Recently the letter Brock Turner's victim wrote to him and read in court has surfaced and is being shared on multiple platforms. When this story first developed Brock controlled the narrative, because he was the only one who remembered the events that took place on that night in January. It took her letter coming out before the outrage at what he'd done really began. This control gave media outlets the ability to paint him as an all-American baby-faced boy who got too drunk and had made an error in judgement. This perpetuation of rape culture is committed by media outlets, so here are 7 things I am tired of hearing about Brock Allan Turner

1. His swim times

Really?!?!?!?! His swim times…. How could anyone in their right mind think it’s appropriate to post an athletic accolade in the same article mentioning him sexual assaulting a woman. His athletic ability doesn’t negate the necessity of him having to follow the rules. Athletes should be held to a higher standard, they represent not only their university but also their team. His fellow teammates should be upset because now their reputation is forever marred by his violent assault. When they claim their alma mater and boast of their swimming accolades, they will forever be met with questions about the rapist who swam in the lane net to him.

2. How this conviction dashed his Olympic dreams

This conviction didn't ruin his chances at becoming an olympian, him being a rapist ruined his chances of being an olympian. This sounds like the lamenting of a child who got caught. Brock Turner attempting rape and sodomizing Emily Doe is why he is now a convicted sex offender. If he had been a decent human being and helped her home, called her a cab, taen her to the hospital for possible alcohol poisoning this would have been a totally different narrative. But no, Brock Turner decided that he was going to try and get lucky with a girl too drunk to remember her own name, let alone give consent.

3. How severe of an impact a stricter sentence would have had on him

He. Is. A. Rapist. Was he concerned with the impact him sexually assaulting that young woman would have? Apparently not since he ran away from the people who came across him as he was thrusting into her lifeless body. Was he concerned with the fact that she was unresponsive and the impact that dragging her lifeless body through the woods would have? Apparently not since she was scraped and bruised and had pine needles in her hair . Let's take a moment and acknowledge that the oh so honorable Aaron Persky is also a Stanford athletics alum. I'm sure this has absolutely nothing to do with the slap on the wrist the former prosecutor gave Brok for his sexual assault.

4. His weakened appetite

Brock doesn't enjoy rib eye steaks anymore? BOOHOO!!! Im so sorry that the man who treated a woman like a piece of meat can no longer enjoy consuming mass amounts of food. Just a heads up Daddy Turner, Brock will probably have a bit of trouble adjusting to the food in the county correctional facility he will be serving his ridiculously minuscule sentence in. He's also probably going to get picked on, with that pretty little baby face all the news outlets keep showing (instead of his mugshot)

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5. His life is changed for "only 20 minutes of action"

Oh so if it only takes someone 20 minutes or less to commit a murder they should get a lesser sentence? I don't care if it was 20 seconds, if there wasn't mutual consent, that is sexual assault. This unbelievably heinous statement by Dan Turner exemplifies rape culture in the United States, and why the narrative surrounding sexual assault needs to be changed. Brock gets too drunk to be held responsible for his actions, but Emily Doe would've never gotten raped if she hadn't been too drunk? This ridiculous double standard and disgusting injustice should not even be given a platform, and instead, news outlets and the defense team built their story around it.

6. He was drunk and didn't know what was going on

Too drunk to realize the girl underneath him was unresponsive but not too drunk to run away when he was caught by two students biking past. Too drunk to realize she wasn't even awake to give consent, but not too drunk to recall that apparently she had been all over him at the party. Too drunk to realize that he should have helped her get home safe instead of getting on top of her and humping her after she'd taken a drunken tumble, but not too drunk to recall that she gave him a back rub which he took as her consenting, and showing her appreciation. I have been drunk once or twice in my life (sorry family, I love you all) and while I understand thinking peeing outside or in the wrong bathroom is a good idea rather than waiting, I can't recall a time in my life when I was drunk and thought humping a lifeless body was a good idea.

7. His side is more reliable because she was too drunk to remember

So he's so drunk he can't be held responsible, but not drunk enough that he can't recall the events of the night? In what world does that make sense? I cannot think of a single person who would hear that and go "Oh yeah that makes sense". Her being drunk does not all of a sudden make her body a free for all. Her being drunk means that them leaving the party should have been a perfect example of the blind leading the blind, a stumbling drunken mess, some puking, hopefully, an uber called, some texts that make absolutely no sense. Instead, it was a case of the hyena separating the weak antelope from the pack and attacking.

Brock Allan Turner is a rapist. He might be a son, an all-American, an athlete, and a former cub scout, but none of that matters. What matters is he is a rapist, he took advantage of a woman who could not give consent, fight him off, or walk away. He shouldn't be called the Stanford swimmer, he should be called the Stanford rapist, since she is called the Stanford rape victim. Brock Turner deserves to have the book thrown at him, he deserves to serve time in a cell thinking about what he did. His victim deserves an apology (from him and his awful father) and people need to recognize that rape is never the fault of the victim. I don't care what they were wearing (a cardigan in this case), how drunk they were, what kind of "signs" they were giving, if they were being a "tease", any of it. Brock Turner was wrong, and he should have been punished for his crime, and not for who he was before he committed this crime.