Roll Red Roll - Steubenville rape case

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It's on Netflix and i'm watching this right now. It's fucking shocking. I wonder if the town has learned anything? Those boys are sick and the people in the town protect them, writing it off as "something that happens everywhere", and "it never used to be a big deal". Fucking gross. They interview SO many people who jump to protect the rapist boys. It sickens me.

Anyone else seen this?

I mean the two girls interviewed saying that she shouldn't have been at the party in the first place. Dirty victim blamers.

Louise O'Neill wrote a great book Asking For It which explores this as fiction. I'd recommend it to anyone, particularly older teens.

which makes it doubly disheartening she wrote a twaw piece in an Irish paper in response to JKR

But you see it over and over again. I suppose its comforting to think your nearest and dearest aren't actively evil but rather misguided and easily led. Even victims believe it themselves. A double head fuck

Dr Jessica Taylor’s book ‘why women are blamed for everything...’ is basically an archive of this sort of bullshit.

I remember when this happened, and a load of young people started making small donations, from all across the USA, to a local rape crisis centre in her town in her honour. Found that really moving. They were trying to make her feel supported.

She, and her parents, were so brave to go through the reporting and prosecution. The easy thing to do would have been keep their heads down and let it all blow over, while she coped with the repercussions emotionally. But they didn't. They took it all the way, and changed the national conversation in the process.

She was a really brave girl, and I hope, these years on, she has a happy and thriving life, as she deserves.

I watched this a while ago. Deeply shocking, especially the teenage girls speaking at the beginning who were victim blaming her.

The outpouring of support where women spoke of their similar experiences was really moving but also anger inducing. There is clearly a big culture issue in that town (and elsewhere) around the football team, the young men and the way women are viewed and treated.

It's good teaching material in a way, how this case was exposed and how efforts were made to silence the women speaking up.

Courage Calls to Courage.

Women turn on other women because they tell themselves that, if it was the woman's own fault, then maybe they will be safe, if they just "behave right".

But the truth is that none of us are safe. Because of the choices of men and the protection and sanction their otherwise "upstanding" friends and acquaintances afford them.

Look at women's marches. So few men join. Banter in the office, so few men challenge. Girls dragged off to be raped at parties across the world. Almost no man ever lifts a finger to prevent it.