city:steubenville

prenez ce couteau (Nous vivons dans un monde où signaler le sexisme...)
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Nous vivons dans un monde où signaler le sexisme vous rend plus vulnérable que de le perpétuer. C’est pourquoi des gens comme George Will, un apologiste du viol qui a déjà appelé les survivant-e-s d’agressions sexuelles des “personnes privilégiées”, peut aller gagner 48000 dollars en allant parler à un centre universitaire, tandis que l’activiste féministe Anita Sarkeesian est forcée d’annuler son discours après que l’école ait reçu un avertissement de la part de quelqu’un qui menaçant une fusillade de masse en représailles. Même lorsque les hommes sont accusés de viol, ils ne rencontrent pas la même quantité de vitriol. Cette logique tordue explique pourquoi des filles comme Rehtaeh Parsons ou Audrie Pott ont été victimes de cyber-intimidation jusqu’au suicide après avoir été violées, tandis que la réputation de leurs violeurs a été largement épargnée. Cela explique également pourquoi la victime du viol de Steubenville a été violemment menacée en ligne, tandis que ses violeurs n’étaient pas visés du tout. Dans de nombreux cas, il est plus facile d’avoir une vie publique en tant que violeur qu’en tant que victime.

We live in a world where calling out sexism makes you more vulnerable than perpetuating it. That’s why people like George Will, a rape apologist who has called survivors of sexual assault “privileged,” can go on to earn $48,000 to speak at a college, while feminist activist Anita Sarkeesian is forced to cancel her speech after the school received a warning from someone threatening a mass shooting in retaliation. Even when men are accused of rape, they aren’t met with the same amount of vitriol. That twisted logic explains why girls like Rehtaeh Parsons or Audrie Pott were cyberbullied to death after being raped, while their attackers’ reputations have remained largely unscathed. It also explains why the Steubenville rape victim was violently threatened online, while her rapists weren’t targeted at all. In many cases, it’s easier to have a public life as a rapist than as a rape victim.

#culture_du_viol #sexisme #féminisme #harcèlement

Ariel Levy: Was Justice Served in Steubenville? : The New Yorker
▻http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/08/05/130805fa_fact_levy?currentPage=all

In trying to determine what happened in #Steubenville, the police and the public began with the same information, gathered from the same online sources: ugly tweets, the Instagram photograph, and a deeply disturbing video. But while the police commandeered phones, interviewed witnesses, and collected physical evidence from the crime scene, readers online relied on collaborative deduction. The story they produced felt archetypally right. The “hacktivists” of #Anonymous were modern-day Peter Parkers—computer nerds who put on a costume and were transformed into superhero vigilantes. The girl from West Virginia stood in for every one of the world’s female victims: nameless, faceless, stripped of identity or agency. And there was a satisfying villain. Teen-age boys who play football in Steubenville—among many other places—are aggrandized and often do end up with a sense of thuggish entitlement.

In versions of the story that spread online, the girl was lured to the party and then drugged. While she was delirious, she was transported in the trunk of a car, and then a gang of football players raped her over and over again and urinated on her body while her peers watched, transfixed. The town, desperate to protect its young princes, contrived to cover up the crime. If not for Goddard’s intercession, the police would have happily let everyone go. None of that is true.

#milice #vigilantism #hacktivism #human_flesh_search cc @lucile

Hacker Who Exposed Steubenville Rape Case Could Spend More Time Behind Bars Than The Rapists | Alternet
▻http://www.alternet.org/hacker-who-exposed-steubenville-rape-case-could-spend-more-time-behind-bar

The Steubenville rape case, in which two high school football players were convicted of sexually assaulting a young girl at a party, helped spark a national conversation about consent, victim-blaming, and rape culture. The case gained national attention after the “hacktivist” group Anonymous leaked significant social media evidence implicating the assailants — including tweets, Instagram photos, and a 12-minute video of Steubenville high schoolers joking about the rape. But it turns out that working to expose those rapists may land one Anonymous hacker more time in prison than the rapists themselves will serve.

Le #viol de Steubenville - C’est de la masculinité qu’il s’agit
▻http://sisyphe.org/spip.php?article4396

Mais je ne suis pas non plus intéressée à vilipender ces individus. Ce que nous devons comprendre, je pense, c’est que, oui, ce comportement était absolument répugnant et horrible et il doit absolument être considéré comme un crime, mais que ces jeunes hommes ne sont pas des monstres. Ils sont tout simplement des gars ordinaires. Des gars qui jouent au football, vont à l’école secondaire et vont à des fêtes avec leurs amis. et qui ont appris, en grandissant en tant qu’hommes dans une culture masculine de viol et de pornographie, que les #femmes ne sont pas de véritables êtres humains à part entière. Ils ont appris, comme beaucoup de garçons l’apprennent en tant qu’hommes, que les femmes existent pour le divertissement des hommes ; que ce soit sur scène dans un club de danseuses, sur l’écran dans de la pornographie, ou ivre-morte à une fête.

L’affaire de Steubenville
Extrait de Invasion of the Data Snatchers - NYTimes.com
►http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/14/opinion/keller-invasion-of-the-data-snatchers.html?pagewanted=2

via @reka

Or take the Steubenville case. In Steubenville, Ohio, authorities charged two members of the high school football team with the repeated rape of a passed-out-drunk 16-year-old, but did not charge the many others who allegedly cheered them on and made videos. So the online activists of Anonymous took it upon themselves to hack into private accounts, recover deleted and incriminating videos, and make them public. Amanda Marcotte wrestled with the moral dilemma on Slate: “By stepping in and holding people accountable, Anonymous stands a very good chance of taking action that actually does something to stop rape. But: This type of online vigilante justice is potentially invading the privacy of or defaming innocent Steubenville residents, and even if everything published is true, there are very serious legal limits to the Anonymous strategy.”

Le paragraphe ci-dessus synthétise deux articles, la description des faits (viol collectif dans une fête en août 2012) ►http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/sports/high-school-football-rape-case-unfolds-online-and-divides-steubenville-ohio parue dans le NYT du 17/12/12 et les suites de cette publication (hack par des Anonymous et divulgation de noms de personnes impliquées) ►http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/25/sports/hackers-of-steubenville-football-teams-web-site-demand-apology-in-rape-case (NYT 25/12/12)