This Is What Rape Culture Looks Like

And no doubt everytime a rapist gets away with his henious crime,he feels more power to comit another.Mothers lock up you daughters,thats what I say;..........

Thank you for this.

This is so true, I never even thought of it this way.

This part sickens me though:

"most girls would feel lucky to get to have sex with someone like Ben Roethlisberger"

I mean, there are so many things wrong with that sentence I don't even know where to start. Oh yes, I would feel so lucky to be forced to sleep with a disgusting 'Super Bowl winning QB' who is clearly such a loser he can't get a woman to like him for who he is. Lucky me.

If what is written is true it is horrible criminal behaviour but doesn't Ben Roethlisbergerget his day in court?  I have no tollerance for sexual assault (that is the term used here in Canada) but unless he pulls an MJ and settles out of court I would like to get the actual evidence as opposed to one person's version of what happened.

Thanks so much for posting this. 

I deffinately agree that themedia should be held just as acountabe as the acused, tey are deoingnothng bulettng thupper class A hoes think that they can get away with it!!

I was nonced around with by women as a child and resent the implecation that sexual offenders are always male. And in fact many male sexual predators had similar experiences to me. I thought I was gods gift for a while and, thanks to the actual God, grew out of it. Stop child abuse, stop rape - prevention is better than cure

need decent judges too, got some decent people comming up through the system, hopefully it wont be long.

Here is a response which I tried to post at YesMeansYes, but which has yet to be approved.There are actually serious questions about these accusations, though they certainly haven’t been brought up. These include affadavits and statements by several friends and co-workers saying that McNulty inquired whether she would get in trouble for going to Roethlisberger’s room and having sex with him, and then bragging about it afterwards and saying how great the experience was. Most troubling, it also includes a large number of texts and emails filed in court and given to media outlets, in which McNulty not only brags about the incident, talks about plans to see Roethlisberger again and joking about carrying his baby, but also an email sent before the incident joking about asking God to give her the strength to keep her from going to his room and “fixing his tv”.It is possible all of these emails and statements are all fake, but this would be fairly extreme given the enormous legal consequences every conspiritor would risk just to protect a client of a hotel.Now imagine they are all telling the truth, that there was no break in and information erasing , and that ESPN had access to these emails before they were filed and didn’t want to be in front of they pack reporting civil charges that seemed to be quite false. The “rape culture” in this one instance would evaporate.I am very sympathetic of rape victims, as I am of victims of false accusations. I believe it is important to expose rape culture where it exists. But ignoring any information that goes against one’s point, especially where such serious accusations are concerned, is bad journalism, bad blogging and bad social criticism. When I was going through journalism school, we were taught that if you reported charges or accusations against someone, you were responsible for following their story to its conclusion, reporting all pertinent information the whole way along. If they were found innocent or charges were dropped, you should give this as much prominence as you did the initial accusation. I hope that if Ben Roethlisberger is found inncocent or the charges are dropped, this is not ignored on this blog the way all these emails and statements were, whether or not this contradicts your picture of this incident as rape culture.