This Is What Male Privilege Looks Like

To wit: Brock Turner, a freshman at Stanford, sexually assaulted an unconscious woman after a frat party. Despite his completely unbelievable denials, he was tried and convicted of this heinous and disgusting act. The judge, Aaron Peskey, took pity on the poor rapist, and sentenced him to only six months in prison for his gross violation of a completely defenseless human being. Peskey's reasoning, he explained, was that "a prison sentence would have a severe impact on him."

No, really. He actually wrote that. A prison sentence would have a severe impact on him.

I wonder what Judge Peskey believes the impact of this rapist's actions were on the victim. This is, in its purest form, what male privilege is right now in America. Brock Turner is a sexual predator. He is a rapist. He is a horrible, despicable human being, someone who has demonstrated to the entire world that he lacks the basic moral structure required to be a functioning member of modern society. He took advantage of a defenseless woman who was unconscious, pulled her dress up over her head, pulled her panties off of her, and repeatedly jammed his fingers inside of her before being chased off by two students who happened to be walking by.

But a prison sentence would have a severe impact on him.

Dan A. Turner, the father of the convicted rapist, wrote a nauseating letter to Judge Peskey, pleading for leniency. In this trite and self-serving missive, this candidate for father of the year referred to his son raping this unconscious woman as "twenty minutes of action." Stop and read that again. His son, the rapist Brock Turner, penetrated the vagina of a woman who was passed-out and unresponsive. His son, the rapist Brock Turner, repeatedly slammed his fingers into this woman's vagina. His son, the rapist Brock Turner, only stopped his gruesome assault of his unconscious victim when he was chased away by two passers-by who stumbled upon the vicious assault.

But a prison sentence would have a severe impact on him.

Dan A. Turner, the father of the convicted rapist, wrote in his sickening letter to Judge Peskey that his poor son, the rapist Brock Turner, had never been violent towards anyone, not even on the night that he sexually assaulted the unconscious woman behind a dumpster in a deserted alley after a frat party. Mr. Turner, the father of the convicted rapist, complained that his poor son, the rapist Brock Turner, doesn't even enjoy eating steak anymore, and that he only eats to live.

Poor, poor Brock Turner. How much can one rapist possibly suffer for his crimes? The man can't even enjoy a steak anymore. He certainly doesn't merit prison. Remember, a prison sentence would have a severe impact on him.

The simple fact is that if men were the primary victims of rape and sexual assault they would be capital crimes. But because men are the primary perpetrators of rape and sexual assault and women are the victims of men's depredations, we get tortured reasoning from male judges who sympathize with the perpetrators of these terrible, dehumanizing crimes. Never forget that a prison sentence would have a severe impact on him.