On The Brock Turner Rape Case

Think about what a Facebook friend had to say about the case of Brock Turner.....

"The whole Brock Turner case has been bothering me for days. I've got nieces, coworkers and friends in the same age group, after all. The more I read about it, the more incensed I get.

Rape is sexual assault. If you have sex with someone without their consent, that's rape. If someone isn't aware of what you're doing to them sexually because they're drunk/unconscious/drugged, that's rape.

It doesn't matter whether it was "20 minutes of action", or five minutes or ten. How long it lasted does not lessen what it is.

You've probably read about his amazing swim times, then 20 minutes of action. Are we supposed to applaud that 20 minutes or feel sorry that it was just 20 minutes of action?

Dude redefined "dumb jock" all the more and made it worse.

Friends with children, say "yes" and "no" to your kids within reason. I know you love them, but not teaching them what "no" means is doing them a disservice. Teach your kids how to say yes and no, even if it means they'll say yes and no to you every now and then.

Once they become teenagers and young adults, they need to know when a yes is a yes and a no is a no."

Brock Turner is the Stanford University swimmer accused and then convicted of raping an unconscious woman.  The judge in his case sentenced him to very little prison time, believing that jail would have a negative impact on him.  Turner's father then said his son was jailed for "20 minutes of action."

What Turner (and his father) obviously fail to understand is that he committed a crime, for which he should have received a harsh prison term, and probably would have, if he was less well known, or well off, or especially if he was a person of color.

If a woman says no to sex, and a man forces himself on her, it is rape.  If a woman is incapacitated, and cannot consent, and a man forces himself on her, it is rape.  How many ways can one possibly say this?

Brock Turner practically got away with committing a crime, when he should have received the same treatment and scrutiny given to Bill Cosby.  Rape is wrong, period.  No means no, period.  If a man doesn't understand this, he has no business going near a woman.

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