...WTF.

[ibonekoen]

Originally posted by lavenderfrost at ...WTF.

Well, there goes my good mood for the day.

NYTimes, the bastion of quality reporting, reported on the gang-rape of an 11 year-old girl in Texas  that's led to charges against 18 high-school boys so far - all well and good so far, right?  Shit like this NEEDS publicity to raise awareness. 

Only problem is, they repeated - without refutation or critical commentary - the claims that the girl brought the rape on herself because of the way she was dressed.

Choice Quotes (No cut b/c everyone needs to see this - DEAL.):

“It’s just destroyed our community,” said Sheila Harrison, 48, a hospital worker who says she knows several of the defendants. “These boys have to live with this the rest of their lives.”  As opposed to the victim, who's gonna bounce back lickety-fucking-split, right?

Residents in the neighborhood where the abandoned trailer stands — known as the Quarters — said the victim had been visiting various friends there for months. They said she dressed older than her age, wearing makeup and fashions more appropriate to a woman in her 20s. She would hang out with teenage boys at a playground, some said.  TOTALLY BEGGING FOR IT.

THIS IS RAPE CULTURE, PEOPLE.

Now, what's being said and done in this community is bad enough, but the NY Times should be fucking ashamed of themselves right now.

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Comments

[heartsick]

I read that yesterday. I don't even. Yeah, because dressing older for your age is definitely the same as asking 18 people to fuck you against your will, right? What the god damned hell.

To make things better, I found that article right about I found one about how MY STATE is trying to make it a criminal offense to have a miscarriage, punishable by death. They want to investigate every miscarriage to see if it could have been prevented. Same guy would also like to make abortion punishable by the death penalty. Oh, and he wants to make it illegal to call rape victims "victims." Instead, they should be called "accusers."

[ibonekoen]

...... WTF? I can't even form a more coherent response beyond that. Holy shit, has everybody been drinking the crazy kool-aid lately?

[rjchasez.livejournal.com]

MY STATE is trying to make it a criminal offense to have a miscarriage, punishable by death. They want to investigate every miscarriage to see if it could have been prevented.
...WHAT THE HELL?!? Are you kidding me? That is just... What the hell is wrong with that guy? 99.9 percent of the women in this world have miscarriages because they are ILL or having something severely wrong with them. My cousin had a total of FIVE before she was finally able to have her oldest daughter, and then had two others between the births of her two youngest children. That is insane!

Remind me not to visit your state. I'd hunt that guy down and whip his ignorant ass.

[ibonekoen]

I'd hunt that guy down and whip his ignorant ass.

I second this!

[heartsick]

I sincerely doubt it will pass, because they tried the same thing in Utah and it was shot down. It just makes me want to throw up that people are even remotely considering it.

[opheliassister.livejournal.com]

...THE FUCK?

[ibonekoen]

IKR? X(