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" You&amp;amp;#8217;ve already expended enough brain power on the horror of the Steubenville rape case&amp;amp;#8212;not even mentioning the media controversy around it&amp;amp;#8212;but wrap your head around this: #BlameTheVictim #PoorRapists Yeah, that. They&amp;amp;#8217;re just some of the tweets floating around that appear to be sympathizing with the attackers. Imagine having your body violated, living in public shame, and then seeing public support (even sympathy!) for the attackers when what you need is a community coming together for you. If your head is spinning like mine, I have few thoughts on what we can do. Number one? We&amp;amp;#8217;ve got to stop feeding attention to the rapists with hashtags like the above&amp;amp;#8212;and even cut out others like #BigRedRapists and #KillARapist, aimed at combating the negativity. We have to stop associating tags like #whore and #slut with Steubenville; regardless of whether someone&amp;amp;#8217;s doling out blame on the victim or saying &amp;amp;#8220;stop calling her a #whore,&amp;amp;#8221; the words&amp;amp;#8212;they&amp;amp;#8217;ve just gotta go. Instead, let&amp;amp;#8217;s look at who&amp;amp;#8217;s doing this right: the We Support Jane Doe Facebook page. &amp;amp;#8220;Support has poured in for the perpetrators in the Steubenville rape case. Meanwhile, the victim is getting death threats and must face life in a small and mostly hostile town. She needs the support of women who have survived. More than that, she needs a network of people she can turn to for practical help, like places to stay and a voice at the other end of the line 24/7. We are showing our support on twitter by using the hashtag #SupportJaneDoe - please join in.&amp;amp;#8221; And really, join in to shift the spotlight. Supporting Jane Doe is as simple as tweeting #SupportJaneDoe, #OccupySteubenville, #2013EndRape, and #StopRape. One tweet with these hashtags could open the door for a million conversations, I think&amp;amp;#8212;don&amp;amp;#8217;t you? &amp;amp;mdash;Maggie Freleng Photo: Newscom"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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