“Political correctness” = I can’t continue to be an asshole without being called out on my shit.

The little fact that got me was that one of the guys who found her couldn’t give his statement when the police arrived because he was crying so hard. There is a man who was assaulting an unconscious woman and his family and friends keep telling us how good a guy he was and then there is a man who chased him down and…

Can we just have a moment to thank the universe for THOSE two men. Those two who could have just kept walking. Could have just let him go. Can we have more of those men?

I wonder how many of their former classmates have read this and thought WTF? I’m expecting a rebuttal from one of them any day now. Something along the lines of ‘Brock Turner has always been an entitled dickwad surrounded by sycophantic friends’

I also don’t understand what she’s trying to say here. It’s not coherent. Is she arguing that rape happens, but is not perpetrated by rapists?

It’s really fucking awful that as a society we have reached a point where you can catch someone being raped and still manage to downplay it.

One of the guys who helped her was found sobbing when the police got there because he was so upset about what he saw. Let’s dwell on that for a second. Mr. Rapist Brock Tuner tried to claim it was consensual but when two guys found them, Convicted Rapist Brock Turner started to RUN and one of the guys who found them…

Not only that, but one of them was apparently appalled enough by what they saw to be sobbing when they gave their statements. Totally sounds like a misunderstanding, right? Political correctness run amok?

Oh, his family was respectable? Oh, you can think of five better contenders for Most Likely to Rape in your class yearbook? I just... Do you hear yourself?

“[...] rape on campus isn’t always because people are rapists.”

Cool Girls have that special~~ brand of internalized misogyny though! “I’m not like those feminazis who punish male sexuality—I’m a Cool Girl!”

Both? Cool Girls got all the internalized misogyny.

And they’ll get married, after he’s completed his probaion, and live in the nice home in a neighborhood that allows REGISTERED convicted sex offenders... and he’ll work his low paying job because he’s a REGISTERED convicted sex offender who is a nice guy so he makes sure his registration stays current, while she works…

Well, they're Swedish. They're probably less manly or something.

I am not blaming her directly for this, because that isn’t right I would be pilloried but she really was promiscuous, and Brock should be allowed to teach that course on female promiscuity and drinking and how it leads to all sorts of bad things for the men involved.

Best username and picture ever.

So is she trying to be a Cool Girl (TM) or is it just run of the mill internalized misogyny/rape culture?

I think his “childhood friend” has maybe had the hots for him forever and he totally ignored her. So her letter is a.) her getting out her anger that another girl—an UNCONSCIOUS girl—managed to get what she herself had always wanted, so of COURSE it’s that girl’s fault; and b.) I think she’s hoping he’ll see her as…

The people around him sound like the affluenza kid’s parents. The way this girl talks is like the old timely rape laws that required a victim to demonstrate that she resisted (so an inebriated victim was never considered a real victim.)

I’m a man who has been blackout drunk many times. Even with serious “clouded judgement” moments there was never a time where I thought “I should have sex with this unconscious girl”. You either have morals or you don’t. He doesn’t.