Viral Rape is Trending, And We Should All Be Very Worried

[redqueen]

*Trigger Warning*

It's a story that's now all too familiar: A young girl is violently gang-raped by a group of boys she knows. People stand by. They don't stop it. One of the offenders snaps a picture of the victim and aggressively disseminates it. It goes viral. And people stand by. They don’t stop it. In fact, they spread it like wildfire. Not by accident. On purpose. The rapist wants to share the trophy of his crime. He holds it like a shining beacon of malevolence for the world to see.

"Look what I did. Look what I took."

And other people want to see it. And they want it to be seen. Not to shame the assailant but to humiliate the survivor.


http://www.policymic.com/mobile/articles/34611/audrie-pott-rape-viral-rape-is-trending-and-we-should-all-be-very-worried

[Ilsa]

1. The rapists and whoever uploads the pics and stories

need maximum sentences. They are accessories to the rape, participating in promoting rape. Long prison sentences with other violent offenders seems appropriate to me.

[seabeyond]

2. cause it is not like they have enough porn. they need more... something more.... a woman or girl

that is truly being abused, to get off.

[zazen]

3. only silver lining--this is what pornography already is

and maybe, maybe, more people will begin to understand that most "pornography" is a photograph of a legally unconsenting (through being underage, drugged, or coerced) person being sexually violated that is then spread in perpetuity without their consent or even compensation.

I'm heartened that there's an uproar about rape photos and revenge porn, but that's because people believe (except for the original perpetrators, clearly) that those violated in them are human beings. Because mainstream society is conditioned to not think of prostitutes and pornography "actresses" (usually, sex trafficking victims) as humans but as things (and "whores" who deserve and secretly want it) then photographs of them don't even register on the moral meter. They're just so much human trash.

I'd venture to say that 50% of pornography online is photographic sex crime evidence. I'm sorry we're seeing more of it being made of the "good" females, but maybe that'll wake people up to the humanity of the "bad" ones to whom this has been happening for decades.

[seabeyond]

4. i agree but the problem is, in my view instead of allow people to realize their porn probably is a

sex slave victim, i think the norm becomes... these ho es should not have gotten so drunk, deserved, and becomes norm. at what point does all females, girls and women just become a thing to pornify....

[ismnotwasm]

5. Did you read that book, "So Much Pretty" by Cara Hoffman?

The writing style is definitely not everybody's cup of tea--multiple viewpoints, non-linear plot- but it still is resonating with me. The story reflects this very reality, and like the man said, "it's one of the ugliest books I've ever read and I couldn't put it down"