Salon.com > War against women http://www.salon.com Sun, 19 May 2013 13:30:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Rape in the age of social media http://www.salon.com/2013/01/10/rape_in_the_age_of_social_media/ http://www.salon.com/2013/01/10/rape_in_the_age_of_social_media/#comments Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13166607 A video of a gleeful teenage boy crowing, “She is so raped" and “They raped her quicker than Mike Tyson!” An Instagram image of the same girl of Steubenville, Ohio, limply borne by boys holding wrists and ankles. An 11-year-old girl whose gang rape in Texas last year was discovered by adults via cellphone video, a video she then had to watch when she took the stand. A teenage boy in Canada who posted photos on Facebook of a 16-year-old girl being gang-raped, sentenced last year to probation and ordered to write an essay on "the pros and cons of social media."

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