Brock Turner Is Not An Exception — He's A Sex Offender
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Brock Turner Is Not An Exception — He's A Sex Offender

Since mainstream media can't seem to connect him to anything other than Stanford swimming.

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Brock Turner Is Not An Exception — He's A Sex Offender
The Telegraph

Just to recap to those of you who may have forgotten this "man," if you can call him that, here is the story of Brock Turner.

Brock Turner went to a party on January 17th, 2015.

Brock Turner made several attempts with several girls at said party. They described him as touchy, creepy and aggressive.

Brock Turner left this party with a woman so intoxicated that she quickly became unresponsive, unconscious, and unable—as most above the age of six would recognize—to consent.

Brock Turner, being the stand up guy he is, took this woman to a quiet, dark and secluded area behind a dumpster.

Brock Turner proceeded to undress this woman and help himself to her unmoving body. A body that he claims, even though he was on top of it, he didn't know was unresponsive.

Lucky for Brock, two fellow students riding by on their bikes did notice the fact that this woman wasn't moving, or responding, or hell—barely breathing!

Brock wasn't very appreciative of these students noticing this little detail for him because after they yanked him off of her, he took off running.

Lucky for us Brock must not be a very fast runner because these same students tackled him and held him there until authorities arrived.

Brock Turner was convicted of three felonies: assault with intent to rape an intoxicated person, sexually penetrating an intoxicated person with a foreign object and sexually penetrating an unconscious woman with a foreign object.

Brock Turner was unanimously convicted of these charges by the twelve jurors on his case.

On June 2, 2016 Brock Turner was sentenced to 6 months in county jail.

You read that right, a unanimously convicted, sexual assailant sentenced to just six months.

On September 2, 2016 Brock Turner was released on account of "good behavior."

Three measly months later.

Where was that "good behavior" the night you sexually assaulted an unconscious woman, Brock?

Where was that "good behavior" that night you fled, leaving an unresponsive woman curled in the fetal position, underwear six inches away from her partially bare body where you left them?

Where was that "good behavior" when you shoved your hands, along with the pine needles and debris from the ground, into her body?

Most importantly, where in the hell was that "good behavior" when you felt entitled to another person's body without their consent?

An act that you have yet to show any remorse for, might I add.

For those of you still with me, I hope you've noticed something a little different about my article than all of the others I've seen the last few days.

Not once did I mention Brock was a Stanford student.

Not once did I refer to him as the "Stanford Swimmer" or boast about his swim times.

Not once did I try to make this any less about the heinous acts he committed and more about how sad it is that this will have negative impacts on his swimming career and young adult life.

Not once will I apologize for recognizing Brock Turner as the piece of shit that he is.

Not once will I ever apologize for not "getting over it" when the media fails again and again to represent "men" like Brock the way they should be.

As long as the media supplies us with headlines like these—

"Ex-Stanford swimmer leaves jail after serving half his term"

"Former Stanford swimmer Brock Turner released from jail"

"Anger as ex-Stanford swimmer freed after three months"

—I will not apologize for following up with corrections.

"Sex offender Brock Turner leaves jail after serving half his term"

"Sex offender Brock Turner released from jail"

"Anger as sex offender freed after three months"

The list goes on and on. There are so many words you could use to describe him, so many words you could use to describe his actions.

Stop referring to him as the Stanford Swimmer.

Stop telling me about Brock Turner's achievements in swimming.

Stop telling me about Brock Turner's dreams going down the drain.

Stop telling me that Brock Turner deserved to spend a mere three months in jail for what he did.

Stop telling me that Brock Turner is anything short of a sexually-assaulting, sad excuse for a man.

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