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KitSileya

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9. I did go to the link because it was a comment on the press release,
Mon Jan 6, 2014, 11:56 AM
Jan 2014

not the press release itself. I do understand your repugnance at reading it.

Thinkprogress had in the article, as a paragraph of its own, the sentence I quoted. It really made it stand out, and I like that at least some of the media acknowledges the lack of the victim in this press release. That lack of mention is what more than anything other tells me we live in a rape culture. The legal/press team of a convicted rapist, whose crime was proven by his own photographs of it, knows that it isn't necessary to show remorse to the public. The know it isn't necessary for a convicted rapist to acknowledge the atrocity he committed to gain the public's approval. They are betting that the public doesn't care about the victim either. I doubt we'll see mainstream media pointing out the lack.

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