Comments on: Daddy Turner Overdrive

By: stella

stella — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 18:54:59 +0000

posting everywhere, bc i am so ANGRY that the father’s letter refers to the RAPE as an “event,” “situation” and “actions”

By: S. McC

S. McC — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 18:36:43 +0000

First and foremost, it is BROCK TURNER who needs to apologize, not his father. No apology issued by his father, who did not commit the act, could substitute. I am not sure you can truly apologize for the actions of others. You can apologize for actions you took that might have contributed. Brock senior does not even do that, rather a bit of the reverese. Maybe Brock Turner’s lawyer told him not to admit anything before he was convicted. But afterwards? It could only lighten a sentence not increase it. Brock Turner still seems to be in complete denial about the event even occurring.

I don’t doubt for an instant that Brock Turner genuinely wishes that night had not happened. It is even possible he would never have committed such an atrocity later either. But the evidence that he did so this time was entirely persuasive. To date he does not seem to have admitted a thing.

According to his father, Brock Turner sounds as though he is in serious need of therapy. A therapist might even have him make an actual proper apology. Frankly, the way his father describes him, he sounds like a suicide risk. Perhaps his father would be better served worrying about that, than trying to justify his son’s entirely unjustifiable actions.

And to diminish his son’s crime merely to “20 minutes of action”? Unspeakable.

By: tanita

tanita — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 17:52:16 +0000

You know how we say “I can’t” about any number of things that we have to deal with??? SERIOUSLY, I CAN’T with this guy, and this letter, and it’s been bringing me to a shriek-y place all weekend, and I just — wow. I just have to sign petitions and file complaints and hope fruitlessly that AT SOME POINT, SOMETHING is going to make a difference, and batter down the fear that nothing will…

By: Mark Wilson

Mark Wilson — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 17:24:10 +0000

From the victim’s impact statement:
“Campus Sexual Assault. There’s your first powerpoint slide. Rest assured, if you fail to fix the topic of your talk, I will follow you to every school you go to and give a follow up presentation.
Lastly you said, I want to show people that one night of drinking can ruin a life.
A life, one life, yours, you forgot about mine. Let me rephrase for you, I want to show people that one night of drinking can ruin two lives. You and me. You are the cause, I am the effect. You have dragged me through this hell with you, dipped me back into that night again and again. You knocked down both our towers, I collapsed at the same time you did.”

By: Condorito

Condorito — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 17:22:48 +0000

One of the things I do for a living is castrate horses, usually indicated because their behavior is unacceptable. I’m almost never this vituperative, but I’d sign up for the job of castrating Brock (I promise I would anesthetize him first), but I can’t promise I wouldn’t take the testicles and shove them into Turner Senior’s mouth, and sew his lips shut.

(I probably shouldn’t have written any of that, but it was cathartic, and of course I wouldn’t actually do any of it)