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Re: Steubenville High School football players found guilty of raping 16-year-old girl
You have to watch Candy Crowley, Poppy Harlow, and all sorts of other news people (on CNN, Fox, and MSNBC) show sympathy for the poor guilty boys with no word for the actual victim. And FYI, Fox, CNN, and I think even MSNBC actually allowed themselves to release publicly the name of the victim. Fox had said earlier that it was not going to release even the names of the perpetrators because all the parties were underage, but later they released the name of the victim. It is against the law for the news to release publicly the name of a rape victim, at least a 16 year old one, but they all did it because they did not actually care. They wouldn't get in trouble. Just like football players wouldn't get in trouble. Because the rape of a girl by a boy is ordinarily not treated as that serious. That's why there are police departments in many places that treat a victim who reports the crime as if she were a whore. That is rape culture.
Which is not what the culture is in any Western nation. Maybe "rape culture" exists in third-world backwaters like India and Congo. I do not see violence against women normalized or excused in the American, Canadian, Australia, or European media, though.
Rape is considered the most heinous crime by the majority of the population, as evidence by the hysteria and hyperbole surrounding the average rape case as well as calls for excessive punishments, such as "hang them" and "cut off their balls and stuff it in their mouths". Violence against women in general is considered unforgivable, while much violence against men is considered trivial and sometimes even amusing. Anyone who believes rape-culture exists truly is blind, brainwashed, mendacious, or just plain dumb.
You have to watch Candy Crowley, Poppy Harlow, and all sorts of other news people (on CNN, Fox, and MSNBC) show sympathy for the poor guilty boys with no word for the actual victim. And FYI, Fox, CNN, and I think even MSNBC actually allowed themselves to release publicly the name of the victim. Fox had said earlier that it was not going to release even the names of the perpetrators because all the parties were underage, but later they released the name of the victim. It is against the law for the news to release publicly the name of a rape victim, at least a 16 year old one, but they all did it because they did not actually care. They wouldn't get in trouble. Just like football players wouldn't get in trouble. Because the rape of a girl by a boy is ordinarily not treated as that serious. That's why there are police departments in many places that treat a victim who reports the crime as if she were a whore. That is rape culture.