This doesn't make you sound better than him. |
Hey, eye for an eye isn't always a bad thing... |
ITA. Wish you could send this to Brock's daddy. |
| His life is already ruined. People should move on and not gloat. What more do you want? Americans are sick and D. Trump may be elected Prez as a result. |
Through his own criminal actions! What do we want? In America we tend to want a punishment commensurate with the crime, not three to six months in jail. |
No one should be raped. |
Yeah, it is. |
California's laws only call it rape if there was penetration by a penis. In many states, any penetration of the body by another person's body part is rape. It technically wasn't rape in California. It would technically be rape if it had occurred in another state. Forcible penetration qualifies as rape for most people. Why is this issue so important to you? You've posted many times "but it wasn't rape" as if that makes what he did more palatable or excusable or defensible. He's a sex offender and a predator. The legal technicalities of what can and can't be charged against him are just that -- legal technicalities. |
Rape is a legal term so calling someone a rapist who didn't meet the legal definition is slander. He seems like a horny guy who got drunk and made bad decisions that technically amounted to assault. If this guy were black the liberals would be falling all over themselves to contextualize his behavior and excuse his conduct. Many people recognize that and continuing to bash this young man with verbal bricks is just one example of why Trump stands a very good chance of being elected President. |
Not exactly true. California's law is more nuanced than that. But because the only provable crime was what the Swedes saw, because the victim could not say anything prior to that was nonconsensual, they dropped the rape charges. Does it matter? Not if rape is rape. If there's a difference between rape and sexual assault and if there are different kinds of rape, then yes. |
You really need to read this whole thread. And if he were black - the black star athlete who did a very similar thing at Vanderbilt got a 15-25-year prison sentence. |
Not very similar. |
One of the things that can protect women from rapists is acknowledging that it's still rape, even if the man is drunk. If men understood that and weren't so easily given a pass on it, maybe they would be more careful not to get so drunk or to be proactive about seeking consent. I know for a fact that, before we started dating, DH refused sexual advances from a woman he was actually dating because he felt that both of them were too drunk to be making choices the wouldn't later regret. Decent men understand that women are human beings...and that understanding doesn't just evaporate because they are drunk. |
Your last paragraph, you got it all wrong. |
OMG, one day later and you are still here responding to every other post about the need to prepare women and minimize risks. Here's the thing, no one is perfect all the time. Even the best of us will do stupid things because we are human. So yes, IT IS IMPORTANT TO TEACH GIRLS HOW TO PROTECT THEMSELVES AND NOT PUT THEMSEVLES IN VULNERABLE POSITIONS. But posters here are angry about a verified sexual assault and all you can do is come back post after post about how girls are putting themselves at risk. |