Steubenville, Victim-Blaming, and Solutions to Rape
Over the weekend, two teenage boys who were popular football players from Steubenville, Ohio, were found guilty of raping a teenage girl last summer at a party. In a culture that portrays rapists as scary men in dark alleyways, the boys and many of their friends did not identify what happened as rape and even photographed and spread images of the crime on social media.
Within hours of the verdict, people began making death threats against the anonymous teenage victim, Jane Doe. The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation is now looking into the threats.
Sadly, I am not surprised.
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