Before I spent the last week of August in Steubenville, I only cared about the guilty verdict, which confirmed that two boys had raped a drunk girl

I'm horrified to hear that there were rape-related insults being yelled at little children. That's absolutely unacceptable. But this whole "Steubenville was destroyed" thing? Not buying it. This will go away eventually.

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

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

"Yes, those two boys crossed the line,” said one parent closely connected to the case.

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

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

"Adults in Steubenville are sick of thinking about how she feels."

But this case could have happened almost anywhere. It was easy for many to disparage Steubenville due to being small and football-centric, and those factors played a role in how the adults involved wanted to cover up the crime; however, rape culture is not a problem only Steubenville faces and to say it's that town's…

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.

But the bubble is a lot bigger than Steubenville.

"Adults in Steubenville are sick of thinking about how she [the rape victim] feels." And this is why I still don't feel bad for the people of Steubenville. The lack of introspection is staggering.

Thank you! I almost rolled my eyes out of my head.

Saltsman’s photo and tweets may be evidence of a culture that treats women as dispensable playthings, but it isn’t evidence of rape.

Destroyed? I'm sorry, did roving bands of angry feminists come through and burn Steubenville to the ground, salting the earth on the way out? Nope! Two boys were put on trial, convicted, and sentenced. Adults were told to take responsibility for their role in what happened. As for Christmas day death threats, that is…

There's nothing saying that they would have to do it immediately =/

Totally full of shit. The "Women in Refrigerators Syndrome" meme in comic books completely tears this explanation to shreds. Love interests are routinely used to wreak havoc on the hero's happiness, and if he's so committed to the idea of the miserable hero, there's not reason why they couldn't get married and then…

Misogynist dickhole doesn't GET your anger, internet LAYYYDIES.

Fuck you, DC comics.