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[turnonmyheels]

I've read my way through all the Steubenville Files I was unable to watch or listen to all 12 minutes of the video. I got through about 4.5 minutes before I had to turn it off.

For my own sanity.

Why aren't more people talking about this? Are people trying to guard their sanity like I am, because if I think about it too much I start to lose it.

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[ellensmithee.livejournal.com]

Jezebel has a tag for the whole case. I couldn't watch the video, it was too upsetting. I was happy to see that my alma mater cancelled that kid's football scholarship.

I find the whole thing to be very "typical" of small towns in Ohio, down to the sheriff's comments. When I was an undergrad at OSU, my best friend was at Miami University (in Miami, Ohio), and there was a case where a whole frat had abducted a pizza girl and gang-raped her a year or two before she'd started there (somewhere between 1982-84). They all got off with a slap on the wrist "so that their futures won't be ruined" and then they all made t-shirts that boasted about being the pizza girl raping fraternity while the girl was told she couldn't discuss the case with anyone. The sheriff in that town said there was no such thing as rape and he used to refuse to investigate rape cases.

[turnonmyheels.livejournal.com]

wow, I didn't think I could get even more upset.

AND YET

[ellensmithee.livejournal.com]

Ack, I'm sorry! This whole thing just fills me with rage. When I was younger, I used to hope things like this would inevitably get better, but now it feels like they haven't progressed at all (at least in small towns in Ohio).

[turnonmyheels.livejournal.com]

You know, most of the world thinks things like this only happen in the South. And somehow, the media keeps letting them. I do wish some respectable national journalists would make this reach as many eyes as possible.

But then the asshole politicians would start talking about different kinds of rape again and that way lies madness.

[ladycat777.livejournal.com]

I got news for you- middle of Ohio and PA are basically the same as that stereotype of the south, down to the KKK grand dragon being located *in Pennsylvania*.