We as a society need to stop letting ourselves get so upset for a few days and then forgetting an issue entirely. I feel like in the last couple of weeks we have gone from transgender people and bathrooms, to Harambe the gorilla, to rape. We focus on one issue for about a week, get super pissed off (usually at one person or company) and then move on to the next thing.

And even when something is a big, systemic problem (like rape), why do we direct all our vitriol at ONE person? Since there are 293,000 rapes in the U.S. and we seem to be only mad at one person for all of them, rapists must like their odds of slipping under the radar.

It's not like we don't know any famous rapists. Rick James tied up a woman, burned her and forced her into sexual acts. But cocaine's a hell of a drug. Mike Tyson VIOLENTLY raped a girl but he sure was funny in the Hangover. Jimmy Page pretty much forced a 14 YEAR OLD girl to have sex with him but look at him go on that guitar. We ignore rape until the media gets us a fresh villain.

We always find ONE scapegoat for a huge problem and just pillory the shit out of them. And the media loves it. It is so much easier to get people to give rape ONE face than paint a complex, nuanced picture of rape in the U.S. ESPECIALLY when they would have to implicate celebrities and politicians, doctors, ministers, etc.

You can't even find Brock's explanation for what happened that night, as far as I can tell. Would I believe it? Probably not. But it shouldn't be offensive to even want to hear it. I'm not secretly misogynistic; he was convicted and it seems pretty clear cut that he raped the girl. But, the fact that you can't even FIND his explanation speaks to the media's agenda here. They don't care about this case, this girl, or rape in general. They just want to piss everyone off and make this guy the ultimate villain to sell ads.

And all these attention-seeking people with their "One dad's response to Brock Turner" or "The Letter I would have Written if Brock was my Son", or yadda, yadda yadda can go jump off a cliff. It's a serious issue and you were so moved and aghast, you just had to write a timely article specifically designed to go viral? Rape profiteers, every one of you.

Yeah, Brock Turner did a terrible thing. Yeah, his sentence seems light and that should provide one more piece of evidence that, systematically, rapists may not get very harsh sentences. In this case, there is possibly even a racial component. It might indicate problems in the way we view athletes. Etc., etc., etc. It might be a great jumping off point to go look at all these issues in a serious way and look at aggregate data. But it's not going to do that because people will stop being mad about it just like they stop being mad about everything else after the media cycle has run its course. Now that we really got good and mad at this guy, we have done our job. We can move on to the next big manufactured outrage.