{"id":2212,"date":"2006-03-29T04:12:36","date_gmt":"2006-03-29T11:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2212"},"modified":"2006-03-29T04:12:36","modified_gmt":"2006-03-29T11:12:36","slug":"duke-rape-case-round-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2212","title":{"rendered":"Duke Rape Case Round-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAbove: Photo from a vigil held outside the house where the rape took place.<\/em><\/p>\n

* If you want to follow this story, the blog to read is Justice 4 Two Sisters<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

* 15 of the lacrosse team members have been arrested before<\/a> – mostly minor stuff, like drinking.<\/p>\n

* Duke has canceled all lacrosse games<\/a> until there is a “clearer resolution.”<\/p>\n

* From the blog Life In The Chocolate City<\/a>:<\/p>\n

One of the young ladies was held down, beaten, choked, raped and sodomized. The police reports say that in the house they found her fingernails, her make-up bag and her cellphone. This is certainly the customary items a woman leaves behind after entertaining a group of athletes right? It’s typical for a white guy to holler out “Thank your grandpa for my cotton shirt” while getting a lapdance from a Black woman right? Of course it isn’t. […]<\/p>\n

Let’s just imagine that this assault took place at a predominately Black university and the victims were white, this would’ve been front page national news. […] It seems to me that this story has remained local to the North Carolina area. Their media is covering the story completely, but what about the rest of the nation. You can’t tell me that this isn’t newsworthy. It sure is newsworthy to African-Americans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He’s right.<\/p>\n

And regarding the details of the rape: These are mainstream, clean-cut, normal young American men. But look at the miles-deep reservoirs of woman-loathing and Black-loathing they were carrying around, just waiting for the right (wrong) situation.<\/p>\n

Are all men like this? God no. But too many are – too many for it to be called abnormal. Cultural masculinity is a sickness that can turn men into monsters, and men in college sports are exposed to more of this virulent stuff than anyone. Do I excuse these rapists? No, of course not – they are responsible for what they’ve done, and I fervently hope they rot behind bars. But until our culture completely changes the way we construct masculinity, boys with their heart set on demonstrating their masculinity to their friends\/teammates\/frat brothers\/whatever are going to keep on committing gang rapes.<\/p>\n

Porn spam I routinely delete from comments sometimes uses phrases like “teen rape” and “black bitch gets raped” for a sales pitch. Why do they think they’ll make money with ads like that? Presumably, because they are <\/em>making money with ads like that. Ordinary men, drawing on their own internal woman-loathing and Black-loathing, are plunking down money to masturbate to porn labeled “black bitch gets raped.” How awful is a culture in which that’s seen as no big deal?<\/p>\n

Anyhow, more posts and articles worth reading:<\/p>\n

Blackfeminism.org<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

I’ll put the race issue aside. This is also the result of universities allowing a negative athlete culture. More than a few studies have shown that athletes and frat boys are more likely to rape<\/a> than other men, in part because all-male environments encourage aggressive and violent displays of manhood.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Q Grrl: Background From The Local Community<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The town is pissed. Royally. And we’ve been pissed at the lacrosse team players and coach for the last ten years … even though the players obviously rotate out after 4 years. The team is notorious for it’s disruptive behavior in the neighborhoods around Duke. I lived across from the main lacrosse house for 7 years … and I can no longer count my calls to 911. In fact, a call I made a few years back resulted in 67 citations for underage drinking … the coach didn’t bat an eye. Similarly, I know that at one point, campus women were aware of sexual assault and harassment by lacrosse players. The house they lived in was repeatedly toilet papered … and once, upon seeing the black-clad women tp-ing the house I asked why. Their reply: to warn other undergraduate women that a woman had been assualted while at a lacrosse party.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Pinko Feminist Hellcat: Race, Entitlement and Rape<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Don’t doubt for a minute that these women will be slut-baited. We already know what happens to women who are deemed sexual–they are sluts, whores, asking for it. They are suddenly trying to recapture lost virute. They are golddiggers trying to get cash on a false rape charge. Maybe they’ll be deemed crazy and therefore uncredible. Maybe the defense will decide that they really, really need their medical records and–ooops!–just release them accidentally on purpose. It’s happened before.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

David Wright: Message to Duke Lacrosse Players<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

There are only two possibilities I see here. Either you come forward with the truth that reveals none of the criminal allegations actually happened or you come forward with the truth that at least with respect to some of your teammates, some or all of the allegations are true. To refuse to come forward with either version is to take the absolute worst course of action. If indeed that girl was raped, she is certainly some father’s little girl, and she could be some brother’s sister. If she was your sister, would you refuse to come forward with the truth to protect the “code” among your teammates?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(See David’s other posts on the subject, here <\/a>and here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Ruth Sheehan: Team’s Silence Is Sickening<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Jill Hopman: Duke’s Lacrosse Players Still Defiantly Partying<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Reflections of a Redhead: Break Room Conversation<\/strong><\/a>
\nWouldn’t it be great to live in a country which had gotten beyond “well she deserved it” attitudes?<\/p>\n

Dreams Into Lightning Pulls Together A Lot Of Interesting Connections<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The iPinions Journal discusses how media coverage varies according to race.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Sporlitics<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Lacrosse has always been chock-full of the same types that later commit the white-collar crimes like Enron: rich, white kids whose only possession greater than their wealth is their cockiness and general sense of untouchability. The only difference between them and what they will become thirty years down the road is a total misunderstanding of consequences, a dangerous ingredient.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Backwards Assholes Read Newspaper Websites<\/strong><\/a>
\nThe readers’ comments at the News Observer blog are pretty appalling. Some examples:<\/p>\n

These men have been hanged in the court of public opinion, justice and liberty be damned. Witch hunts in days of yore are referenced by feminazis as examples of historical misogony. They don’t question their own actions however when they are the ones hunting for punishment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, because getting angry and demanding an investigation is exactly <\/i>the same thing as burning innocent people to death.<\/p>\n

But what do I know, I’m still assuming that if 3 actually are guilty, forty some other guys aren’t. But that’s crazy, men are evil, right?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t think that men who watch and do nothing as three of their buddies drag an unwilling woman into a bathroom are innocent. I’m not sure what exactly it is that they’re guilty of, but I sure hope a courtroom soon finds out.<\/p>\n

Praising protestors (who may have in fact been trespassing<\/em>) for supporting a woman who may very well have been breaking the law (in working for an escort service) due to her allegations <\/em>that have NOT been proven to be true is shoddy writing, no matter if the writer is a reporter or a columnist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, trespassing; that’s what we should be focusing on here. That, and laws broken by the victim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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