After reading the Victimized On Plain Sites study and Stanford rape article, I became frustrated with the narrative that constantly plays out in cases where women are sexually abused. As a daughter of an attorney, I am familiar with the court system and am a supporter of how it works. However, in cases like the Stanford incident I do not understand how a judge whose sole job is to uphold the law could settle on such a verdict. As a woman, I am at a particularly high-risk everyday of enduring such violence. It is for that reason that I find it victimizing to know that I could have a judge who could sentence someone for his, or her complete violation of another human being for such a short sentence. Beyond court orders, I find it completely
