Today in class we went through and did our TED talks, so once again, there isn't really much to say as I have already reported on what everyone was reading and discussing.
As we went around, it was interesting to see the amount of variety in people's cases. Cases ranged from University athletic rape cases (like in Missoula), to caretakers raping disabled, to strangers on the street raping someone. All in all, it goes to show that the cases in Missoula are not the only type of rape cases, and that rape can truly happen to anybody, anywhere.
The rhetoric discussing rape is such an issue in America, and that is what I truly got out of these cases. It seemed like all of these cases had victim blaming, and most of them had little to no punishment for the offender. It is absolutely sickening that a crime this heinous is less punishable than something like robbery. A crime that ruins somebody's life, and leaves victims with things like PTSD is seen as minuscule in so many courtrooms around America.
All of these cases had one thing in common: people rape because they are rapists, not because the victim was asking for it, not because they thought it was okay, but because they are rapists. This epidemic plaguing America needs to be changed, and the justice system is the place to start.
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