World pays tribute to the wrong people: Rapists are not the victims

 The Steubenville rapists have been sentenced to one year in prison and face time in juvenile jail until they turn 21. 

Yet, it seems some people are confused about whether to sympathize with rapists or rape victims.


Specifically, CNN claims the boys were "good students" and "had such promising futures. Here's a newsflash for CNN: They may have been "good students," but they were rapists nonetheless. Your future can't be too bright when you are going to rape someone somewhere down the road. 

Anchor Poppy Harlow expressed that it is "Incredibly difficult, even for an outsider like me, to watch what happened as these two young men that had such promising futures." 
Because, you know, all convicted sex offenders are required to register with the national sex offender public registry. So, when said rapist moves to a community, the people who live there can look up their names in the registry for their own safety. 

Also, if I were an employer, I wouldn't want to hire a sex offender. That would, like, make the work environment all hostile and stuff. 

These "boys" should have been tried as "men" because they are mature enough to know that the girl did not consent to the hell they subjected her to. They were getting ready to go to college and were of normal enough intelligence to realize that what they were doing was wrong. We should be sympathizing with the girl who was too drunk to consent to sexual intercourse. Yet, they were tried as juveniles and are sentenced to only a year in prison. To me, this is not a severe enough sentence. 

When the young men were sentenced, Ma'lik broke down in the arms of his attorney and cried, "My life is over. No one is going to want me now." You should have thought of that before you raped an unconscious girl.

Yeah, too bad they fucked everything up for themselves, but let this be their first adult lesson: You need to be held accountable for your actions, not just your football achievements.