Allegations of another rape involving football team members in Steubenville.No surprise.

[thucythucy]

4. And yet they get away with it time and time again,

through the complicity of the communities around them.

This is a part of what feminists mean when we talk about a "rape culture."

A culture in which reports of rapes are most often ignored, brushed aside, covered up, leaving the survivors to struggle with their trauma alone, knowing all the while that the perpetrators, far from being punished, are often held up as heroes and role models (re: Penn State, the Catholic Church, etc. etc.).

We are watching the destruction of so many young women and young men, but as a culture we do so pathetically little to stop it.