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Brickbat

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4. Yes, it permeates the culture.

Reply to Mz Pip (Reply #2)

Fri Jan 4, 2013, 12:57 PM

Jan 2013

While I want to punch those smug bastards in their faces, I also mourn for their lost potential -- many people had hands in making them who they are today. They were babies and children who grew up in a rape culture where that was allowed and ignored. It's sick and sad all around.

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Regarding Steubenville: I find it frustrating and heartening at the same time [View all] Brickbat Jan 2013 OP

and the many many people that still said it is the girl, and the boys were just behaving like stupid seabeyond Jan 2013 #1

Yeah, this isn't directed necessarily at anything specific I've seen on DU. More of a tone I've Brickbat Jan 2013 #3

What I found so disturbing about this Mz Pip Jan 2013 #2

Yes, it permeates the culture. Brickbat Jan 2013 #4

+1000. nt. polly7 Jan 2013 #5

Is Steubenville footage the 21st c version of fire-hosing African Americans? zazen Jan 2013 #6

Very good points. Brickbat Jan 2013 #7