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This article and intro contain graphic descriptions of rape and rape culture. Discretion is advised. 
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 *We live in a rape culture that privileges rapists over the people they rape.

The criminal justice system is more worried about the well-being of rapists than the well-being of the people they rape.

Society is obsessed with blaming the victims/survivors of rape for rape.

Rapists rarely think of themselves as rapists. They think coercion and rape are natural and normal parts of courtship, relationship, and power.

The entire world dances to the beat of R. Kelly’s music, sits in front of the TV to chuckle with Bill Cosby, runs to the theaters to see the latest Woody Allen and Roman Polanski films, comes home to catch the latest entertainment from Sir Jimmy Savile, and then goes to pray for forgiveness in the child rape factories (a.k.a. “churches”) of various religions.

If the universe is at all a place of balance, gruesome suffering will surely be our portion.

“One night in January 2015, two Stanford University graduate students biking across campus spotted a freshman thrusting his body on top of an unconscious, half-naked woman behind a dumpster.

This March, a California jury found the former student, 20-year-old Brock Allen Turner, guilty of three counts of sexual assault. Turner faced a maximum of 14 years in state prison. On Thursday, he was sentenced to six months in county jail and probation. The judge said he feared a longer sentence would have a ‘severe impact’ on Turner, a champion swimmer who once aspired to compete in the Olympics — a point repeatedly brought up during the trial.”

Please read the survivor’s response: https://www.buzzfeed.com/katiejmbaker/heres-the-powerful-letter-the-stanford-victim-read-to-her-ra?utm_term=.ccyqmNDa4A#.ru87Xm4qWZ