Anyone following the Anon v. Steubenville, Ohio HS rapist story making it's way around today?

mixedmedia · Oct 8, 2013

Because they are living in a small town with an entrenched high school football culture and she was just a drunk girl getting what she deserved. I don't think I'm exaggerating.

Borla · Oct 8, 2013

mixedmedia said: ↑

Because they are living in a small town with an entrenched high school football culture and she was just a drunk girl getting what she deserved. I don't think I'm exaggerating.
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Sadly I don't think you are off base.

I love sports as much or more than almost any one of my friends or people I know. But it is a game, and does not deserve to be elevated to that level of influence for any reason, in any way.

Baraka_Guru · Oct 8, 2013

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But it is a game, and does not deserve to be elevated to that level of influence for any reason, in any way.
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To reasonable people, it's a game. Problems can arise among those who consider it life.

I imagine that football culture is fuelled in large part by machismo and hypermasculinity.

Borla · Oct 8, 2013

Baraka_Guru said: ↑

To reasonable people, it's a game. Problems can arise among those who consider it life.

I imagine that football culture is fuelled in large part by false machismo and a warped desire hypermasculinity.
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FTFY

A truly masculine man wouldn't think of covering up a teenaged girl's rape so that some kids could play a game. That's not masculine, it's weak and twisted.

Baraka_Guru · Oct 8, 2013

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FTFY

A truly masculine man wouldn't think of covering up a teenaged girl's rape so that some kids could play a game. That's not masculine, it's weak and twisted.
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Oh, I've used those terms knowingly. Machismo refers to the belief in the superiority of men over women (consider patriarchy and misogyny), while hypermasculinity refers to the exaggerated male behaviour based on "violence is manly" and aggressive sexual behaviour towards women.

So I don't think this is a false machismo (as in, they likely really believe in these things), and hypermasculinity by its very nature is warped (this is, in itself, a fallacious and/or problematic view of masculinity).

Speed_Gibson · Oct 8, 2013

Haven't even opened this thread until today, much less considered posting in it but it finally clicked that this event happened in Dean Martin's hometown.

pig · Oct 14, 2013

In related news, I saw this last night while I wasn't successfully sleeping same story, different town. Amazing

Borla · Nov 25, 2013

Four more charged in Steubenville, Ohio, rape case - ESPN

4 more charged as part of rape case

STEUBENVILLE, Ohio -- An Ohio school superintendent, two coaches and a principal were charged by a grand jury that investigated whether other laws were broken in the rape of a drunken 16-year-old girl, the state's attorney general said Monday.

The special grand jury convened in Steubenville had investigated whether coaches or school administrators knew of the rape allegation but failed to report it as required by state law.

The charges against the superintendent, Mike McVey, include felony counts of obstructing justice, Attorney General Mike DeWine said. McVey wasn't immediately available for comment, but the district planned to issue a statement Monday.

An elementary school principal and a strength coach are charged with failing to report possible child abuse. A former volunteer coach faces several misdemeanor charges, including making false statements and contributing to a child's delinquency.

DeWine announced the panel's creation March 17, the day a judge convicted two Steubenville High School football players of raping the West Virginia girl after an alcohol-fueled party in August 2012 following a team scrimmage. The grand jury had met on and off in the months since then.

It earlier charged the Steubenville schools' information technology director with tampering with evidence, obstructing justice, obstructing official business and perjury. The panel also indicted that man's daughter on theft and receiving stolen property charges unrelated to the rape case. Both have pleaded not guilty.

The case has long been marked by allegations that more football players should have been charged and that police and prosecutors initially tried to cover up aspects of the case. Authorities counter that two teens -- Ma'Lik Richmond and Trent Mays -- were arrested and charged within days of the incident.

Big Red football is a big deal in the economically depressed city of about 18,000, a former steel town that shed thousands of jobs in past decades. The school's football stadium, dubbed "Death Valley," sits on a hill above Steubenville, and the team is a nine-time state champion, including back-to-back titles in 2005 and 2006. Flames erupt from the mouth of a stallion rearing over the stadium each time a touchdown is scored.

Hacker activists helped propel coverage of the rape case and press allegations of a cover-up, including their reposting of a 12-minute Internet video made within hours of the attack in which Michael Nodianos, a former Steubenville student, jokes about the victim and the attack. The National Organization of Women had called on DeWine to charge Nodianos with failure to report a crime, while Nodianos' attorney says his client had no firsthand knowledge of the attack.

The owners of the house where the video was made were among those interviewed by investigators.

Richmond, 17, was convicted of rape and sentenced to a year in the juvenile prison system. Mays, also 17, was convicted of rape and of using his phone to take a picture of the girl as she was naked. He was sentenced to two years in juvenile detention.
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More charges against those who were tasked with protecting kids and instead tried to cover up rape. Good, I hope none of them ever work in education again, and I hope they end up being convicted and serve time if the charges are legit.

pig · Nov 25, 2013

Jesus Tapdancing Christ! Well, at least there is going to be some accountability in this situation. Big Red Football can go suck a dick.

chinese crested · Nov 26, 2013

Interesting - in a good way. Surely this will mean that any child who has say, gone to their church elders with allegations - they will have to be independently looked into - or those covering up crimes like this will face jail themselves (and rightly so.)
If they are guilty, I would like to wish them cancer of the penis, so every day they can take their mouldering piece of sad rancid meat out for a pee and remember what a bunch of utterly revolting dick heads they truly are. I also hope if convicted, several men go all shawshank on their arses .

MSD · Nov 27, 2013

The moral of the story is that you can't rely on basic human dignity and compassion for a person who was drugged and gang raped, the justice system only responds to the whims of a loosely organized group of Internet vigilantes.

pig · Nov 28, 2013

ain't that the truth brother. fucked up world.

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