doesn’t drinking just erase the filter and bring out your true self? like, I get SUPER chatty, as do most of my friends. plus hugging.

Yep. The thing about having to clean up the sick stuck in my brain like a fishing hook. That piece of shit of a person. So disgusting. I just can’t even get my head around what sort of a person doubles down like that and shames someone. I can “get” that it’s all part of the power play, and no doubt he was projecting…

I also found it sooo disturbing that the next day he played it like he should be mad at her! Like, “you really embarrassed me, I had to take care of you and clean up your vomit and stuff.” Was this a ploy to keep her further away from the truth, or is that just how he operates: does something horrible, lies about it…

This case really haunted me, as in I dreamt about it, at one point started to think about it and had a full blown anxiety attack haunted, and I think it’s for a couple of main reasons beyond it just being a horrible assault.

Also, deserving mention:

Why did they join in? Because apes always imitate what their alpha ape does & obey his orders, out of fear for their own masculinity, and out of fear of ostracism from the pack. I have a feeling Jane Goodall would give us much better insight into the minds of college athletes than any anthropological studies have ever…

YOU, the victim, were treated as a “dumb slut”. HE, the rapist douchebag, got to brag to people. This is so infuriating and you are right, so very common. I’m very very sorry that happened to you.

YUP. The lawyer I talked to kept questioning me and trying to like, ‘prove’ I was wrong. He was irritated for sure.

This happened to me, too. The smarmy lawyer asked some question about consent (can’t remember it word for word but he basically implied that a drunk/passed out woman who was up for it earlier and not saying “no” during was definitely consenting). I told him with all the vitriol I could muster that a woman drunk enough…

Standford douche had actual living eyewitnesses to the crime while it was happening, though. TWO eyewitnesses. Two MALE eyewitnesses. It’s the next best thing to video.

I’m so sorry that happened to you.

Not only that, but a jury got it right twice for this guy. And another jury also got it right in the case of his co-defendants who had a separate trial. I am shocked.

This same thing happened to me before the days of video. My boyfriend “shared” me with his friends in a dorm room after I had passed out from drinking. I only had odd Rosemary’s baby type remembrances, and could very well have thought I had dreamt the whole thing until the next morning, when he actually bragged about…

Given how many people have been assaulted or raped, I’m amazed they could find a jury at all.

You can’t serve on a jury about rape if you’ve been raped? Can you not serve on a trial about burglary if you’ve been robbed?

So relieved that the jury foreman situation did not save this guy. A second chance to do the right thing and they took it. Good job, society.

“four hours to convict him of five counts of aggravated rape, two counts of aggravated sexual battery and unlawful photography.”

Nice to not read “... 15 of those years suspended”

Any lawyer types have an over/under on how much time he’ll actually serve?

Oh, he was drinking? Give him a pass then.