"When asked by prosecutors why he didn’t stop the incident, he said, ‘It wasn’t violent. I didn’t..."

from CNN.com, testimony by Evan Westlake, 18, a Steubenville football and baseball player

I didn’t know exactly what rape was… A fundamental issue of rape culture.

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And there it is.

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I don’t have the words to express how this makes me feel.

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This is what we’ve taught them.

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See what rape culture has wrought?

“I thought it was forcing yourself on someone”

Because we’ve been talking this bullshit about boogeymen jumping out of the bushes as the only rapist archetype.

Congratulations.

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it scares the fuck outta me that this dude claims  that he didnt know that THEY WERE, IN FACT, FORCING THEMSELVES ON SOMEONE. SHE WAS DRUNK AND PASSED OUT. WTF DID HE THINK WAS GOING ON??????