THANK YOU. I was scouring the comments to see if anyone had brought this up yet. Like, I hope this child's mother knows that she is perpetuating rape culture by allowing her 6 year old daughter to have pictures of a goddamn HIGH SCHOOL football player on her wall, elevating him to some sort of superstar status, simply…

And if you weren't such terrible, football obsessed people, why did you just run up the score to win by six touchdowns?

Seriously. If only we could prevent all the "good boys" like this from ever getting into college, maybe then we'd see the number of college women who are raped start to go down. I give less than zero fucks for that little piece of shit.

I admire what Katie was trying to do in the piece, I really do. It's just quite clear that (a few? some? many?) of the Steubenville folk, especially those in the educational establishment, look *worse* now than they did before. This school may be producing moral monsters (the players), but this isn't surprising…

I went from rolling my eyes to actual outrage at this point:

I don't see a single thing in this article that leads me to believe that anyone there takes the larger issue seriously. On the contrary it seems like the prevailing attitude is

If anything, the quotes and sentiments of the locals actually decrease the level of sympathy I had for Steubenville before reading this piece. The way they talk about Cody Saltsman as if he's a fucking martyr, the things said by the guidance counselor, and the fact that the locals think they have taken enough lumps…

"A town destroyed by what a culture did, a culture actively perpetuated or blithely tolerated by all of us- especially men but even including those who are harmed most by it."

I can sum this entire fiasco into one simple phrase

The town wasn't destroyed for what two people did, it was destroyed for what so many refused to do.

I also loved the line just before that one "Athletes, male and female, put a lot more time into school; maybe not academically, but they do a lot,” sure not academically! What do you think school is for? Learning! Typical liberal elitist.

If you let your kid have a picture of Cody Saltzman posted on the wall and it isn't on a dartboard, you're a worthless human being.

I don't feel bad for them. They created the culture. The posts by all of the students condemning the girl certainly shows who's side they were on. And they didn't act very quickly to bring the boys involved in for questioning. I don't necessarily agree with the tactics of Anonymous. And I certainly don't believe in…

Longtime guidance counselor John Lee Gillison said Big Red players deserve recognition because they’re held to a higher standard.

People in Steubenville understand why the image Saltsman captured — those thick, careless hands wrapped around the incapacitated victim's dangling arms and wrists — will stick long after case particulars fade. But they still insist that Saltsman is the “kindest boy you’ll ever meet,”

“Yeah, they’re privileged. But they’ve earned it.”

It's terrible that innocent people were dragged into this, especially the children of the coach. But dammit, they're still treating their high school athletes like demigods. That's a big, big problem, and it IS the fault of the school and greater community.

I always mean to get to it in the morning, but I never do...

No. Tradition dictates that the Royal Dog must wed a British bitch of noble blood. Sunny Obama would be the Wallis Simpson of our generation—it would RUIN Lupo.

I must have read it wrong. She seemed clueless and needy to me.