And just when you thought Drumpf was the worst thing in the news

https://mic.com/articles/144393/white-high-school-footballers-allegedly-raped-disabled-black-teammate-in-idaho#.Lz7IoKj7Y

Three white teenage boys at Dietrich High School in Idaho are accused of coaxing a black, mentally disabled teammate into what he thought was a hug in their locker room, before they held him down and raped him in the rectum with a coat hanger on Oct. 23, 2015. Now two of the boys are being charged as adults with “forcible sexual penetration by use of a foreign object.”

The boy accused of holding his teammate down will be charged as a juvenile. However, 17-year-old Tanner Ward is accused of forcibly penetrating the victim with the hanger, while 18-year-old John R. K. Howard allegedly repeatedly kicked the hanger into the victim’s rectum, causing physical harm.

“I screamed,” the victim said during a pretrial hearing in April, according to Magic Valley. “I was pretty upset. I felt really bad. A little bit betrayed and confused at the same time. It was terrible — a pain I’ve never felt.”

The victim’s family is also suing Dietrich High School for $10 million, arguing the rape was the apex of months-long racial bullying and harassment.

The civil complaint alleges he “was taunted and called racist names by other members of the team, which names included ‘Kool-Aid,’ ‘chicken eater,’ ‘watermelon’ and [the N-word],” the Washington Post reports. He was also reportedly forced to sing “Notorious KKK,” a racist, extremist song.

The lawsuit argues that Howard in particular targeted the victim, who, according to the suit, suffers from “mental disorders, including learning disabilities,” and that the school not only failed to thwart the abuse but encouraged it.

I know you don’t want to read about stuff like this. But I can’t help but wonder, WTF? Why would anyone want to hurt another person like that? So physically and intimately. Punishingly. I’ve known fear, but I just can’t see how these actions were caused by fear. I know that most bullies have been bullied themselves, but a hanger in a sexual assault? Why, dudes, why? To feel powerful? To feel sexually powerful? Is it mental illness?

WTF?

What the empowerment of women looks like

This awesome art is about the empowerment of women:

https://mic.com/articles/144315/powerful-poem-exposes-how-rape-culture-defines-college-for-women-before-they-even-start#.iupPHJC7K

https://mic.com/articles/144178/meet-artist-markus-prime-and-his-badass-team-of-black-female-superheroes#.4FRdVZREc

This woman and her fellow governors are taking away other women’s right to choose, stripping all women under their command of their own power. A legal right, decided decades ago.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/south-carolina-20-week-abortion_us_57461464e4b03ede4413c138

CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) – South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley on Wednesday signed into law a bill banning most abortions after 19 weeks of pregnancy unless the mother’s life is at risk, a spokesperson told Reuters on Wednesday. The South Carolina legislature passed the bill last week, the 17th U.S. state to approve such a ban…

https://mic.com/articles/144421/restrictive-reproductive-laws-in-texas-have-resulted-in-as-many-as-240-000-diy-abortions#.hoq3r0nG3

If you want to tell me what I can do with my own body, then you’ll have to put a ring on my finger first. No, scratch that, even as my partner, you have no right to tell me what to do. I won’t tell you what to do with your body, and I expect the same respect.

Ya’ll be careful out there

https://mic.com/articles/144437/here-s-the-scary-truth-about-putting-your-drink-down-at-a-party-as-a-woman#.zgOmMxZYc

The drugging most commonly occurred in someone’s home or apartment, followed by either at a fraternity or a bar. According to the survey, the most common drugs used were roofies, or Rohypnol, and Xanax. Typically, these drugs are undetectable to the naked eye and flavorless.

Often, the victim’s memory of the experience is wiped out. “I only had one drink and blacked out completely,” one female respondent said.

“When I woke up, I was naked next to someone I didn’t know,” she reported. “He was really rude when I woke up and left the house. I felt really strange, like I was in a dream just watching everything happen.”