Brockdaddy was Wrong
Twenty Minutes is a Long Time When You’re Being Violated
Your father thought that it would support your case to describe the rape as “twenty minutes of action”.
Your father was wrong.
Your lawyer (remember, acting as YOUR agent) attempted to malign the character and reputation of the young woman you raped.
Your lawyer was wrong.
One of your friends pleaded with the judge for leniency by continuing to malign the reputation of the woman you raped. She also used the I-was-Johnny-Depp’s-girlfriend-for-fourteen-years-and-he-never-raised-a-hand-to-me line of defence. The future is not neccessarily like the past: ask any christmas goose.
Your friend was wrong.
Your friends and family sent pleas for a mitigating sentence by letter to the judge. Despite all the evidence to the contrary, they still asserted that you were incapable of doing what you so clearly did.
Your friends and family were wrong.
steve wright writes: “ Dan Turner failed his son long before he pleaded with the judge for special treatment.” Your father did not expect this judgement to be a watershed of the rape culture. Oh, and by the way, Brockdaddy, your son has to register as a sex offender because he IS a sex offender.
Your father was wrong.
Your father attempted, on your behalf, to raise money for your defence on Facebook.
Your father was wrong.
Your father passed his view of the world on to you: a terribly, terribly flawed world view.
Your father was wrong.
Your father is a poor judge of what is socially acceptable behavior and what isn’t.
Your father is wrong.
You have a huge burden on your shoulders, a burden that your father, in his sincere effort to help you, only made much, much heavier.
Your father was wrong.
The intelligence and eloquence of the young woman you raped couldn’t save her from being assaulted.
This young woman’s story has awoken outrage worldwide, it has touched my heart, it has moved women who’ve had similar experiences to speak up.
She has won sympathy for her predicament and has given the world a shocking insight into the type of father that Dan A. Turner is.
The New York Times writes: “In Stanford Rape Case, Brock Turner Blamed Drinking and Promiscuity”.
The New York Times could have written: “Convicted Stanford Rapist Evades Responsibility by Blaming Others”. The New York Times could have asked “Where is personal responsibility here?” The New York Times could have retained the format that they used to headline another similar crime: “Rapist, 17, given 15-year sentence”
The New York Times could have refrained entirely from being the mouthpiece of a convicted rapist.
The New York Times was wrong.
Stanford University insists that it did everything in its power to ensure justice was done. That’s right, these powerful men and women of the faculty BANNED the convicted rapist from Stanford campus. What a terrible punishment!
I am kinda going with the Onion’s perspective:
You chose to put your faith in a hotshot lawyer instead of containing this terrible situation by admitting your guilt and settling at an early stage in the proceedings.
You were wrong.
You decided to take this to trial. You, Brock, not your father or your lawyer. You.
You were wrong.
You tried to make it all about the party culture. You followed in the infamous “Modest Witness” footsteps of Prussian Blue and Jeremy Stoppelman (see his vacuous response to Talia Jane here),
It was rape, Brock. There was earth in her vagina and pine needles in her hair.
You were wrong.
Some people are asserting that it wasn’t rape at all. @HeatherNann is putting them right on that:
“Some people” are wrong.
Persky gave a very different sentence to a latino found guilty of a similar crime even though the defendant gave a full and complete apology, unlike Brock.
Do the right thing, Brock. Do what you could have done from the very beginning, admit your guilt and start over.
All the people who advised you to deny, malign and defend…
They were wrong.
Now you are a man.
You stand alone.
This is your decision and yours alone.
You can still turn this around.
Do the right thing with regard to this woman who has suffered so unneccessarily at your hands.
Your hands Brock.
YOU did this.
Here’s another article I wrote on this topic:
This article critiques the free pass that Brock received from the press:
Vice-president Joe Biden writes to the young woman:
Here’s what other people on Medium are saying about this topic:
Ellie Guzman blows him out of the water:
Chris Messinger saw Brock downtown:
Chad Connington provided the link to this video from The Onion :
Stephen H Stein echoes my sentiments:
Short, sweet and to the point, here’s steve wright:
The californian student’s eloquence moves Liz Taylor to speak up after 20 years of silence:
Kathy Benjamin rewrites Dan A. Turner’s letter to Aaron Persky:
The Second City does the math:
Lyndsey D'Arcangelo believes it to be a reflection of the times we live in:
Vanessa Rush Southern, a Mumbai resident, has this to say:
Laura Munoz focuses on casual sexism:
Leslie Rasmussen claimed she “knew” that Brock wasn’t the type of guy to do something like this. But he WAS, Leslie.
You were wrong.
atypedvoice responds to Leslie Rasmussen:
Dan Hon runs through Leslie Rasmussen’s checklist to see if you’ve been raped (highlight: no kidnapping, no rape):
Delusional thinking is contagious. now Lesley’s band is paying the price for her spouting of delusional nonsense to Aaron Persky. Ain’t nobody got time for that.
The New York Times continues to give Brock and Rasmussen a free pass.
Does The New York Times expect me to sympathize with the clearly delusional Leslie Rasmussen? The truth would be better reflected by a very different headline: “Drummer defends convicted rapist…”.
Leslie, your foolishness has consequences. Financial consequences for you. By the way, there is a special place in hell for women who fail other women in the way that you have failed womanhood. Or are you of the same freedom-from-consequences mindset as Brock?
Now what? I do not subscribe to the fatalism that @alex describes here:
Kim Saumell describes the effect of the rape culture:
laura.louise calls for action (no, not that kind of action, Brockdaddy):
Kelly Mogilefsky: Out children have their own destiny. Help them to toughen up:
Nicole Castillo: Nice guys are rapists too:
Taylor Machnick tells it like it is. This is far and away the most succinct article I’ve read about this topic. If you read only one of the articles referenced here, read this one. THIS is why Brock Turner deserves to go to prison for a long, long time:
(((esperanza))) What men want matters more than women’s humanity, sharing her own experience:
Kelsey Zimmerman: Stop blaming the booze. Alcoholism 101: Alcohol does not cause problems; it intensifies problems already there.
Seja expresses sympathy for the female student:
Gena Vazquez: Call to action. This is rape culture:
Katie Feifer gives us further highlights of brockdaddy’s denial and rape culture:
Gary Inn and the special extended version. Stop hurting Brock’s feelings:
Sean Curry mistakenly believes: “It could never happen to me”. Have you heard of Tim Barrus?
ruby.verma: Brock got away with murder.
The free pass that newspapers like The New York Times as late as yesterday gave him (see above) has been revoked. But only because the tide of public opinion turned against him:
Andrea Morisette Grazzini: A down-to-earth real-life overview. Now what?
Meng Ping Hsu: A beautiful piece on the nature of time:
Sara Hess: This article contains an interesting list.
Finally, a prominent American Politician bewailed immigrants from a neighbouring country calling them rapists.
This is clearly a case of mistaken identity. Brock and men like him are the rapists.
Wow, you made it to the end of this article. I have never written anything like this before but this case woke me up.
I never wrote anything like this either (until now):
May he rest in peace.
Here’s a cycling photo essay:
