Why do I read this?

http://www.pennyandaggie.com/

Why do I do this to myself? The only person this comic really focuses on is the wicked yet beautiful Penny. I like the character of Aggie, but every time I read this I feel like I'm slowly driving past a horrible car wreck on one of the massively busy highways around Philly.

Rubbernecking the horror that is (was) high school.

Is there something about teenage hormones that makes people inherently evil, or is it something about our society, or the assembly-line-factory-worker-training-inspired set up of schools everwhere? Is it just what happens when you shove that many teens into a small space and force them to deal with only each other a precious few people ouitside of their age range?

Shudder

Every time I look at it I get this sick feeling of memory combined with resignation that nothing has changed over the past few decades. Torture thru talk is the reality of women everywhere, and the vicious basics are still a core portion of the curriculum in our lovely school system.

So, why do i keep reading it?

I guess I just keep wishing that Aggie will come back - I remember her from my own years in Hell High...fondly.