And how many advantages in this life were your daughters given that this girl didn't have? How many privileges have they always taken for granted? How old are your daughters now? Did they have cell phones at the same age this girl did? Were they phones with cameras and texting? Were they phones that could…

Oh, and nice try pretending you aren't a totally pretentious, priviledged asshat.

i. no. just. wha. omg. head. exploding.

you assume there was ANY level of rationality involved in this whole situation. A) the men who took the blackberry obviously weren't being "rational." B) I don't think she was likely capable of rational thought at that time C) Since when was rationality have shit to do with FORCING SOMEONE INTO A SEX ACT FOR YOUR OWN…

Yes and Yes and Yes. Let 'em Swing!! And let them hang there awhile afterwards, like they used to leave pirates bodies hanging at port entrances to warn any incoming pirates of their likely fate.

Love me some Patrick Wilson. Might have to watch one of his movies this weekend.

Let me know how I can help.

Thanks. It is becoming a refrain in my head whenever I read crap like this.

So many Thoughts and Feels!!! OMG, seriously can't figure out where to begin. Let's go with this point, because it is the one that I can most coherently respond to without steam coming out of my ears or my hair spontaneously combusting.

Ann Voskamp wrote a post after Steubenville at her A Holy Experience blog (Yes, it's Christian, but her post about this is solidly good writing and advice regardless of your religious beliefs, imo) and on it she sad

In defense of a few of my friend's husbands, I can concur that *some* men are getting worse. Some, quite a few I know, are trying to get better. But, yes, *some* are getting way way way worse.

YES!!

In all honesty, it made me wonder how many of their stories should be crossing over into Jez's "Tell us about the first time you had sex" post. ;)

the thing even about that is, where the hell did all the blood come from??? Were they re-enacting scenes from Dexter or something?? WTF?

yeah, that's the exact part that made me laugh so hard!

right now it is WAAAAAY at the bottom. MacOlrc I think. See if this link works at all.

did you read the guy going to iraq one??? OMG! ROFL.

ME TOO!!!!!

I see one comment that says their registry actually says what the offender did. The registry in my state only says what degree it was. If I could see more detail of the actual offense, I'd feel much better.

I call BULLSHIT.