Personally, I’d think a perfect response would be, “We’ve reconsidered your conviction and found that you must serve MORE time in prison.  I’m sure your bunkmates won’t “intend” on assaulting you either.”

EXACTLY. The idea seems to be that the severity of rape is inversely proportional to how much the rapist got to enjoy him\herself. What in the actual fuck?

I just... I don’t... WHAT? You don’t get to put something in someone’s body without their consent. That’s not a complicated concept. What the hell is with people’s need to make rape a thing with graduated levels?

It’s right up there with the affluenza defense.  Let’s hope this one doesn’t work.

“With this bullshit” needs to be added

DING DING DING WE HAVE A WINNER.

Ugh. They only consider it rape if ‘sex’ has occurred, and to them, ‘sex’ can only mean PIV intercourse. It’s all about their stupid penises.

He barely paid the price for the horror he put that woman through. He should shut the Fuck up and accept he will be a registered sex offender for the duration of his natural life and maybe try to better himself in the process instead of feeling pity for his damn self, maybe he should show remorse for what he did to…

My attacker kept their clothes on. Never mind I was so drunk I wasn’t aware my clothes were being removed, let alone protest.

Yep. Our society’s view of sex is so INCREDIBLY male-centric that it’s not “real sex” unless a penis penetrates a vagina or anus, sex is “finished” when a penis ejaculates. So of course rape is only real rape when a penis penetrates something.

I’m just a 1L, but yeah. This. 

I want them to throw him back in jail because the lawyer’s argument is so bad.

ORRRRRR...... the witnesses couldn’t see his dick because it was inside the victims vagina.

What if (hypothetically) I just dragged him behind a dumpster and (hypothetically) beat the shit out of him?

Back when this happened I ended up in ONE OF THE MOST AWKWARD AND GROSS CONVERSATIONS EVER with someone who was cautiously taking the stance that fingering “isn’t as bad as real rape”, by which of course they meant penis-in-vagina/anus. We slowly parsed this out, and I eventually got them to acknowledge that if a…

I cannot believe how many people I’ve encountered who considered the violation merited a lighter punishment because it was “just fingering”. Including one person who was all for throwing the book at him when they assumed the rape involved a penis, but changed their tune once they got the full details. 

I bet if we shoved a finger into either of these douchebags against their will, they would consider it rape. 

No, Brock and/or Brock’s Lawyer. It’s been established that digital penetration occurred, and with enough force the victim got penetrative injuries and pine needles and “debris” ended up inside her. That’s rape. I’m sorry (hahaha not really) if you feel that fingering shouldn’t really count as real rape and your…

Of for fucks sake. Just put this fool in jail forever already. “I was only kind of trying to rape her” Is not an acceptable legal defense. it’s absolutely appalling, utterly dumb, and offensive to victims of sexual assault.

That JLo photo. She’s pushing 50. That pic is not retouched. That is not a face that has had a ton of work. This woman won all of the lotteries. Oh, she’s known for being genuinely kind. That’s encouraging.