You seem to confuse me with FlowbeeBryant. Do I broadly blame all small towns for Maryville? No. I blame this town; But I won't pretend that each small town story like this is an isolated incident either. Also, to call what happened "slut-shaming" rather understates the matter. If the girl was persecuted, the term…

I want to agree, but no. This case goes far beyond the scope of Hanlon's Razor. You cannot attribute this sort of behavior to stupidity. This is malice, pure and simple. If it -were stupidity, you could hate the town, but think that it could get better somehow, but this sort of place doesn't get better. It gets worse…

Are the culprits given a pass? Does the city turn out to persecute the victims? The victim's family? Burn down the victim's home? No? Then kindly go fuck yourself.

The whole town wasn't involved in the rape itself, but it was in what happened afterward; those who dismissed it (both in the legal sense and not), those who persecuted the family, and those who were complicit in it all.

Nah, that's a ugly mistake, but if you make a really major mistake in a German meat-processing plant then "You're the fucking wurst!" would be accurate.