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["Felty, Wade P." <>]

I’m sure a lot of you have followed the case from Maryville, MO, which played out almost exactly as last year’s Steubenville case: young female survivor not getting any justice in the legal system because of the well-connected family of the assailant and the ole’ boys network. Once again Anonymous stepped in and the Kansas City Star published a long article that got international attention. Now a special prosecutor is about to be appointed to re-open the case. Just look up “Maryville” on Google news, there’s almost 700 articles now.

 

What is really shocking to me is the response of some in the media.

http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2013/10/sexual_assault_and_drinking_teach_women_the_connection.html   “College Women: Stop Getting Drunk” by Emily Yoffe.

 

It triggered a huge backlash: (both of these have many links to the responses given to Yoffe’s original [awful] piece).

 

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/10/18/rape_culture_and_binge_drinking_emily_yoffe_responds_to_her_critics.html

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2465278/Dont-drink-dont-want-raped-Female-advice-columnist-causes-backlash-controversial-opinion-prevent-sexual-assault.html

 

Wade