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In reply to the discussion: After Months of Requests, Mugshots of Stanford Rapist Brock Turner Finally Emerge [View all]BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)45. Thank you, nice point
But not germane to the premise of the post.
"I want to puke at the people making this about race.
At the heart of it all, it's about what men can get away with doing to women. If the two men hadn't helped and WITNESSED, does anyone think SHE would have even been able to get the guy to court?
The central issue is women are routinely devalued, disbelieved, discarded. Collateral damage, no matter what their promising future and years of hard work might have looked like."
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After Months of Requests, Mugshots of Stanford Rapist Brock Turner Finally Emerge [View all]
SpankMe
Jun 2016
OP
Mug shots are public record. Why did Stanford have anything to say about it at all?
AtheistCrusader
Jun 2016
#9
Dad appears to have middle-management civilian job with the Air Force. I'm sure he does fine but
TacoD
Jun 2016
#44
It appears that his privilege is based on more on being a Stanford alum, an athlete and male
avaistheone1
Jun 2016
#3
In addition, a number of black football players at Baylor have gotten away with raping white coeds
Doctor_J
Jun 2016
#26
+ Wanna guess how quick it would have been after the arrest that his mug shot would have
Person 2713
Jun 2016
#6
Common for the area read below .. Multiple requests . The crime was 16 months ago they substituted
Person 2713
Jun 2016
#11
There wouldn't even be a booking photo if he wasn't caught in the act of raping her.
SunSeeker
Jun 2016
#7
SHE is brilliant, too. And BRAVER than most men could ever IMAGINE being.
BlancheSplanchnik
Jun 2016
#33
"She towered over the violence of the perpetrator AND the system, with the might of her words"
demmiblue
Jun 2016
#59
maybe SHE could learn from this???? are you ******* KIDDING? SHE could learn?? did you
niyad
Jun 2016
#20
Yeah, I've never heard of this before, aside from maybe some juvenile cases...
Blue_Tires
Jun 2016
#35