In this extract from her new book, Boys Will Be Boys, Clementine Ford argues the status quo reveres men as a class but destroys them as individuals
In 2015, the small American town of Dietrich, Idaho, was rocked by revelations of sexual abuse emanating from the high school’s football team. The Washington Post described Dietrich as “a community on edge” after charges were filed against three players who were alleged to have sexually assaulted a fellow student.
While it’s not uncommon for residents to rally around young men with “promising futures”, there’s one key difference between this case and most of the ones we hear about – in Dietrich, the victim was a male teammate. He was also a young black man with intellectual disabilities in an overwhelmingly white town.
Continue reading...from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2NjMhRu
via
0 Comments