A group of girls at an Australian high school have created a group called “Club 21,” which ranks girls on such qualities as their attractiveness and lack of gag reflex:

Year 11 girls from the co-educational St Patrick’s College in the central Queensland city of Mackay are ranked according to looks, weight and their popularity with boys.

Members of the elite club, dubbed “Club 21” or “Big 21”, parade their ranking from one to 21 on their wrists.

Like grading beef. How precious.

The skinnier and prettier the girl, the higher her rank.

One respondent to an internet forum on the issue said: “Ugly girls need not apply.”

Another wrote: “They are a group of year 11 girls at St Pats who think they are top but really pathetic sociopathic sluts.”

“Sociopathic Sluts” sounds like a Russ Meyer movie. In high school there was a group of girl called “The Seven” who named themselves after the Seven Deadly Sins. We wonder, in retrospect, who’s teacup Yorkie one had to burn to avoid being Sloth of Gluttony.

Being a homely teenager has its perks, if only because it forcibly excludes you from the more toxic elements clouding teen girl culture. You don’t have to pay membership fees where the currency happens to be your dignity and you don’t have to worry about losing status points because you didn’t have any to begin with. And there’s all that about developing a personality and opinions and whatever.

School clique banned ‘ugly’ girl [Brisbane Times]