Once upon a time, back in high school, I knew this girl. She was nice, smart, not all that pretty & maybe a little nerdy. Not one of the “popular girls”. There were also these “bad boys”, mostly posers but a few of them were real thugs, & they often teased this girl and others like her. Imagine our surprise when one day I saw this girl hanging out with the bad boys! Rumors started to go around, that she was not so “nice” anymore, that she was putting out just to be popular.

We felt sorry for her, that she felt she needed to degrade herself by hanging out with these jerks, that she had no self-respect, that she was putting out for them, just to feel liked. We warned her that these boys had used other girls like her before. As you would expect, one day her new friends dumped her. They were very cruel about it too. She learned theses so called friends were just using her to get what they wanted, and having a joke at her expense. When they were finished with her, they threw her away. She sat alone in the cafeteria, hurried off to the library. Soon she moved away to another school.

I think her name was Robert Spencer, or something like that.