TYT: Traci Lords' Steubenville - A Culture of Rape?

[caseymoz]

5. If it weren't for some vigilantes, this would have been ignored.

It was these vigilantes, Anonymous-Kightsec gaining information illegally who made this case something the national media couldn't ignore. These rapists would have gotten away with it. Outside of the Batman universe, that shouldn't be how justice works.

I just have another name for "a conspiratorial, protect-the-football team, small town culture." I call it a "rape culture" for short. Especially when these guys were known as "The Rape Crew" and the-protect-the-football-team, small town culture saw no need to get concerned about that, even after they bailed some of these guys before, and had a vice-reward system in place for them.

You don't think that networks like this exist in plenty of places, and not just in small towns? In fact, if get up to professional big leagues, there might even be a national network for them.

Please reread what I said. "rape culture" If you reread what I wrote, you'd notice that I said it doesn't effect every man, and it doesn't benefit all rapists. It's called a culture, not a network or conspiracy, which means it's not a united front. It's just people who think alike and who have similar interests when it comes to rape, and who can form into a network when one of their interests is threatened.

In other words, we're talking about the same thing with a different name. I'm never going to look the same way at a case of rape against an athlete where the charges are suddenly dropped or retracted. I'm going to look for the connections behind them.