!!!\u201d

— Italian Elon Musk (@Italian Elon Musk) 1655906121

\u201cthis is what makes it so difficult to talk about the punitive ways--esp online--we can shun and ostracize each other. a guy getting shunned by his peers for sharing nudes feels like a consequence. what happens to marginalized teens who are just being themselves is something else.\u201d

— Italian Elon Musk (@Italian Elon Musk) 1655906121

\u201cThe \u201cCanceled at 17\u201d piece actually made me physically angry. Framing assault, bullying, etc as a \u201cmistake\u201d and demanding that the abused be required to give their forgiveness \u2014 when the system has failed them & they had to take matters into their own hands \u2014 is absurd.\u201d

— Ruth Etiesit Samuel (@Ruth Etiesit Samuel) 1655828299

\u201cthe classic reaction to stories like this from the substackerati is to say "and people say cancel culture isn't real" but this entire story is just a gender- (and guilt) flipped version of behavior that has been happening for literally ever https://t.co/2IFJibHlgS\u201d

— Julia Carrie Wong (@Julia Carrie Wong) 1655820995

\u201cis shunning appropriate in all cases? no\nis shunning appropriate when a girl or boy engages in consensual sexual activity? no\nis shunning appropriate when a teen engages in non-consensual sexual activity? ACTUALLY SOMETIMES YES\u201d

— Julia Carrie Wong (@Julia Carrie Wong) 1655820995

\u201cthinking a lot about what the word beautiful is doing in this graf\u201d

— Julia Carrie Wong (@Julia Carrie Wong) 1655820995

\u201cWhy would I have compassion or understanding for a teenage boy showing nudes of his girlfriend? Or the other boys who had a group chat showing photos of girls? \u201cCanceled at 17?\u201d GIRL. PLEASE.\u201d

— Gabrielle Perry, MPH (@Gabrielle Perry, MPH) 1655826610

\u201cGoing through everyone who liked that Canceled at 17 story and doing ctrl+f on their page for \u2018West Elm Caleb\u2019\u201d

— Mike? (@Mike?) 1656004151

\u201cCanceled at 17 as a headline is sexual assault apologia designed to make the boy seem innocent or victim of unjustified online harassment when in reality he violated a woman's boundaries and committed a sadly common form of sexual violence towards her\u201d

— \ud83c\udf4b Nami Izunia \ud83c\udf4b \ud83c\udf48\ud83c\udf4f\ud83c\udf51\ud83e\udd5d\ud83c\udf50 (@\ud83c\udf4b Nami Izunia \ud83c\udf4b \ud83c\udf48\ud83c\udf4f\ud83c\udf51\ud83e\udd5d\ud83c\udf50) 1655917844

\u201cI tried reading that New York article "Canceled at 17" and I couldn't get through because the author went out of their way to repeatedly describe how physically attractive high schoolers were. Anyone else?\u201d

— The Leshy of Pennypack (@The Leshy of Pennypack) 1655937632

\u201cLook I\u2019m only five paragraphs deep into the Canceled At 17 piece but before we even get to the subject matter, this is not very well written is it????\u201d

— Jess McGuire (@Jess McGuire) 1655870267