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23 People Who Think The Steubenville Rape Victim Is To Blame

When two Ohio high school football players were found guilty of rape, many decided to say that it wasn’t really their fault…

I know, right? Now tell your friends!
23 People Who Think The Steubenville Rape ...
Jack Moore

But it wasn’t just on Twitter. Facebook users got in on the victim-blaming too.

As did some Reddit users.

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    • JesusChrysler   23 People Who Think The Steubenville...  about a week ago
    • samk24 2 weeks ago

      There is no girl out there that would lie about rape. There just isn’t. No one would want to put themselves through that. But there are thousands of men that would lie about raping someone and four thousand of their buddies are going to believe them.
      This is something that even my most logical friends agree on. They truly believe there is a good number of women out there that lie about being raped. There just isn’t. One is a billion, and I’m begin generous.

    • Mega1285 a month ago

      These people are obviously missing an important piece of their God forsaken brains.

    • Mega1285 thinks 23 People Who Think The Steubenville... is WTF  about a month ago
    • Cynychan thinks 23 People Who Think The Steubenville... is Fail  about a month ago
    • dcasebo a month ago

      When guys get drunk and pass out, do you call them stupid sluts? No, you laugh about it, but when a girl does it she’s called a drunken slut. So let me get this straight. If one of your daughters or sisters gets drunk and passes out, then it’s okay to rape them? Hey, I just want to get it right.

    • apw thinks 23 People Who Think The Steubenville... is Facepalm!  about a month ago
    • dragonslovetacos thinks 23 People Who Think The Steubenville... is WTF  about a month ago
    • khaze a month ago

      I have lived in a rural town in Ohio most of my life. As a young girl, one of the FIRST rules of life I learned was that you don’t get drunk with boys. In fact, its a risk just hanging out with boys, especially in an unsupervised environment. I’m NOT man bashing. But I accepted that rule and lived by it and survived high school unscathed. As an adult, I forgot that rule one night.. and I was raped… And I took the responsibility, because I was an ADULT. I feel for this girl, what those boys did was wrong. But I blame her mother for not teaching her that young, drunk boys in a group are dangerous. It’s common knowledge where I’m from. If you don’t want raped you don’t party with potential rapists.

      • Bry a month ago

        I’m sorry but you have been very damaged and brainwashed by your upbringing. It was NOT your fault you were raped. It is NEVER the victim’s fault. It is ALWAYS ALWAYS the rapist’s fault.  It is clear you have no sense of gender equality or women’s rights. A women should be able to go to a party and drink alcohol just like men do without fear of being raped. Rape is not a ‘just punishment’ for hanging out with boys. And men are not monsters who have no control over themselves or their urges.  I’m sorry you have been so poorly educated about your rights, and your right to not be raped. Please remember is it NOT your fault you were raped and if your mother tells you otherwise you need to put her straight.

    • leeta64 thinks 23 People Who Think The Steubenville... is Fail & WTF  about 2 months ago
    • GwnSx thinks 23 People Who Think The Steubenville... is WTF & Ew  about 2 months ago
    • Incwell thinks 23 People Who Think The Steubenville... is WTF  about 2 months ago
    • teresac5 2 months ago

      Those comments are downright disgusting!!! It’s no wonder the world is full of stupidness

    • teresac5   23 People Who Think The Steubenville... and thinks it’s Fail & WTF  about 2 months ago
    • chocoholic thinks 23 People Who Think The Steubenville... is OMG, Ew & WTF  about 2 months ago
    • Sammedawn thinks 23 People Who Think The Steubenville... is WTF  about 2 months ago
    • littlewren 2 months ago

      This makes me sick to my stomach. I don’t drink, but I have been known to pass out because of health problems. I keep thinking “What if that was me? Would people say things like this about me?”

    • BabySloth thinks 23 People Who Think The Steubenville... is Fail  about 2 months ago
    • jessicaf11 thinks 23 People Who Think The Steubenville... is Fail & WTF  about 2 months ago
    • oliviaevans   23 People Who Think The Steubenville... and thinks it’s Trashy & Ew  about 2 months ago
    • Robin Lindsay   23 People Who Think The Steubenville... and thinks it’s WTF & Fail  about 2 months ago
    • pigletinboots thinks 23 People Who Think The Steubenville... is Trashy, Fail & Ew  about 2 months ago
    • rutha5 2 months ago

      This country needs some serious education. Rape crosses gender, religion, culture, and societal boundaries. Anyone can be raped, and these people are just another classic example of the ignorance of America and the rape culture that we need to continue working together to get rid of. ASAP.

    • lotlot   23 People Who Think The Steubenville... and thinks it’s WTF  about 2 months ago
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    • melissak25 thinks 23 People Who Think The Steubenville... is WTF  about 2 months ago
    • jcarmona86   23 People Who Think The Steubenville...  about 2 months ago
    • addya thinks 23 People Who Think The Steubenville... is Fail  about 2 months ago
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    • allisonw8 thinks 23 People Who Think The Steubenville... is Trashy  about 2 months ago
    • sabrinamurphyb 2 months ago

      If she were in the street, naked and passed out you still do NOT have the right to rape her, EVER! This is why most rape cases are never reported, instead of being disgusted at the rapist, the victim gets put under a microscope!! Face it folks, even if she was a prostitute you still don’t have the right to rape.

    • Shellbug526 thinks 23 People Who Think The Steubenville... is WTF & Fail  about 2 months ago
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    • mariej3 thinks 23 People Who Think The Steubenville... is WTF  about 2 months ago
    • treezandbeez   23 People Who Think The Steubenville... and thinks it’s Fail & WTF  about 2 months ago
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    • simplyshort thinks 23 People Who Think The Steubenville... is Trashy & Fail  about 2 months ago
    • Savanna 2 months ago

      Why are so many people stuck on the underage drinking? Yeah it’s illegal and I get that. However if she were legal drinking age this would still be rape. What these boys did was wrong no matter what her age or level of intoxication. And it seems to me that they only “realized what they did was wrong” after they were busted. They didn’t realize while it happened, it didn’t stop them from sending out the videos. That’s bullshit in my opinion they always knew it was wrong, RAPE IS ALWAYS WRONG. They just didn’t give a flying fuck until they got in trouble. And who cares about their promising futures? Didn’t they forfeit that by committing this crime? It’s not the victims fault, and she will have to go through enough psychological struggles without being blamed for her rape.

    • Alysse Jacobs thinks 23 People Who Think The Steubenville... is WTF  about 2 months ago
    • hannahr18 2 months ago

      For all of you who are agreeing with the above pictures; She was drugged, carried from party to party unknowingly, and those boys were under the impression that was dead. There is a twelve minute video of them in YouTube talking about “how dead” she was. They thought they were raping a dead body. There are countless texts of those boys admitting what they had done. They have no excuse.

    • lex thinks 23 People Who Think The Steubenville... is Trashy & WTF  about 2 months ago
    • BlahBlah thinks 23 People Who Think The Steubenville... is Trashy & WTF  about 2 months ago
    • christinab28 2 months ago

      If she was sober would these boys have raped her? If their parents were around would they act this way? I want to believe they would not. Maybe if we teach our children to act & respond as if someone that mattered to them was watching it might change? It’s scares me that the above comments did not feel this was wrong. What if it was their sister, mother or girlfriend? I know i must be asking too much.

    • Kayla J 2 months ago

      I think the people who make these comments aren’t trying to be assholes, even though that’s exactly how they come across. I think that the idea of rape as a horrible random act that can happen to anyone regardless of who they are or what they have done is just too scary for many people to comprehend. Men who side with the rapists may be thinking “Those guys were like me and my friends. We don’t actually rape and hurt girls, so they couldn’t either, the girl must be asking for it”. Women who blame the victim might feel something along the lines of “That could never happen to me, she must have done something to deserve it”. Even victims who start to blame themselves by saying that they could have done more to stop it are trying to put the control back in their own hands. It speaks a lot about what we think of the actual act of rape, and everyone has a way to make it seem less random than it is.

    • cassiew4 thinks 23 People Who Think The Steubenville... is Fail  about 2 months ago
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    • Margo Ess thinks 23 People Who Think The Steubenville... is Ew, Trashy & WTF  about 2 months ago
    • jessicar14   23 People Who Think The Steubenville...  about 2 months ago
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    • isalsayourface 2 months ago

      Fucking hell. I give up…

    • isalsayourface   23 People Who Think The Steubenville...  about 2 months ago
    • pattii thinks 23 People Who Think The Steubenville... is OMG & WTF  about 2 months ago
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    • amoled thinks 23 People Who Think The Steubenville... is Ew & Fail  about 2 months ago
    • amoled 2 months ago

      Saw that the first couple were censored to be anon, immediately scrolled down here to voice my displeasure. THEY MUST NOT HIDE

    • DIGITALxxMINION 2 months ago

      reading these stupid apologist tweets makes me want to smoke crack and jump out the window…but i’d settle for traveling to the 23 writer’s 23 residences and peeing on them while they dream their (most likely) scummy dreams.

    • furbsie 2 months ago

      What the fuck is wrong with people?

    • furbsie thinks 23 People Who Think The Steubenville... is Trashy & WTF  about 2 months ago
    • Lucas Witherspoon   23 People Who Think The Steubenville...  about 2 months ago
    • meggied   23 People Who Think The Steubenville... and thinks it’s WTF  about 2 months ago
    • susiec3 2 months ago

      Don’t these wretched maggots know more women(and men)don’t report rape than do? Why would anyone falsely accuse someone of rape? These reactions prove the difficulty of reporting rape.

    • susiec3 thinks 23 People Who Think The Steubenville... is Fail & Trashy  about 2 months ago
    • emmah20 3 months ago

      im crying so hard why is the world still like this

    • JuneauKiki 3 months ago

      Just a bunch of rape apologists that are trying to feel better about their own desires.

    • Aja E 3 months ago

      I hope none of these people are women. This is disgusting.

     
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