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“It could have been much worse.”

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A new Rolling Stone profile of Serena Williams reveals the tennis champion’s take on the Steubenville, Ohio, rape case that may have women’s groups up in arms. “I’m not blaming the girl, but if you’re a 16-year-old and you’re drunk like that, your parents should teach you—don’t take drinks from other people,” Williams said. She went on to say that the victim shouldn’t have put herself “in that position, unless they slipped her something, then that’s different.” Williams also had some tough comments for her fellow tennis players saying that some of them need to “give it a rest.”

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