I stayed up all night screen-grabbing tweets that joked about raping and urinating on a girl they thought might be dead. Welcome to Steubenville.
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This, right here, is what we talk about when we talk about “rape culture,” that a group of men should be struck senseless in the face of rape, rather than being moved to step in or get to safety and call the police.
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As Indian protesters demand justice for a 23-year-old student who died after being brutally gang-raped on a bus in the Capital, feminist-writer-journalist-teacher Anna MM Vetticad tells us that the city’s public spaces remain shockingly unsafe for women.
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Please, men and women of the world, watch this, and then share. Let's create a world where the Steubenville gang rape cannot happen again.
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The tensions over whether the victim’s name should be revealed, both in India and beyond, highlight ongoing debates about privacy for victims, especially in the wake of a death, when victims can’t speak for themselves.
