When you're drunk, you don't have the mental faculties to truly consent to sexual relations or to resist them. Intoxication reduces your judgment to where you can't think of consequences of your decisions.

That is what I think I am reading here....

do with rape?

they take that 3rd or 4th drink,they know that they've made a decision to drive impaired,they made a personal choice to drive drunk. No one makes a personal choice to get raped while drunk. Drunk drivers are not victims of another person's choices,rape victims are.There is a very simple question to ask yourself,what are the chances of a man being in danger of being raped because they've had too much to drink and why are the chances so much greater for women?

makes me

when it comes to victim blaming. Steubanville is just the ugly face of a popular concept.

It's not rocket science.

(a) committing the criminal offense of DUI; and
(b) getting raped?

asking for it".Shame on him.

The rapist isn't being persecuted because he's black. He was prosecuted because he's a rapist.

He must've been ASKING for someone to make him say that.

If the NAACP doesn't show this guy the door then they will have to own his comments...and the right will use his words like a club!!!

and this stupid man HAD to open his potty mouth.

She is not an "alleged" victim. She is THE victim. The boys have been convicted in a court of law. They are convicted rapist and she is the victim.

I expect that chapter has already gotten a long, lengthy call from Baltimore....

That's my guess, he's just like so much of that town, willing to say and believe the most horrific things to "support the team".

And Stubenville isn't unlike other places in the country either.

Sorry, dumbass. These ain't the Scottsboro Boys.

Be interesting to see if the national organization cuts him loose.

Grey Poupon?

this guy is no longer allegedly stupid. It has been confirmed. And he asked for that.

My god, they have guys ON VIDEO talking about how dead she was.

If a person passes out drunk and somebody goes into their pants and steals their wallet it is a crime called theft.

If a person passes out drunk and somebody goes into their pants for other reasons its called a controversy.

All I've got is !

... idiots and asses. Time to show this idiotic ass the door.

...does he not realize there are videos of the young woman being dragged around unconscious, and of young men making remarks about how "dead" she was when the rapes took place? Does he think she agreed to be urinated on? Does he think it's okay for young men to "drop her off" unconscious in her own front yard? A person that drunk could die from alcohol poisoning, or could turn over and choke on their own vomit and die (it was reported by some that she was drugged without her knowledge, making that risk greater). These things happen. Those young men are damned lucky the charges were "only" rape.

This alleged man should be booted out of the NAACP without delay. Unless the NAACP would like to be known as an organization that condones rape and the degradation of women.

I do agree that some people who should have been charged weren't and that it is likely they weren't due to being connected. Given all the crap he buried that point under no one will discuss that issue sadly. Maybe Dewine can fix that to some extent.

then the last outrage...along comes another one to lower the bar yet again. EVERYONE in this case was 'well connected' except for the rape victim it appears.

Sounds like a lot of petty scumbags live in Steubenville and cannot handle facts and evidence. What a vile place to live.

more proof to me about how much trouble we will have if we ever manage to elect a woman president. We thought we had trouble with a black president, but....

After all, when you're being carried from party to party, naked and unconscious, doesn't that usually imply consent?

Disgusting comments but I doubt he will be held responsible for them.

If you click the link, you'll find he is still on the board.

When you have the media reporting such ridiculous statements, when elected officials repeat similar offensive statements...
We have a cultural problem that indocates wider education is desperately needed.
Too many people out there muddying the waters.

Football is sacred . . .

Victims be damned!