Rape Is Criminal and Unacceptable

Obvious statement is obvious. And yet, it still apparently still needs to be made.

So, some rapists got in trouble for raping someone. Shocking.

Seems like some people focused on the horror of being a rapist, rather than the horror of being raped. Because those poor boys will be labeled sex offenders for life. All over one youthful, drunken mistake.

Let me help those people out with their feelings of sympathy and pity. Getting into your car and driving while drunk, then smacking your car upside an embankment is a drunken mistake.

Getting drunk and deciding to streak the football game is as drunken mistake.

Getting drunk, then getting a girl so drunk she passes out, taking off her clothes, inserting things into her vagina, urinating and ejaculating on her, and then taking video and pictures and distributing them on social networking sites IS NOT a youthful, drunken mistake.

It's a deliberate act of sexual violation and personal humiliation carried out by entitled, self serving, myopic, coddled dickheads. It's rape. With a side bonus of faux slut-shaming.

The boys had some charming texts that display their wit and compassion. Don't read if you're easily nauseated by human indecency.

Here's some people who said it a lot better than I could:

Genevieve Burgess

The punishment for getting too drunk should be a hangover, not sexual assault. Anyone who argues differently is a monster.

darmatugan

"When you're working to change women's behavior in order to prevent rape, you're really just saying 'make sure he rapes the other girl'."

NateMan

These rapists raped a girl. Raped. It's an ugly, ugly word, but it's the right one. She has to live with it the rest of her life. I'm okay with these two being forced to do that as well.

 Here's the juice:

• This is about human rights. Period.  

• It is wrong to focus on how woman can avoid being raped. The focus should be on educating and developing a cultural that eliminates rape from the sexual repertoire. To be reductive about it: Women shouldn't have to avoid rape, rather men should not be raping. 

• A person shouldn't have to say "No." No sexual activity should occur until someone explicitly says "Yes."