The rape lasted for hours with the perpetrators driving the young girl from party to party, raping her, assaulting her, and filming
themselves doing so.
The girl was victimized for a third time when CNN gave sympathetic coverage to the convictions of the rapists.
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And now the girl is being victimized again as she and her family receive death threats via Twitter and Facebook following the conviction of the perpetrators.
This
is neither the first time nor will it be the last time (sadly) that a woman
is raped and then photos of the incident posted on the internet as some
sort of sick memento of the occasion. Rapes happen everyday in our so called civilized society and many of them go unreported.
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What
this incident (and the many others that go unreported) says is that
western society is not evolving when it comes to misogynist and degrading
attitudes towards women, especially as it relates to teenagers and young men (and it doesn't matter how young they were, in the eyes of the
law they were old enough to know better).
At best society is stagnant and at worst it is devolving, and the pervasiveness of modern technology has a part to play in this ([1] [2]). It shows that the
veneer of social civility that is trumpeted by western society (i.e. the sort
of things that happen in PUT NAME OF
DEVELOPING COUNTRY HERE would never happen in PUT NAME OF WESTERN DEVELOPED COUNTRY HERE) is thin as paper and it
takes very little for the social contract that permits civilized society
to exist to break down. The fact that so called civilized people stood by and let it happen is
also an indication of the existence of evil in society that goes willfully
ignored or unnoticed.
Our society is sick and it is getting sicker because of
the neanderthal attitudes about the place of women in
society that continue to be pervasive despite decades of efforts to change
these attitudes by the thoughtful, progressive and feminist minded. This
sort of mindset can be directly linked to actions by right wing governments who cut programs that help and support women, and
the conservative minded within society who support and advocate these sorts
of government cutbacks. Those cuts are attacks on women and they are indicative
of an attitude within a significant segment
of society that women should just shut up and deal with this sort of thing
privately.
It's an attitude that is wrong! Rape culture exists
and we as a society have to do something to eliminate it.
To
do or think otherwise should sicken and anger everyone!
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