On Asking for Gang Rape

Just in case you were wondering why feminists are angry a lot of the time, I offer this:

In March, a 17 year old girl was gang raped at a house party. There were a bunch of guys in the room cheering, some girls at the party eventually broke down the door and took her to the hospital. The victim was drunk to the point that she had vomited all over herself and passed out (uhm, whatever about the debate over drunken consent – you cannot give consent when you are unconscious).

The DA is not prosecuting the case because there is “insufficient evidence” despite the fact that the girl was taken to the hospital, and it was reported that “some kind of sexual assault” had occurred. Really, without any further detail, that seems like enough to move forward with some kind of prosecution: the girl was 17 so it is statutory rape at the very very least; she was wasted/unconscious and unable to give consent; there were 8 men in the room cheering, so if someone could fucking put them under oath and make them say what happened, I’m sure there would be no dirth of evidence. Also, another girl came forward in the middle of this controversy to say that she had also been gang raped at a party at the same house, by some of the same guys, a few months before. The guys had given her shots of tequila and taken shots of beer themselves. Classy. For a bunch of despicable rapists, that is.

P.S. A bunch of the gang rapists and their cheerleaders were on their community college baseball team, so the case is now dubbed “The De Anza Case” (that’s the name of their community college) and all the rapists are referred to in the media as “Johnny Smith, junior secondbaseman” etc. (By the way, I love baseball – huge fan, but in the face of unprosecuted gang rape even I fail to see its significance.)

As if this isn’t barf-worthy enough, here’s another kicker. I was reading about this on IBTP (whose post is much more detailed than mine, fyi) and one of the De Anza players left this comment:

“sounds like you sure do buy in to the way the media twists a case in a girls direction…ever thought about what happened before the girl went in that roo…what she was doing…..saying….acting….perhaps when the truthful story comes out after all this dies down you will lower your chin a bit and look in the mirror…..the media is not the accurate source of info. they were not there in that room…i was….justice has been served”

Dear De Anza Rapists,

Some information you might find useful:
(1) No matter what a drunk 17 year old does/says/wears or how she acts, if you have sex with her when she is unconscious, it is rape.
(2) When you have to lock a woman in a room so that you and your friends can sexually assault her, that is rape. When a woman wants to have consensual sex with you, you will notice the following – (a) she will not be drunk to the point of incapacitation (b) you don’t have to lock her in the room.
(3) Are you seriously using the “she was asking for it” line? REALLY?? You’re going to write it down and everything? You are so ignorant you don’t even have the sense to be ashamed this ridiculous/misogynist defense?
(4) If the media isn’t a fair source of information about what happened, what about the victim’s account? What about that of the girls who rescued her and took her to the hospital? You and the other guys who were in the room aren’t the only people who get to tell the story here. You’ll forgive me if I don’t think that people who repeatedly commit violent crimes with their friends are the most reliable witnesses.

Seriously, that comment truly makes my blood boil. I forget sometimes that these kind of Neanderthals are still roaming the planet, raping girls and saying “she was asking for it.” Can we have some public discussion about why “yeah she [said no/ was unconscious/ was too drunk to give consent] but she was [talking sexy/ wearing a short skirt/ flirting with me/ etc] is never an excuse for rape, so that we don’t have to listen to this bullshit any more?