"I am filled with furious anger"

"I am filled with furious anger."  It is not the best sentence.

One of the reasons I follow (college) sports and Michigan sports is it allows me to see more.

There was the kicked-out defensive end who was removed from the team after the fracas in a motel.  It was a weekend away at the waterpark resort (i.e., a pool) in Ohio.  The player's long-time girlfriend had bruises and, among other things, a nightstand and lamp were knocked-over.  This player supposedly came from a tough background and this was not his first incident.

Recently there was the Mississippi State recruit arrested--he was not the only one in the crowd accused--for repeatedly kicking and hitting a woman already on the ground.  The recruit is a huge, fit athlete and he was recently, still, admitted as a scholarship student with a slap on the wrist (a one-game suspension).  The beating took place in front of dozens of people at the housing complex where they all live.

If you watch it every day it happens every day.  Every hear of Tami Huntsman, or her brother?  There is a mass murder in the U.S. about every week.

It is harder to follow, and I don't understand all the news, but there's a big world too:  Chinese/North Korean dissident prisons; genocidal refugee camps; nail-bomb terrorists on a regular basis.  Still, no one can control gang rapes in India.  Israel and the Palestinian state will never get along.

How would you like to live in a tent, or in a shack made from corrugated cardboard, in the mud or dust or dirt, and have rape, murder, or theft happen every day?

“You took away my worth, my privacy, my energy, my time, my intimacy, my confidence, my own voice, until today.”

Most of us could say that for one reason or another.

Congratulations, good for you for speaking out, albeit anonymously, and trying to work through the incident.  Hopefully, probably, in time, you will heal.  Sans the details--fraternity etc.--of course it is wrong.  But most people probably are not as smart and articulate.  Most people can't start a recall or write a 12-page letter that will get the vice president's attention.

Maybe it is something the vice president can identify with, but I cannot.  "How did I get dirt in my vagina?"

Ever hear of Nicole Lovell or David Eisenhauer?

Rape--not precisely what happened here--is a serious crime and he is going to jail and the justice system is not perfect.  Prisons are expensive and overcrowded; serve half your time is the way they operate in this case.  Humans and especially large, public institutions are not perfect either.  The problem is gaining friction, the Department of Education has taken major steps, local police (e.g., Knoxville, TN) are more aware of their "booster" actions, and the NCAA (e.g., Penn State) has teeth too. Just Google "Baylor rape scandal" or ask Ken Starr if he is aware.  The campus problems, and the influence and influences on young adults are getting lots and lots of attention these days.

Stanford, get over yourself.  I am not filled with furious anger.

(LINK; Very cool, the citizen's arrest.  I am not outraged either, nor do I think anyone is saying that it is OK (professor).  "Anything but light." Brian Banks likes fruit juice.  People are getting good at it:  we don't rationalize rape; band banned.)