After the birth of DD2 last week, I decided to set up a Facebook account, so I could share details with my family in the U.S. easily. My account is private, so while none of the friends of my FB friends can see my account, I can see some of their theirs (if it isn't private).
I was on FB late last night, posting a current picture of DD2, and I noticed one of my cousins in the States had made the comment "oh FFS, the victim is NEVER at fault" in a post. This immediately grabbed my attention, so I wanted to see if I was able to see the whole post/status she was responding too, which I could and not surprisingly it was in response to a status someone had made about Serena's comments. (The original status was criticising Serena, my cousin's response was to someone else's comment which had said they agreed with Serena).
Anyway, part of me wishes I hadn't been able to read all the posts though, as some of the comments made my heart sink. Particularly disturbing comments were:
"If you don't want to be raped, you need to act like a lady when you're out."
"If you act like you've got loose morals, guys will pick on that, and see you as fair game."
"You have to act in the way you want to be treated. Act like a slut, you'll be treated as one."
"What those guys did was wrong, but you know, the victim is equally responsible for acting like a ho."
The most disturbing thing is all of these comments were made by teenage girls.