http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/03/15/texts-and-testimony-from-the-steubenville-rape-trial Comments On: Texts and Testimony from the Steubenville Rape Trial by Cienna Madrid en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Wed, 22 May 2013 19:30:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by J.R.]]> Sat, 16 Mar 2013 12:13:39 -0700 The Stranger
But to the story at hand, I can tell you one big reason why this happened. It's called small-town sports. I grew up in such a town. They are small, isolated and, as Peter Gabriel says, "they think so small, they use small words."

Their lives are about whatever high school sport is going on at the moment (but primarily basketball and football). They spend huge amounts of education dollars on sports and Friday night? That's entertainment night for small towns across America. That's why these football guys are so protected.

The witnesses? Either too scared to speak up (and get attacked by the town) or too scared to hurt the team. But they all get to live with themselves because, at the end of the day, NO one would have wanted this to happen to their sister or daughter.

And, there's still the issue of whether she got herself drunk or if she was drugged.
Posted by westello]]> Sat, 16 Mar 2013 10:47:46 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Buttercup]]> Sat, 16 Mar 2013 00:47:19 -0700 The Stranger
That's a good troll post. A bit ridiculous but a good troll anyways.
Posted by TheMisanthrope]]> Fri, 15 Mar 2013 19:01:29 -0700 The Stranger Daily Kos left enough for you? The left did not celebrate Laura Ingram being called a slut, as you suggest.
Posted by Free Lunch]]> Fri, 15 Mar 2013 18:56:26 -0700 The Stranger Posted by GermanSausage]]> Fri, 15 Mar 2013 18:12:13 -0700 The Stranger Posted by JonnoN]]> Fri, 15 Mar 2013 18:09:54 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Phoebe in Wallingford]]> Fri, 15 Mar 2013 18:08:55 -0700 The Stranger Posted by GermanSausage]]> Fri, 15 Mar 2013 18:05:32 -0700 The Stranger
Where was the outrage when Ed Shultz called Laura Ingraham a slut on national TV?

I know it's a stretch to compare these, but the left cannot in good conscience celebrate depravity when it affects their adversaries but take the high road with innocent young girls.
Posted by Phoebe in Wallingford]]> Fri, 15 Mar 2013 17:38:03 -0700 The Stranger
Anon Trolls do better than you.

Ass.
Posted by TheMisanthrope]]> Fri, 15 Mar 2013 17:32:05 -0700 The Stranger That's relatively low on my list of bad-shit-that-can-happen.

Probably true. You've probably met the poor woman who gave birth to you.
Posted by seatackled]]> Fri, 15 Mar 2013 17:20:53 -0700 The Stranger
That's relatively low on my list of bad-shit-that-can-happen.
Posted by fetish]]> Fri, 15 Mar 2013 17:17:18 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Shibari-san]]> Fri, 15 Mar 2013 17:08:07 -0700 The Stranger Posted by venomlash]]> Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:55:03 -0700 The Stranger Posted by MacCrocodile]]> Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:47:19 -0700 The Stranger
Posted by jaansdornea]]> Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:43:39 -0700 The Stranger Posted by chaseacross]]> Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:26:58 -0700 The Stranger or perhaps they were raised to believe that women really are humanish playthings

I really don't understand why you ask this question, when every shred of evidence about the town, the football program, the kind of adults these boys were around points to the fact that this is precisely what happened.
Posted by Some Old Nobodaddy Logged In]]> Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:15:25 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Rapey rape!]]> Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:10:50 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Rapey rape!]]> Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:06:40 -0700 The Stranger Posted by sperifera]]> Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:59:53 -0700 The Stranger