...WTF.

[ladycallie]

Originally posted by lavenderfrost at ...WTF.

NYTimes, the bastion of quality reporting, reported on the gang-rape of an 11 year-old girl in Texas  that's led to charges against 18 high-school boys so far - all well and good so far, right?  Shit like this NEEDS publicity to raise awareness. 

Only problem is, they repeated - without refutation or critical commentary - the claims that the girl brought the rape on herself because of the way she was dressed.

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THIS IS RAPE CULTURE, PEOPLE.

Now, what's being said and done in this community is bad enough, but the NY Times should be fucking ashamed of themselves right now.

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Comments

[gabriel-le.livejournal.com]

http://news.change.org/stories/success-new-york-times-public-editor-says-child-rape-story-lacked-balance

But it seems like this petition is a second one on the matter - asking for a better reaction than a comment in an online blog.

And in my frantic petition signing (I like signing petitions) I seemed to have done so already.

[ladycallie.livejournal.com]

The article was disgusting, but what bothered me more was that it was the first I've heard of the story. I'm not close to Cleveland Texas (it's over 4 hours away), but I try to keep on top of the news and something this appalling should have made headlines. But judging from the tone of the NYT article, I bet it was maybe a side bar if anything.

[gabriel-le.livejournal.com]

riiight - I forget sometimes where members of my online community actually come from irl.

I'm sorry. That is horrific.