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A 16-year-old girl was stabbed last night at 1024 Kenyon Street NW at about 11 p.m., WJLA reports, and the attack stemmed from a feud between two "girl gangs" who were upset about something one of them posted on a MySpace page, according to D.C. Council member Jim Graham. The victim, Graham says, is thankfully expected to recover. The incident is sure to prompt several infuriating "Are Your Children Safe on MySpace??!!!" stories on the local news stations tonight, as there's nothing broadcasters love more than blaming the medium of the Internet for bad behavior. It would certainly be refreshing to see a report on this story based on the facts: teenage girls are often mean to each other, with or without social networking web sites.
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Does anyone know about the armed robbery on 13th NW last night in Columbia Heights? The helicopters
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Girl Fight!
The incident is sure to prompt several infuriating "Are Your Children Safe on MySpace??!!!"
Should read:
"Why are Your Children Still Using MySpace??!!!"
Back in my day, girls used to fight over important things like their babydaddies and the binomial theorum and my penis. Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
I'd like to know what Jim Graham is doing checking out the Myspace pages of 16-year-old girls.
I AM SURE that it completely innocent.
I'd like to know why he's not checking out the Myspace pages of 16-year-old boys. Heh Heh Heh. You know I am!
How do I get that Jonas Brothers song to automatically play on my MySpace page, like Jim Graham's?
Ah, Myspace, the old scary mall of social networking sites. You know you're ghetto if you resolve online flames with a shank.
After the first comment thread dispute on DCist results in a stabbing I am so moving on to whatever upscale site the kids are using tomorrow, assuming I'm not involved in the stabbing.
E-beef has turned into street-beef. Can't we grab a jumbo slice and talk about it like civilized ghettobirds?
In my day we just made the other girl cry and that was that.
"Authorities say girl gangs can be dangerous. "
no.fucking.shit.
Glad to see teenagers utilizing the power of social networks.
Not a big deal, but what is with the scare quotes around girl gangs? Are girl gangs a figment of the liberal imagination, like gay marriage?
Seriously. I always thought the Pink Ladies were great.
WTF man? No love for Jeff?
The incident is sure to prompt several infuriating "Are Your Children Safe on MySpace??!!!" stories
And the answer to those stories is: No. No, they are not.
They're as safe as they would be in any other social situation, given that they've been raised properly and taught to not ghettofight and/or stab each other.
From a limited Google search, it seems you are the first person ever to use "ghettofight" as a verb. To you I tip my hat!
I think the Mary Kay ladies are the most dangerous girl gang of all...
Watch out for the Red Hat Society, they are the OG of girl gangs.
Stay the hell away from the Golden Girls too!
I'm personally going to campaign for the reinstatement of the Lizzies gang charter.
And that goes double for the Golden Shower Girls. Pee. You.
Also...there's no such thing as 10th and Kenyon. Just saying saying.
to quote the Hall Monitors, "they don't make girls like they used to"