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| Also listed in: 2007 Social Capital | Campus Progress Blog |
“Late Night Shots is herding the next generation of assholes through Georgetown bars. And you're not invited.”
This is the clever sub-head for the Washington City Paper’s recent takedown of DC’s primarily-conservative drinking/mating site, Late Night Shots. According to WCP, Late Night Shots is a social networking site that has created an insular community of DC’s elite trust fund babies who log on several times a day to dish about last night’s sloppy hookups, rank which DC bars are party-worthy, and rate each other’s pics and tag them with snarky comments like “Cute? She looks like a dressed corpse."
And like LNS’s most popular bar, Smith Point (which boasts 2950 “Regulars” on LNS), the site is “Invite Only.” Last fall, I got invited to Late Night Shots and joined, thinking it was a pretty hilarious website (especially if you ignore the blatant homophobic and racist commentary). My involvement has been lackluster thus far and I only have five “Drinking Buddies” (so much for a progressive infiltration), but I found the City Paper article wildly entertaining.
The comment board under the article on the City Paper website is overwhelmed with furious bluebloods and gleeful hipsters taking jabs at each other (what’s next? A brawl over 18th Street? The Socs/Greasers analogy works pretty well here). The LNS site is also ablaze with discussions titled “AngelaValdezMyspace WHORE” and “Angry Hipsters Take on LNS”, among the regular posts like “cutie at third edition last night”.
From what I gather, the main reason for anger among the LNS-faithful is that Angela Valdez, the author of the WCP article, used the real names of LNS’s most popular, which has allegedly led to stern talks from bosses and parents alike. What do you think? Was Valdez out of line or do these silver-spooners deserve to be taken down a peg? Do you even care?
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I especially love MGR's: "At the end of the day, they hate because they are jealous. Jealous of our priviledge, jealous of our economic success, jealous of our fun. I hate to say it but they hate us for the same reasons the terrorists do. Perhaps that's why they all want us to withdraw from Iraq and hand victory to al Qaeda on a silver platter? Ok, I better stop before I go off on a major tangent/rant here."
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Late Night Shots is so *hilariously bad* precisely because it's composed of people who wouldn't be invited into the Capital Club (Link.
You should send us all LNS invites so that a real infiltration can begin :)
In terms of publishing these peoples' names, I see no reason to protect these LNSers. They're not victims; they spoke to Valdez with full knowledge that she was a journalist writing a story on LNS for City Paper, and they still spoke to her as if she were a prostitute. They are well-off, educated young professionals who I'm sure interact with the media in some way or another constantly, and they should have known better. It's not Angela Valdez's problem these people said and did things that make them look like assholes - not to their friends, not in private, but to an outside observer, a journalist.