| ""There's nothing particularly new about the rapes themselves. What's new is that there are pictures and videos, which are immediately circulated. Those mean evidence--though that doesn't always mean arrests, as in the case of Rehtaeh Parsons--but they also mean that victims face increased bullying, that they don't have to worry only about running into their rapists in the hallways at school, but about every one of their classmates who has seen the pictures and decided that the way to respond is not by speaking out against rape or quietly supporting the victim but by joining a pack of bullies in attempting to shame and humiliate her. And there's no redemptive ending--justice in Steubenville is good, but it doesn't undo what that girl went through; Rehtaeh Parsons and Audrie Pott are dead. What we have is a long, grueling fight to make this less common. |
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