Rape is Not a Sport

I have had it! Had my fill of reading about rape victims not receiving the justice they deserve. Once again, in my sixth decade of living in not one, but two centuries, I have seen little to advance the plight of women. Rape victims continue to be treated as though they somehow deserved the fate which befell them.

Recently, a 20-year old, white, Stanford University man found guilty of raping an unconscious 23-year old woman was sentenced to six months in jail!!! That's right. Even after a lengthy, impassioned letter from the victim, in which she described the horrible ordeal in sickening detail was read, the judge thought his deed only deserved a slap on the dick. Not even that - a bee sting on his inflated ego.

Actually, I suspect what carried more weight was the letter his daddy wrote on his behalf describing what a fine young man he is (gag) who made a foolish mistake and that he promises to never, ever steal somebody's virtue again (wink, wink.) Why, he's a swimmer, don't you know. Somehow that makes his miserable life more important than hers. Add to the misery are pictures of this bastard, grinning from ear to ear.

Granted, I do not know him. He may be a perfectly nice young man.....WAIT A MINUTE! - did I just have a mini stroke?! Calling him a "nice young man" is equivalent to saying Hitler was an artist so he must have had a soul. We all know what a soulless creature he really was. And I suspect this rapist guy is far from "nice" - or a one-time offender.

Somewhere along the line, he was either taught, or decided women are nothing more than holes in which to shove his miserable penis. It doesn't even matter if they're willing or unwilling; conscious or in a coma. This is despicable behavior and the judge who gave him such a light sentence should be disbarred. I think put in front of a firing squad, but that's me.

Society may tolerate this type of injustice - shoot, we're the same idiots who still judge a person by the amount of melanin in their skin or by the person to whom they are attracted - but that doesn't make it right anymore than racism or judgementalism is the way to salvation.

Something has to change, folks. It just has to.