That Brock Allen Turner is a dirtbag

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https://mobile.twitter.com/laurenduca/status/739505679635992577

Actually, the father is correct.

Both of them were drunk. Both. She was so drunk, she had no idea of anything, and didn't come-to until she was in the hospital, with no recollection. She was black-out drunk. While no one deserves to be raped, she placed herself in a very dangerous state. I do want to know where her friends were, where her sister was, where ANY responsible person was - probably drunk themselves. It would have been a cold day in hell, in college, when I would have left one of my friends (or a perfect stranger) alone, that dangerously drunk.

His son, in his drunken state, assaulted this girl. Very, very wrong. He IS taking responsibility for his actions. What disturbs me, is not only is she NOT taking responsibility for her own stupidity, but she has all the pity in the world. The net result of that is the message that people can get as stupid-drunk as they want and expect NO harm to come of them. That is NOT a message I have EVER given my children, and ever will.

This statement from the victim? “You took away my worth, my privacy, my energy, my time, my intimacy, my confidence, my own voice, until today,” she read in court from her victim impact statement,

What kind of worth does one have when one is so drunk, one can't even function? What kind of confidence? What kind of intimacy?

And this? "I was the wounded antelope of the herd, completely alone and vulnerable, physically unable to fend for myself, and he chose me."

She completely brushes aside her responsibility in becoming a 'wounded antelope'.


The judge did good in this case.

Probably in the minority on this forum but I completely agree with you. And for her to equate her experience with that if someone who is raped by a stranger (i.e. Pulled off the sidewalk without warning and raped with life threatened) trivializes the latter's assault. These crimes are absolutely different.

Rape is rape. I wasn't pulled off a street by a random but I was drugged and carried unconscious up to his dorm room. You think my experience in the aftermath of my rape is different bc I was drinking that night or bc I left my beer unattended with someone I thought was a friend? The only thing that makes my experience different than the violent stranger rape you describe, is that people like you would blame me for thinking I should be able to go out and have a beer w/o getting raped. Actually, people like you would probably also blame a victim of stranger rape for their clothing or the hour they were walking around at night. This woman was so drunk that she passed out unconscious. he was rejected by other more coherent women's that night - he chose her bc she couldn't fight back. Let me repeat, rape is rape.

The key point is that those other women rejected him and he backed off. He was not trying to force himself on anyone. And Emily Doe was not exactly a babe in the woods herself. She willingly left with this guy and she probably would have willingly engaged in sexual acts with him if she had not passed out. But she did pass out and he kept going...an obvious sexual assault.

This was going to be a regrettable night for Emily Doe whether she met up with this guy or not. If he had just backed off and left her alone she STILL would have been passed out behind a dumpster like a skid row bum.

Regretting a drunk night is way, way, WAY different than being raped.

She could have been the Virgin Mary and people like you would still find a way to rationalize that it was her fault.

Do you not get that having a drunk night where you remember nothing is allowing other people to take advantage of you if they want? What he did isn't fair, right, or legal. He's a criminal. Why put your trust in a (potential) criminal?

Do you not get that college kids make mistakes and do stupid things? Why do you focus so much on her behavior, rather than the behavior of her rapist? Why is the most important issue to you what she did to deserve what happened to her? Why spend all of your time raking a woman over the coals for being stupid, as if that were the same thing as the man's behavior for being a rapist?

Women don't just get raped when they are drunk. Women get raped when they are sober, too. Rape is the problem, not the behavior of women.

You're saying were focusing on her rather than him . He's going to jail, is a convicted felon on the sex offender registry. He's being punished. Why shouldn't we also talk about her?

There you go again, equating her behavior to his. The last time I checked getting drunk isn't illegal. Rape is.

She is the victim. She didn't volunteer for this. She now has PTSD and a life-time of emotional pain. She doesn't deserve to be raked over the coals because you don't approve her behavior. She didn't do anything illegal, unlike Brock.

I'm pretty sure that drunken stumble bumming down public streets is illegal. And passing out on public streets/sidewalks/behind dumpsters is illegal. That doesn't mean that it is o.k. to assault a person passed out on a public sidewalk. Two wrongs clearly do not make a right.

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Anonymous wrote:I think there's a lot of people sympathizing with Brock, because they've behaved similarly in their past. And to call him a rapist is to call yourself a rapist, and no one wants to think of themselves as a rapist.

There also seems to be a lot of people here who don't want to admit that getting blitzed drunk and unconscious for hours is very dangerous. No one wants to think of themselves that way.

No one has claimed that getting drunk and passing out is good behavior. NO ONE. Doesn't have anything to do with this guy's guilt.

and I didn't say it did.

Every time you post, you excuse the rapist's behavior. You are part of the problem that led this guy to think that this was okay.

not this girl

me either. I have not excused his behavior in any of my posts

It's worse. Your posts aid and abet this kind of behavior. When you focus on what the victim did or didn't do, you excuse the rapist's behavior. When you state that something bad was bound to happen because she was drunk, you equate her rape to a bad hang-over. You create an environment where the woman is blamed for her own rape and where what happened to her is minimized.

You help rapists rape.

Not the PP, but go take your meds. You should also apologize to PP for this lunatic crap you are spewing at her. She isn't the person who assaulted you. Take your anger elsewhere.

She and her fellow travelers excuse rapists for their behavior. They create an environment where rapists can rape. That's not anger. That's a fact.

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Anonymous wrote:I think there's a lot of people sympathizing with Brock, because they've behaved similarly in their past. And to call him a rapist is to call yourself a rapist, and no one wants to think of themselves as a rapist.

There also seems to be a lot of people here who don't want to admit that getting blitzed drunk and unconscious for hours is very dangerous. No one wants to think of themselves that way.

No one has claimed that getting drunk and passing out is good behavior. NO ONE. Doesn't have anything to do with this guy's guilt.

and I didn't say it did.

Every time you post, you excuse the rapist's behavior. You are part of the problem that led this guy to think that this was okay.

not this girl

me either. I have not excused his behavior in any of my posts

It's worse. Your posts aid and abet this kind of behavior. When you focus on what the victim did or didn't do, you excuse the rapist's behavior. When you state that something bad was bound to happen because she was drunk, you equate her rape to a bad hang-over. You create an environment where the woman is blamed for her own rape and where what happened to her is minimized.

You help rapists rape.

Truly, your words are despicable and false. You have no idea who I am or what I do or what I've experienced.

I don't need to know who you are. I can see what you do. You are here on this thread, creating and maintaining rape culture. You help rapists rape.

Women need to think smart and strong. Encouraging them to think otherwise is very, very foolish and dangerous.

I agree. and it doesn't mean I blame her. I don't. What he did was wrong - OBVIOUSLY.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the PP's comparison to drunken driving is apt.

Horse shit.

Getting drunk and driving and killing or injuring someone in a crash is awful, but it's still not deliberate violence. Getting drunk and raping someone is deliberate violence.

Interesting perspective

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https://mobile.twitter.com/laurenduca/status/739505679635992577

Actually, the father is correct.

Both of them were drunk. Both. She was so drunk, she had no idea of anything, and didn't come-to until she was in the hospital, with no recollection. She was black-out drunk. While no one deserves to be raped, she placed herself in a very dangerous state. I do want to know where her friends were, where her sister was, where ANY responsible person was - probably drunk themselves. It would have been a cold day in hell, in college, when I would have left one of my friends (or a perfect stranger) alone, that dangerously drunk.

His son, in his drunken state, assaulted this girl. Very, very wrong. He IS taking responsibility for his actions. What disturbs me, is not only is she NOT taking responsibility for her own stupidity, but she has all the pity in the world. The net result of that is the message that people can get as stupid-drunk as they want and expect NO harm to come of them. That is NOT a message I have EVER given my children, and ever will.

This statement from the victim? “You took away my worth, my privacy, my energy, my time, my intimacy, my confidence, my own voice, until today,” she read in court from her victim impact statement,

What kind of worth does one have when one is so drunk, one can't even function? What kind of confidence? What kind of intimacy?

And this? "I was the wounded antelope of the herd, completely alone and vulnerable, physically unable to fend for myself, and he chose me."

She completely brushes aside her responsibility in becoming a 'wounded antelope'.


The judge did good in this case.

Probably in the minority on this forum but I completely agree with you. And for her to equate her experience with that if someone who is raped by a stranger (i.e. Pulled off the sidewalk without warning and raped with life threatened) trivializes the latter's assault. These crimes are absolutely different.

Rape is rape. I wasn't pulled off a street by a random but I was drugged and carried unconscious up to his dorm room. You think my experience in the aftermath of my rape is different bc I was drinking that night or bc I left my beer unattended with someone I thought was a friend? The only thing that makes my experience different than the violent stranger rape you describe, is that people like you would blame me for thinking I should be able to go out and have a beer w/o getting raped. Actually, people like you would probably also blame a victim of stranger rape for their clothing or the hour they were walking around at night. This woman was so drunk that she passed out unconscious. he was rejected by other more coherent women's that night - he chose her bc she couldn't fight back. Let me repeat, rape is rape.

The key point is that those other women rejected him and he backed off. He was not trying to force himself on anyone. And Emily Doe was not exactly a babe in the woods herself. She willingly left with this guy and she probably would have willingly engaged in sexual acts with him if she had not passed out. But she did pass out and he kept going...an obvious sexual assault.

This was going to be a regrettable night for Emily Doe whether she met up with this guy or not. If he had just backed off and left her alone she STILL would have been passed out behind a dumpster like a skid row bum.

He backed off because the other ones verbally rejected him. Daunted, he just went and found a girl who wasn't in great condition so he could take advantage of her, which he did. Please stop acting like he was some fine gentleman who called on ladies who were otherwise occupied and went about his merry way. He was a rapist who sought a victim and found one.

She was a college grad (or drop out) who had been to plenty of these parties before. I really don't see her as the "wounded antelope". I see him as a drunk, horny guy who jumped at the chance to leave a party with a woman with the purpose of having consensual sex. He didn't drag her out of there, they left together and probably fooled around a bit until she passed out. Instead of stopping he assaulted her.

Rapists generally don't go around parties making their intentions to rape clear to every woman there. But guys looking to hook up with willing women are a bit more obvious. Every woman at that party knew that this guy wanted action. And Emily Doe left with him...she probably was open to some action herself. But that ceased to be the case when she no longer knew what was happening to her.

see there is no way you can know this. we DON"T KNOW how they ended up behind the dumpster.

You seriously don't think that it wouldn't have been mentioned at the trial if someone had seen him dragging/carrying a passed out Emily Doe out of that party? I am going by what people actually did see him doing. I am also going by what I know to be fairly typical at these kinds of parties. The guy was coming onto women, most were rejecting him and apparently Emily Doe went with him. He didn't kidnap her, they left together. And at some point after that she passed out and wound up lying behind a dumpster being assaulted.

I didn't say that he dragged her. I didn't say that she went willingly. I said we DON'T KNOW.

But we do know that the twelve jurors, who heard all the evidence, unanimously found him guilty of three counts of felony sexual assault.

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Anonymous wrote:I think there's a lot of people sympathizing with Brock, because they've behaved similarly in their past. And to call him a rapist is to call yourself a rapist, and no one wants to think of themselves as a rapist.

There also seems to be a lot of people here who don't want to admit that getting blitzed drunk and unconscious for hours is very dangerous. No one wants to think of themselves that way.

No one has claimed that getting drunk and passing out is good behavior. NO ONE. Doesn't have anything to do with this guy's guilt.

and I didn't say it did.

Every time you post, you excuse the rapist's behavior. You are part of the problem that led this guy to think that this was okay.

not this girl

me either. I have not excused his behavior in any of my posts

It's worse. Your posts aid and abet this kind of behavior. When you focus on what the victim did or didn't do, you excuse the rapist's behavior. When you state that something bad was bound to happen because she was drunk, you equate her rape to a bad hang-over. You create an environment where the woman is blamed for her own rape and where what happened to her is minimized.

You help rapists rape.

Not the PP, but go take your meds. You should also apologize to PP for this lunatic crap you are spewing at her. She isn't the person who assaulted you. Take your anger elsewhere.

She and her fellow travelers excuse rapists for their behavior. They create an environment where rapists can rape. That's not anger. That's a fact.

having a discussion on dcum creates an environment where rapists can rape? are you insane? Ok let's go your route - let's NOT discuss it. let's shove it under the carpet.

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https://mobile.twitter.com/laurenduca/status/739505679635992577

Actually, the father is correct.

Both of them were drunk. Both. She was so drunk, she had no idea of anything, and didn't come-to until she was in the hospital, with no recollection. She was black-out drunk. While no one deserves to be raped, she placed herself in a very dangerous state. I do want to know where her friends were, where her sister was, where ANY responsible person was - probably drunk themselves. It would have been a cold day in hell, in college, when I would have left one of my friends (or a perfect stranger) alone, that dangerously drunk.

His son, in his drunken state, assaulted this girl. Very, very wrong. He IS taking responsibility for his actions. What disturbs me, is not only is she NOT taking responsibility for her own stupidity, but she has all the pity in the world. The net result of that is the message that people can get as stupid-drunk as they want and expect NO harm to come of them. That is NOT a message I have EVER given my children, and ever will.

This statement from the victim? “You took away my worth, my privacy, my energy, my time, my intimacy, my confidence, my own voice, until today,” she read in court from her victim impact statement,

What kind of worth does one have when one is so drunk, one can't even function? What kind of confidence? What kind of intimacy?

And this? "I was the wounded antelope of the herd, completely alone and vulnerable, physically unable to fend for myself, and he chose me."

She completely brushes aside her responsibility in becoming a 'wounded antelope'.


The judge did good in this case.

Probably in the minority on this forum but I completely agree with you. And for her to equate her experience with that if someone who is raped by a stranger (i.e. Pulled off the sidewalk without warning and raped with life threatened) trivializes the latter's assault. These crimes are absolutely different.

Rape is rape. I wasn't pulled off a street by a random but I was drugged and carried unconscious up to his dorm room. You think my experience in the aftermath of my rape is different bc I was drinking that night or bc I left my beer unattended with someone I thought was a friend? The only thing that makes my experience different than the violent stranger rape you describe, is that people like you would blame me for thinking I should be able to go out and have a beer w/o getting raped. Actually, people like you would probably also blame a victim of stranger rape for their clothing or the hour they were walking around at night. This woman was so drunk that she passed out unconscious. he was rejected by other more coherent women's that night - he chose her bc she couldn't fight back. Let me repeat, rape is rape.

The key point is that those other women rejected him and he backed off. He was not trying to force himself on anyone. And Emily Doe was not exactly a babe in the woods herself. She willingly left with this guy and she probably would have willingly engaged in sexual acts with him if she had not passed out. But she did pass out and he kept going...an obvious sexual assault.

This was going to be a regrettable night for Emily Doe whether she met up with this guy or not. If he had just backed off and left her alone she STILL would have been passed out behind a dumpster like a skid row bum.

Regretting a drunk night is way, way, WAY different than being raped.

She could have been the Virgin Mary and people like you would still find a way to rationalize that it was her fault.

Do you not get that having a drunk night where you remember nothing is allowing other people to take advantage of you if they want? What he did isn't fair, right, or legal. He's a criminal. Why put your trust in a (potential) criminal?

Do you not get that college kids make mistakes and do stupid things? Why do you focus so much on her behavior, rather than the behavior of her rapist? Why is the most important issue to you what she did to deserve what happened to her? Why spend all of your time raking a woman over the coals for being stupid, as if that were the same thing as the man's behavior for being a rapist?

Women don't just get raped when they are drunk. Women get raped when they are sober, too. Rape is the problem, not the behavior of women.

You're saying were focusing on her rather than him . He's going to jail, is a convicted felon on the sex offender registry. He's being punished. Why shouldn't we also talk about her?

There you go again, equating her behavior to his. The last time I checked getting drunk isn't illegal. Rape is.

She is the victim. She didn't volunteer for this. She now has PTSD and a life-time of emotional pain. She doesn't deserve to be raked over the coals because you don't approve her behavior. She didn't do anything illegal, unlike Brock.

I'm pretty sure that drunken stumble bumming down public streets is illegal. And passing out on public streets/sidewalks/behind dumpsters is illegal. That doesn't mean that it is o.k. to assault a person passed out on a public sidewalk. Two wrongs clearly do not make a right.

Getting drunk is not even remotely equivalent to raping someone. One is a public nuisance that harms the person doing it. The other one is a felony that creates a lifetime of harm for the victim.

Stop equating rape to a misdemeanor. It wasn't 20 minutes of action. It was a felony assault.

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Anonymous wrote:Holy. Shit.

https://mobile.twitter.com/laurenduca/status/739505679635992577

Actually, the father is correct.

Both of them were drunk. Both. She was so drunk, she had no idea of anything, and didn't come-to until she was in the hospital, with no recollection. She was black-out drunk. While no one deserves to be raped, she placed herself in a very dangerous state. I do want to know where her friends were, where her sister was, where ANY responsible person was - probably drunk themselves. It would have been a cold day in hell, in college, when I would have left one of my friends (or a perfect stranger) alone, that dangerously drunk.

His son, in his drunken state, assaulted this girl. Very, very wrong. He IS taking responsibility for his actions. What disturbs me, is not only is she NOT taking responsibility for her own stupidity, but she has all the pity in the world. The net result of that is the message that people can get as stupid-drunk as they want and expect NO harm to come of them. That is NOT a message I have EVER given my children, and ever will.

This statement from the victim? “You took away my worth, my privacy, my energy, my time, my intimacy, my confidence, my own voice, until today,” she read in court from her victim impact statement,

What kind of worth does one have when one is so drunk, one can't even function? What kind of confidence? What kind of intimacy?

And this? "I was the wounded antelope of the herd, completely alone and vulnerable, physically unable to fend for myself, and he chose me."

She completely brushes aside her responsibility in becoming a 'wounded antelope'.


The judge did good in this case.

Probably in the minority on this forum but I completely agree with you. And for her to equate her experience with that if someone who is raped by a stranger (i.e. Pulled off the sidewalk without warning and raped with life threatened) trivializes the latter's assault. These crimes are absolutely different.

Rape is rape. I wasn't pulled off a street by a random but I was drugged and carried unconscious up to his dorm room. You think my experience in the aftermath of my rape is different bc I was drinking that night or bc I left my beer unattended with someone I thought was a friend? The only thing that makes my experience different than the violent stranger rape you describe, is that people like you would blame me for thinking I should be able to go out and have a beer w/o getting raped. Actually, people like you would probably also blame a victim of stranger rape for their clothing or the hour they were walking around at night. This woman was so drunk that she passed out unconscious. he was rejected by other more coherent women's that night - he chose her bc she couldn't fight back. Let me repeat, rape is rape.

The key point is that those other women rejected him and he backed off. He was not trying to force himself on anyone. And Emily Doe was not exactly a babe in the woods herself. She willingly left with this guy and she probably would have willingly engaged in sexual acts with him if she had not passed out. But she did pass out and he kept going...an obvious sexual assault.

This was going to be a regrettable night for Emily Doe whether she met up with this guy or not. If he had just backed off and left her alone she STILL would have been passed out behind a dumpster like a skid row bum.

Regretting a drunk night is way, way, WAY different than being raped.

She could have been the Virgin Mary and people like you would still find a way to rationalize that it was her fault.

Do you not get that having a drunk night where you remember nothing is allowing other people to take advantage of you if they want? What he did isn't fair, right, or legal. He's a criminal. Why put your trust in a (potential) criminal?

Do you not get that college kids make mistakes and do stupid things? Why do you focus so much on her behavior, rather than the behavior of her rapist? Why is the most important issue to you what she did to deserve what happened to her? Why spend all of your time raking a woman over the coals for being stupid, as if that were the same thing as the man's behavior for being a rapist?

Women don't just get raped when they are drunk. Women get raped when they are sober, too. Rape is the problem, not the behavior of women.

You're saying were focusing on her rather than him . He's going to jail, is a convicted felon on the sex offender registry. He's being punished. Why shouldn't we also talk about her?

There you go again, equating her behavior to his. The last time I checked getting drunk isn't illegal. Rape is.

She is the victim. She didn't volunteer for this. She now has PTSD and a life-time of emotional pain. She doesn't deserve to be raked over the coals because you don't approve her behavior. She didn't do anything illegal, unlike Brock.

I'm pretty sure that drunken stumble bumming down public streets is illegal. And passing out on public streets/sidewalks/behind dumpsters is illegal. That doesn't mean that it is o.k. to assault a person passed out on a public sidewalk. Two wrongs clearly do not make a right.

What? No it isn't.

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Anonymous wrote:I think there's a lot of people sympathizing with Brock, because they've behaved similarly in their past. And to call him a rapist is to call yourself a rapist, and no one wants to think of themselves as a rapist.

There also seems to be a lot of people here who don't want to admit that getting blitzed drunk and unconscious for hours is very dangerous. No one wants to think of themselves that way.

No one has claimed that getting drunk and passing out is good behavior. NO ONE. Doesn't have anything to do with this guy's guilt.

and I didn't say it did.

Every time you post, you excuse the rapist's behavior. You are part of the problem that led this guy to think that this was okay.

not this girl

me either. I have not excused his behavior in any of my posts

It's worse. Your posts aid and abet this kind of behavior. When you focus on what the victim did or didn't do, you excuse the rapist's behavior. When you state that something bad was bound to happen because she was drunk, you equate her rape to a bad hang-over. You create an environment where the woman is blamed for her own rape and where what happened to her is minimized.

You help rapists rape.

Not the PP, but go take your meds. You should also apologize to PP for this lunatic crap you are spewing at her. She isn't the person who assaulted you. Take your anger elsewhere.

She and her fellow travelers excuse rapists for their behavior. They create an environment where rapists can rape. That's not anger. That's a fact.

NO BODY is excusing this kid. Go take your meds and see if they help your reading comprehension. Then you can also apologize to PP.

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Anonymous wrote:Holy. Shit.

https://mobile.twitter.com/laurenduca/status/739505679635992577

Actually, the father is correct.

Both of them were drunk. Both. She was so drunk, she had no idea of anything, and didn't come-to until she was in the hospital, with no recollection. She was black-out drunk. While no one deserves to be raped, she placed herself in a very dangerous state. I do want to know where her friends were, where her sister was, where ANY responsible person was - probably drunk themselves. It would have been a cold day in hell, in college, when I would have left one of my friends (or a perfect stranger) alone, that dangerously drunk.

His son, in his drunken state, assaulted this girl. Very, very wrong. He IS taking responsibility for his actions. What disturbs me, is not only is she NOT taking responsibility for her own stupidity, but she has all the pity in the world. The net result of that is the message that people can get as stupid-drunk as they want and expect NO harm to come of them. That is NOT a message I have EVER given my children, and ever will.

This statement from the victim? “You took away my worth, my privacy, my energy, my time, my intimacy, my confidence, my own voice, until today,” she read in court from her victim impact statement,

What kind of worth does one have when one is so drunk, one can't even function? What kind of confidence? What kind of intimacy?

And this? "I was the wounded antelope of the herd, completely alone and vulnerable, physically unable to fend for myself, and he chose me."

She completely brushes aside her responsibility in becoming a 'wounded antelope'.


The judge did good in this case.

Probably in the minority on this forum but I completely agree with you. And for her to equate her experience with that if someone who is raped by a stranger (i.e. Pulled off the sidewalk without warning and raped with life threatened) trivializes the latter's assault. These crimes are absolutely different.

Rape is rape. I wasn't pulled off a street by a random but I was drugged and carried unconscious up to his dorm room. You think my experience in the aftermath of my rape is different bc I was drinking that night or bc I left my beer unattended with someone I thought was a friend? The only thing that makes my experience different than the violent stranger rape you describe, is that people like you would blame me for thinking I should be able to go out and have a beer w/o getting raped. Actually, people like you would probably also blame a victim of stranger rape for their clothing or the hour they were walking around at night. This woman was so drunk that she passed out unconscious. he was rejected by other more coherent women's that night - he chose her bc she couldn't fight back. Let me repeat, rape is rape.

The key point is that those other women rejected him and he backed off. He was not trying to force himself on anyone. And Emily Doe was not exactly a babe in the woods herself. She willingly left with this guy and she probably would have willingly engaged in sexual acts with him if she had not passed out. But she did pass out and he kept going...an obvious sexual assault.

This was going to be a regrettable night for Emily Doe whether she met up with this guy or not. If he had just backed off and left her alone she STILL would have been passed out behind a dumpster like a skid row bum.

He backed off because the other ones verbally rejected him. Daunted, he just went and found a girl who wasn't in great condition so he could take advantage of her, which he did. Please stop acting like he was some fine gentleman who called on ladies who were otherwise occupied and went about his merry way. He was a rapist who sought a victim and found one.

She was a college grad (or drop out) who had been to plenty of these parties before. I really don't see her as the "wounded antelope". I see him as a drunk, horny guy who jumped at the chance to leave a party with a woman with the purpose of having consensual sex. He didn't drag her out of there, they left together and probably fooled around a bit until she passed out. Instead of stopping he assaulted her.

Rapists generally don't go around parties making their intentions to rape clear to every woman there. But guys looking to hook up with willing women are a bit more obvious. Every woman at that party knew that this guy wanted action. And Emily Doe left with him...she probably was open to some action herself. But that ceased to be the case when she no longer knew what was happening to her.

see there is no way you can know this. we DON"T KNOW how they ended up behind the dumpster.

You seriously don't think that it wouldn't have been mentioned at the trial if someone had seen him dragging/carrying a passed out Emily Doe out of that party? I am going by what people actually did see him doing. I am also going by what I know to be fairly typical at these kinds of parties. The guy was coming onto women, most were rejecting him and apparently Emily Doe went with him. He didn't kidnap her, they left together. And at some point after that she passed out and wound up lying behind a dumpster being assaulted.

I didn't say that he dragged her. I didn't say that she went willingly. I said we DON'T KNOW.

But we do know that the twelve jurors, who heard all the evidence, unanimously found him guilty of three counts of felony sexual assault.

no shit. Saying I don't know how they got behind the dumpster isn't saying anything about guilt. I'm tired of people surmising what happened. We don't know how they got there. We do know he assaulted her. why is this so HARD to understand?

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Anonymous wrote:I think there's a lot of people sympathizing with Brock, because they've behaved similarly in their past. And to call him a rapist is to call yourself a rapist, and no one wants to think of themselves as a rapist.

There also seems to be a lot of people here who don't want to admit that getting blitzed drunk and unconscious for hours is very dangerous. No one wants to think of themselves that way.

No one has claimed that getting drunk and passing out is good behavior. NO ONE. Doesn't have anything to do with this guy's guilt.

and I didn't say it did.

Every time you post, you excuse the rapist's behavior. You are part of the problem that led this guy to think that this was okay.

not this girl

me either. I have not excused his behavior in any of my posts

It's worse. Your posts aid and abet this kind of behavior. When you focus on what the victim did or didn't do, you excuse the rapist's behavior. When you state that something bad was bound to happen because she was drunk, you equate her rape to a bad hang-over. You create an environment where the woman is blamed for her own rape and where what happened to her is minimized.

You help rapists rape.

Not the PP, but go take your meds. You should also apologize to PP for this lunatic crap you are spewing at her. She isn't the person who assaulted you. Take your anger elsewhere.

She and her fellow travelers excuse rapists for their behavior. They create an environment where rapists can rape. That's not anger. That's a fact.

having a discussion on dcum creates an environment where rapists can rape? are you insane? Ok let's go your route - let's NOT discuss it. let's shove it under the carpet.

It creates a culture in which victims are told every single day that if they are raped, it was their fault. They should have dressed differently or gone somewhere else or talked to a different guy or had fewer drinks. It focuses on the victim and not the victimizer. It creates an environment where victims can't come forward because they have learned through the culture that victims are to blame for their own rapes.

It's weird that you can't talk about rape without blaming the victim.

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This was going to be a regrettable night for Emily Doe whether she met up with this guy or not. If he had just backed off and left her alone she STILL would have been passed out behind a dumpster like a skid row bum.

And you know this how? Did she tell you she was planning to pass out behind a dumpster? Do you feel good about yourself for disparaging another human being?

She drank until she passed out. She passed out because she drank. She was going to pass out somewhere. As it turns out, she left a party alone with a 19 year old college kid who had no intention of bringing her back to his dorm room. She may have walked herself behind that dumpster to fool around with him and passed out while they were fooling around, she may have passed out on the sidewalk or in an alleyway or...anywhere. She could have met up with someone a lot scarier and more violent than Brock.

Do you not see that she made choices that were not going to end well for her that night? I am not "disparaging" this woman but she was not doing a good job of looking out for herself and she is responsible for some of the regrettable choices made that night. She did not deserve to get assaulted - nor is her assailant getting away with assaulting her. But she also is responsible for own regrettable actions.

It's not disparaging to compare a woman who was sexually attacked while unconscious to a skid row bum? Really?

She passed out on a public street like a skid row bum. She did. That did not give this guy the right to assault her. But SHE is the one who drank herself into oblivion and passed out on a public street. To gloss over and give her a pass for allowing herself to get into such a state is a big mistake. That is my point. No one is saying that this excuses the actions of Brock. Brock is clearly responsible for what HE did. He is not responsible for what she did to herself.

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On that basis, it seems like the Stanford guy should be held responsible for any and all crimes he committed while intoxicated, even if he's unlikely to do anything like that ever again and even if it was the alcohol that impaired his judgment.

But I agree with some of the PPs about the responsibility of the woman in this situation. Not legal responsibility of course, but personal responsibility. Her impaired judgment played a huge role in what happened to her, and her choices caused that impaired judgment. (As opposed to someone who is drugged without their knowledge or someone who is mentally impaired.)

Anyone who gets hit by a bus is a victim, and deserves sympathy as well as justice. But if you were high or drunk out of your mind and wandering in the middle of the street, you are partially responsible for what has happened to you. Getting blackout drunk isn't the same thing as wearing a short skirt.

I say that as someone who did a lot of stupid things in college, and I look at this woman and think there but for the grace of God....Hopefully all our kids, both boys and girls, will look at this story and take the lesson that binge drinking is a ticket to terrible, terrible situations.

This is disgusting and ignorant. I don't think anybody would agree that it was a great idea for her to be blackout drunk. But that doesn't mean she deserved to be raped. The problem here is not that she got drunk, it's that this guy thought he could rape her. Rape is not okay. Ever. It's not excused. Ever. It's illegal. Just because she was drunk does not then mean she should be raped. She was a victim, you idiot. If she's supposed to know better by not getting so drunk, why should he not know better than to commit a crime? Rape is rape. It's illegal. Doesn't matter what the victim was doing. Period. She was raped. Illegally. Because rape is illegal. I'm trying to get the point across by saying this multiple ways, but I don't think you'll get it anyway.

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Anonymous wrote:I think there's a lot of people sympathizing with Brock, because they've behaved similarly in their past. And to call him a rapist is to call yourself a rapist, and no one wants to think of themselves as a rapist.

There also seems to be a lot of people here who don't want to admit that getting blitzed drunk and unconscious for hours is very dangerous. No one wants to think of themselves that way.

No one has claimed that getting drunk and passing out is good behavior. NO ONE. Doesn't have anything to do with this guy's guilt.

and I didn't say it did.

Every time you post, you excuse the rapist's behavior. You are part of the problem that led this guy to think that this was okay.

not this girl

me either. I have not excused his behavior in any of my posts

It's worse. Your posts aid and abet this kind of behavior. When you focus on what the victim did or didn't do, you excuse the rapist's behavior. When you state that something bad was bound to happen because she was drunk, you equate her rape to a bad hang-over. You create an environment where the woman is blamed for her own rape and where what happened to her is minimized.

You help rapists rape.

Not the PP, but go take your meds. You should also apologize to PP for this lunatic crap you are spewing at her. She isn't the person who assaulted you. Take your anger elsewhere.

She and her fellow travelers excuse rapists for their behavior. They create an environment where rapists can rape. That's not anger. That's a fact.

having a discussion on dcum creates an environment where rapists can rape? are you insane? Ok let's go your route - let's NOT discuss it. let's shove it under the carpet.

It creates a culture in which victims are told every single day that if they are raped, it was their fault. They should have dressed differently or gone somewhere else or talked to a different guy or had fewer drinks. It focuses on the victim and not the victimizer. It creates an environment where victims can't come forward because they have learned through the culture that victims are to blame for their own rapes.

It's weird that you can't talk about rape without blaming the victim.

see I'm not blaming the victim. you don't know who I am or what I've posted. But sure go ahead and make your assumptions because that is definitely going to help people understand your point....

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This was going to be a regrettable night for Emily Doe whether she met up with this guy or not. If he had just backed off and left her alone she STILL would have been passed out behind a dumpster like a skid row bum.

And you know this how? Did she tell you she was planning to pass out behind a dumpster? Do you feel good about yourself for disparaging another human being?

She drank until she passed out. She passed out because she drank. She was going to pass out somewhere. As it turns out, she left a party alone with a 19 year old college kid who had no intention of bringing her back to his dorm room. She may have walked herself behind that dumpster to fool around with him and passed out while they were fooling around, she may have passed out on the sidewalk or in an alleyway or...anywhere. She could have met up with someone a lot scarier and more violent than Brock.

Do you not see that she made choices that were not going to end well for her that night? I am not "disparaging" this woman but she was not doing a good job of looking out for herself and she is responsible for some of the regrettable choices made that night. She did not deserve to get assaulted - nor is her assailant getting away with assaulting her. But she also is responsible for own regrettable actions.

It's not disparaging to compare a woman who was sexually attacked while unconscious to a skid row bum? Really?

She passed out on a public street like a skid row bum. She did. That did not give this guy the right to assault her. But SHE is the one who drank herself into oblivion and passed out on a public street. To gloss over and give her a pass for allowing herself to get into such a state is a big mistake. That is my point. No one is saying that this excuses the actions of Brock. Brock is clearly responsible for what HE did. He is not responsible for what she did to herself.

She is responsible, even for the parts she doesn't remember. Or is she too weak and vulnerable to be responsible?