On Thursday morning, my News Feed steadily erupted with headlines similar to this one: “Teenage Girl’s Rape Goes Viral”. As blogs, media outlets, and friends shared the story over and over again, all of their comments were the same.This was horrific. This was sickening. However, none of the statuses expressed surprise that another young woman (technically defined as a child by the law) had been raped and that her attack had been caught on camera. We are no longer surprised by these stories. We have come to understand them as one of the darkest threads of our country’s cultural tapestry. We have accepted that, unfortunately, this is the world we live in today.