Brock Turner is everywhere--what it's like living in Rape Culture
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/06/brock-turner-is-everywhere-heres-what-its-like-to-live-inside-nightmare-of-rape-culture/Brock Turner was accused of dragging an unconscious woman behind a dumpster and having sex with her without her consent. He also inserted foreign objects into her vagina. How is it politically correct to see this as rape? And how is Brock Turner the victim in all of this?
It turns out, he’s one of many rapists who get treated as the victims. Many, many men have been “victimized” by being accused of rape after they raped women. Luckily, for many of them–especially those who are college students, or who may be white, or a famous athlete, or rich–law enforcement and the judicial system has many ways that these “victims” can get out of jail free. The system has been set up so that rape, despite the numbers, despite the horror and fear and pain that it causes, is still the crime where the victim of rape can expect to have to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that she did not want to be violated.
The fact that the Stanford rapist’s father doesn’t think his son’s life should be ruined for “20 minutes of action,” and that Judge Persky ruled that more than six months in a county jail would have a “severe impact” on the rapist, Brock, has sparked internet rage. But how many are aware that in cases such as this, being wary of the impact of the sentence upon the rapist drives many judges to rule in similar ways?
Jon Krakauer wrote Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town as an investigation of what happened in Missoula, Montana between 2010 and 2012. Missoula, a college town, had recorded 80 alleged rapes in three years, including nine separate sexual assaults of University of Montana students (with multiple assailants–some of the cases were gang rapes) in a 16-month period. None of the campus assaults were prosecuted in criminal courts. But, as Krakauer notes in his introduction, “…the number of sexual assaults in Missoula might sound alarming, but if the FBI figures are accurate, it’s actually commonplace. Rape, it turns out, occurs with appalling frequency throughout the United States.”
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If you are not absolutely morally repulsed by the very idea of a guy seeking to have sex with an unconscious woman, then you are beyond the reach of reason. Maybe you wouldn't be so legalistic if it happened to your own daughter.
I guess if I ever came across a well-dressed businessman who had gotten drunk and passed out in an alley somewhere, there would be no problem with me helping myself to the contents of his wallet. Why not? (Actually, the rape is worse than the theft. But, of course, Men's Rights Activists and their supporters lack empathy for the victims of rape. After all, women's bodies are just a commodity to be used at the discretion of men. 
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But please be careful. Some people (including some DU members) don't like to hear that many fraternities and school sports programs have a rape culture. Football, particularly, is downright sacred. Careful, or the sports fans will get upset! 
