Subtle Glow

This entry was posted by Rachel on Alas, a blog regarding this story about the lacrosse team at Duke University. There are several stories linked here, although I haven’t been able to access the story by The News & Observer linked in several places. I don’t know if they’ve pulled the articles or if their servers are just overloaded from everyone linking to them. I was able to get to this link, detailing other charges that some of the team members have faced in the past - most of them for posession of alchohol as a minor.

The real reason I’m posting about this is to get the word out on this, as requested from Rachel. I’ll be following the story but I don’t know that it will be any more tragic and infuriating as the antics reported during the Newport Beach Gang Rape (with excellent play-by-play done by Pinko Feminist Hellcat) trial that wound to a close recently.

Just reading through the comments on Alas has me gearing up for the inevitable frustration and anger that will go along with reading about this case. In that regard I hope I am to be sorely disappointed. But I can’t help but wonder, how many will hear of this case (men and women alike) and blame the woman who was raped, because she was a sex worker?
Ask yourself, do you REALLY believe that in some cases, a woman is deserving of sexual assualt? The answer should be a resounding “HELL NO” and we should all be doing something to back those words up. If you have a blog - feel free to take the links and pass the word on about this. Sitting silently and shaking our heads and wringing our hands isn’t going to exact any change in the way cases of sexual assualt turn into a victim defending herself (in most cases) against the unwanted sex forced upon her - by one or more people at the same time. We need to SPEAK OUT and ACT OUT against this kind of behavior, anything less is merely looking the other way.