“The extent of the damage runs deep.” Yes, it does.
YouTube commentator Modern Primate has eloquently summed up the deep, societal issues surrounding the horrific rape of a teenage girl in Steubenville, Ohio and has a message for parents:
“Sure, we condemn rape (at least some of the time), but then as a society we go ahead and keep defending all of these behaviors that normalize the situations where rape is more likely to happen in the first place.”
Moms and dads, teachers and coaches to talk to their children about what really is. Teach them that being drunk does not imply consent, and engaging in any sort of sexual contact or penetration without consent is rape, that they are responsible for their own actions, and that nobody exists for anyone else’s use, pleasure, or amusement.
Thanks to UpWorthy for sharing this video.
Oh, yeah. What I do is what anybody can do, if they’ve a mind to. Not a big deal.
Julie, Among other things, I vote for the side which thinks we have–or should have, we obviously don’t–a government of laws, not of men. While republicans aren’t good on that, they’re light years ahead of dems. Many years ago, a republican representative from IL was found to have had sex with an underage female page. Guy’s last name was, iirc, Crane. He disappeared from public view. About the same time, a dem representative from MA was found to have had sex with an underage male page. That was Gerry Studds. He refused to resign, taunted Congress when they condemned his… Read more »
The world includes jocksniffers. See colleges and the revenue sports athletes and what the latter get away with, although that’s partly a matter of the revenue. The world includes people who will give their “betters”–more visible, hence superior or important–a break. And the betters give each others breaks the rest of society doesn’t get. See David Gregory not being prosecuted for what puts others in jail in DC. But they’re the little people whose SOs aren’t good buds with the prosecutor. But that’s not all of us, and let’s drop the “we” about it. Some of it we can’t stop,… Read more »
If we don’t approve, then what are we doing to push back against it, I think is the point of the “we” in the article. That we are all part of the system and to sit back and do nothing is complicity and collusion, and if you as an individual are NOT sitting back but fighting the good fight, then it doesn’t really apply to you. We, all of us, live in this country. And we all have the choice to tolerate the kind of things you describe in your comment, just let it go, that’s the way the world… Read more »
They reference her being drunk several times. It is unclear if she was given a drug, though it has been alleged and tipped off that a drug was used intentionally. Not that drinking is a reason to assault someone, but it highlights the intentionality of the act to give someone a drug that would effectively confuse memory, sedate the person, make the alcohol look like an excuse…etc. http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/01/local-leaks-tipsters-allege-steubenville-victim-was-drugged/60597/ More importantly, what these people did was even less about “consent” and understanding it, and bullying in its worst form. She broke up with the main fellow yes? And it was a… Read more »