Alleged Stanford Rapist Says He ‘Wasn’t Trying To Rape,’ Media Focuses On How Much His Victim Drank

[TexasTowelie]

Brock Allen Turner, the Stanford student who has been accused of raping an unconscious woman on campus says his ”intentions were not to try and rape a girl without her consent.” Too bad that sentence makes absolutely no difference whatsoever. It’s also too bad the media is already vilifying his victim for drinking too much. This is rape culture, folks.

Rape culture has a subtle, pervasive way of permeating everything. If you are unfamiliar with the term, it speaks to the way in which society blames victims of sexual assault while normalizing male sexual violence. Its influence leads reporters to begin a story that is about five felony rape counts and an athlete who was essentially caught in the act of committing the alleged crimes like this, from the San Jose Mercury News:

Liquor flowed freely at the Stanford University fraternity party two weeks ago where prosecutors say a student athlete met a young woman who’d joined the revelry with friends and later raped her nearby, according to police reports released Thursday.

“Liquor flowed freely at the Stanford University fraternity party” where a student athlete met a young woman who’d “joined the revelry.” The second paragraph of the story is this:

He drank seven beers with swigs of whiskey. She added a couple shots of liquor to the four she drank before arriving, and then a beer.

You see, it’s important that we start the story this way. It’s important that we know exactly how much alcohol they consumed so we can later say things like, “he was too drunk to really know what he was doing” and “why did she get so drunk that she couldn’t protect herself?” Because rape culture makes sure victims always know it was somehow their fault. It makes sure society reads that narrative first – the narrative of two drunk people reveling at a party and a victim who was complicit because of the amount of drinks she had.

Read more: http://www.mommyish.com/2015/01/30/alleged-stanford-rapist-says-his-intentions-were-not-to-try-and-rape/

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[TheBlackAdder]

1. Yes, and that stuck out like a sore thumb.

Unless the young woman in question never drank, or rarely drank, consuming seven shots worth of alcohol over a two hour span or more would not have caused her to lose consciousness. Now, I assume a two hour span, because she probably didn't just go there to get wasted. If she had, it might have been an hour. But she drank 4 beers before arriving, had a beer and 'a couple shots' after arriving. To me, this hinted at some form of chemical compound being added to her drink(s).

I have reservations that she drank four beers, traveled, and consumed a beer and two shots in a very short timespan.

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Now, the guy is probably inflating his consumption to show he was not in a faculty to make lucid judgments--but he allowed himself to get in that state. Also, there were times I was completely polluted, at one time having over 20 shots (near poison levels) and I've never had the inclination to assault a woman. So, the addition of alcohol (in my mind) is just used as an excuse to perpetrate heinous acts--due to a defective brain and/or poor parenting or rancid social network.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

2. it would be great to this in a LTTE.

Something smart to break up the stream of CRAP indoctrination.

Might jog a faint memory of how reality used to make sense. Maybe even a ~~Moment of Clarity~~

[BlancheSplanchnik]

3. (kicking/rec for visibility)

Angry fucking visibility

[Judi Lynn]

4. Primitive, dishonest, hypocritical. Label the woman a "slut"

while also scorning women who are NOT "sociable" with the blessed males who are encouraged to whoop it up.

Who can't see past this pompous, ugly, woman-hating crap?