So the Stanford rape survivor who chose to remain anonymous begins her letter addressing her attacker. The young woman's statement describes her suffering in vivid detail as she recounts her experience of the night between arriving at a party and being admitted to hospital several hours later. January 2015 Brock Turner was convicted of three counts of felony sexual assault. In an alley behind a dumpster he was found by two cyclists sexually assaulting the young woman. Although Turner was convicted, Judge Aaron Persky sentenced him to just six months in Santa Clara County Jail stating that “prison would have a serious impact on Turner” (O'Connor 2016). This is a great example of rape culture in America. Rape culture is society's way of blaming victims of sexual violence, even verbal violence, and normalizing male sexual violence. When news first covered the case, he was referred to not as a rapist, but as a student athlete and instead of showing his mugshot, his student photo was circulated as well as his athletic accomplishments. Depicting Turner this way trivializes his crimes and sends a message that as a man your violence against women will be tolerated and even ignored. Every day women are subjected to cat calls, groping or worse only to then be interrogated accusatorily about their appearance and actions. Men are generally never approached