>I'm not as good at this as you are...........but here goes
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>Scenario:
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>Mary goes out with the captain of the football team While necking after their date, the football captain rapes her.
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>1957: Mary tells the Principal who tells her she's a slut. Besides, the team can't win without its star player
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>2008: Mary tell the Principal who calls the police who then arrest the rapist. The other girls are questioned to see who else has been raped. The rapist goes to prison for only a fraction of the time he deserves, but at least he doesn't get congratulated for being a stud.
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>Scenario:
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>It becomes common knowledge that Johnny is gay
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>1957: The football team herds Johnny into the bathroom and pounds him to a pulp. After four or five times, Johnny goes out and slits his wrist. Football team congratulates itself that "we rid of one of them."
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>2008: Nothing at all happens
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>
>Scenario:
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>The son of a black sharecropper is seen looking at a white women "strangely"
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>1957: He's never seen again
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>2008: They are now dating.
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>
>All in all..........I'll take 2008
>

Good riposte! :-)

IOW It ain't all that bad nowadays and the "good ole days" weren't necessarily so good.