# Did half the town Rape this girl?

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**Created:** [March 9, 2011, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-half-the-town-rape-this-girl/574070 "2011-03-09T18:26:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-half-the-town-rape-this-girl/574070/252 "2011-03-13T21:19:28Z")

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> What you’re exerting a great deal of effort to avoid is that this is not some property crime, it’s the rape of an elven-year-old child.
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> And ‘shrieking harpy’ is sexist.
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> I do SO love it when some people act as if watching a bunch of men attack an eleven-year-old is no big deal, but critisizing them for it makes one a ‘shrieking harpy’. Yes, dear, it’s an over reaction to find it disgusting the way the men here are attacking this girl. Really.
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> Doesn’t say anything about you at all.
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> When it comes to rape, in fact, there is no other side. There’s only the fact that rapists cause rape, not the things that victims do or don’t do, and the men of the SDMB really, for some reason, want to avoid confronting the notion that rape is the rapist’s fault, and no one else’s. You can’t agree to disagree on that. Rape is the rapist’s fault.
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> It’s just that it’s especially obscene watching people----a substantial number of whom are men----attacking the child who was raped, while brushing off any and all discussion about the actual rapists. And then they act like _they’re_ the reasonable ones.

_Nobody_ has said this is not a big deal, in fact the opposite that this is a VERY big deal.

_Nobody_ has said that the little girl’s behaviour caused or mitigates the culpability of the men involved.

_Nobody_ is attacking the child who was raped.

You are wilfully misrepresenting what people are actually saying in this thread.

Cut it out.

Oh, and FTR, I’m a woman, and I know plenty of male shrieking harpies too. Idiocy on this scale knows no gender boundaries it seems.

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