(2013/12/18) Humans are just terrible (Rape Culture)

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🗓️ 19 December 2013

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Edition #783

Humans are just terrible

Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith

Ch. 2: Act 1: Anonymous Targets Missouri Town Over Dropped Rape Charges | Another Steubenville? - The Young Turks - Air Date: 10-16-13

Ch. 3: Song 1: Oops and move on - Henry Phillips

Ch. 4: Act 2: No prison time for rape? Survivor speaks out - Melissa Harris-Perry - Air Date: 11-24-13

Ch. 5: Song 2: Gimme Sympathy - Metric

Ch. 6: Act 3: Army Will Discharge All Convicted Sex Offenders - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 11-26-13

Ch. 7: Song 3: Smithereen - Deep East Music

Ch. 8: Act 4: Humans rape - This Week in Blackness - Air Date: 3-18-13

Ch. 9: Song 4: Like humans do - David Byrne

Ch. 10: Act 5: Masks Off - A Challenge to Men - Jeremy Loveday - Air Date: 12-03-13

Ch. 11: Song 5: Machine - David Ari Leon

Ch. 12: Act 6: Public and private advice, and the difference between blame and cause - Rationally Speaking - Air Date: 05-06-12

Ch. 13: Song 6: Kyoko's House ("stage blood is not enough") - Philip Glass

Ch. 14: Act 7: RAINN - The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network - UnFuck it Up Project

Ch. 15: Song 7: I didn't fuck it up - Katie Goodman

Ch. 16: Act 8: Creeps on the street - Laci Green - Air Date: 9-11-13

Ch. 17: Song 8: Cat calling - The Dollyrots

Ch. 18: Act 9: Rush Limbaugh: Women Want Sexual Harassment - Majority Report - Air Date: 12-17-13

Voicemails:

Ch. 19: Change is coming to small towns and more people should come out as trans - Unspellable name (sorry) from Alaska

Ch. 20: People looking to move to get health care - Raven from Louisville, KY

Ch. 21: MLK and the transgender community - Tony from Altanta, GA

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Voicemail Music:

Loud Pipes - Ratatat

Ch. 22: Final comments on the Stitcher Awards, holiday schedule and BotL's new website

Activism:

http://www.rainn.org

https://www.facebook.com/RAINN01

https://twitter.com/rainn01

Written by BOTL activism director, Katie Klabusich:

http://katiespeak.com

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0:13.2	Now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast with Clips Today
0:16.6	from the Young Turks, Melissa Harris-Perry, the David Pakman show, This Week in
0:20.9	Blackness, Jeremy Loveday, rationally speaking, activism from the Unfucked Up
0:25.6	Project, Lacey Green, and the Majority Report. Anonymous is after another
0:31.7	Stubanville, Ohio-type rape case, except this time it took place in Maryville,
0:36.1	Missouri. Now this alleged rape involved a 17-year-old high school student who
0:41.0	allegedly raped a 14-year-old high school student. He was originally charged with
0:45.8	a felony and a misdemeanor, however those charges were dropped even though he
0:49.8	admitted to having sex with her after she had a lot of alcohol.
0:55.4	So this 14-year-old girl, her name is Daisy Coleman, was left in the cold in
1:00.8	22 degree weather in her front lawn right after she was allegedly raped. She had
1:07.2	gone over to a sleepover with her friend who was 13 years old. She had been
1:11.5	talking to the 17-year-old football player from her high school and while they
1:15.5	were sleeping over they decided let's sneak out of the house and let's go meet
1:18.8	up with these boys. While they met up they continued to drink and at some point
1:24.2	Daisy Coleman lost consciousness. She did not know what was going on and neither
1:27.8	did the 13-year-old girl that she went to this get together with. That was when
1:32.5	she allegedly had sex with the 17-year-old. His name is Matthew Barnett and she
1:39.6	does not recall or remember anything about it. All she remembers is waking up on
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