Steubenville Verdict is in...

[kefkaownsall]

There is definately a rape culture look at Madcat's hell hole a guy got gangraped in and boys will be boys

[Scotsgit]

Is it wrong that I want them spend their sentences amongst the general population wing of the prison?

[ironbite]

Yeah let's shy away from that eh?

Also I bet dollars to donuts this isn't the first time they've done something like this.  Only the girl was local and knew if she pressed charges her life would be essentially over.

Ironbite-hope this causes other people to step up and raise their voices agains these monsters.

[Scotsgit]

Yeah let's shy away from that eh?

Also I bet dollars to donuts this isn't the first time they've done something like this.  Only the girl was local and knew if she pressed charges her life would be essentially over.

Ironbite-hope this causes other people to step up and raise their voices agains these monsters.

There's apparently another girl come forward to say it happened to her and she got the same treatment from the 'Police'.  I use the word 'Police' loosely in this case.

[Rabbit of Caerbannog]

Is it wrong that I want them spend their sentences amongst the general population wing of the prison?

I just wished that they would have been tried as adults, and gotten a far harsher sentence.

[Rabbit of Caerbannog]

Jesus christ, that's a half-assed apology if I've ever seen one. It comes off as "sorry we got caught." Fucking scumbags.

Actually Ma'lik Richmond's apology was even better:

"I had not intended to do anything like this. I’m sorry to put you through this."

See? He didn't intend to do anything like that. I mean, hasn't anyone else just tripped, fallen and accidentally raped someone? God, I hate it when that happens...

[Shane for Wax]

Yeah let's shy away from that eh?

Also I bet dollars to donuts this isn't the first time they've done something like this.  Only the girl was local and knew if she pressed charges her life would be essentially over.

Ironbite-hope this causes other people to step up and raise their voices agains these monsters.

I don't think scotsgit meant what you think he meant.

[Flying Mint Bunny!]

Jesus christ, that's a half-assed apology if I've ever seen one. It comes off as "sorry we got caught." Fucking scumbags.

Actually Ma'lik Richmond's apology was even better:

"I had not intended to do anything like this. I’m sorry to put you through this."

See? He didn't intend to do anything like that. I mean, hasn't anyone else just tripped, fallen and accidentally raped someone? God, I hate it when that happens...

Me too! I thought I was the only person who did that. 

Don't you just hate it as well when you forget to screen lock your phone and you end up accidently taking pictures and tweeting about it.

[Scotsgit]

Yeah let's shy away from that eh?

Also I bet dollars to donuts this isn't the first time they've done something like this.  Only the girl was local and knew if she pressed charges her life would be essentially over.

Ironbite-hope this causes other people to step up and raise their voices agains these monsters.

I don't think scotsgit meant what you think he meant.

Yeah, I didn't mean I want them raped, more introduced to the fact that they're not the tough guys they think they are.

[Captain Jack Harkness]

Okay, take two.

What I should have done the first time is asked for more exposition.  I got that in IRC yesterday.  Now, onto my thoughts.

I think this whole "coverup" business speaks about a larger problem in our society.  It's not just this town that messed up.  The Catholic Church and the Jewish Orthodoxy have problems with abuse too, although it's with boys.  Society really needs to learn how to handle these kinds of problems.

[Art Vandelay]

Okay, take two.

What I should have done the first time is asked for more exposition.  I got that in IRC yesterday.  Now, onto my thoughts.

I think this whole "coverup" business speaks about a larger problem in our society.  It's not just this town that messed up.  The Catholic Church and the Jewish Orthodoxy have problems with abuse too, although it's with boys.  Society really needs to learn how to handle these kinds of problems.

Oh, but see, after the steel mill closed, a half decent high school football team is the only thing this town has left. You can't take that away from them just because of one itty bitty case of gang rape. Did not a wise man once say that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few?

Besides, it's not like locking up their star players is going to magically un-rape the girl, so what's the bloody point?

[Damen]

To the "news" commentators lamenting how sad it is that these rapists' lives are ruined, and to the people harassing the victim, and to the people blaming the victim and to the rape apologists, I have but one thing to say:

[Scotsgit]

Okay, take two.

What I should have done the first time is asked for more exposition.  I got that in IRC yesterday.  Now, onto my thoughts.

I think this whole "coverup" business speaks about a larger problem in our society.  It's not just this town that messed up.  The Catholic Church and the Jewish Orthodoxy have problems with abuse too, although it's with boys.  Society really needs to learn how to handle these kinds of problems.

Oh, but see, after the steel mill closed, a half decent high school football team is the only thing this town has left. You can't take that away from them just because of one itty bitty case of gang rape. Did not a wise man once say that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few?

Besides, it's not like locking up their star players is going to magically un-rape the girl, so what's the bloody point?

And everybody knows that if you play sports you can do no wrong:  George Best may have been an alcoholic who beat up his wife, but he scored goals so that apparently makes everything OK.  Hell, premier league footballers can act really despicably towards women, but if the goals keep coming in, then the fans and the pundits think that they're the greatest people in the world.

Seriously, when the fuck is are these parts of society going to work out that the ability to kick, throw or do whatever to a ball does not give someone a free pass to act like a total and utter cunt?

[Meshakhad]

If I were another school in the area, I'd refuse to play with Steubenville.

[Søren]

Have the media outlets released any press statements regarding the sympathetic spin to the rapists and the public outcry?