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Our Douche of the Week posts have often concerned rape in the past, and unfortunately, this week is no different. I wish there were a plethora of other subjects more prevalent than this one, but it's a conversation we keep coming back to because rape culture in our society is such a driving force that people consistently and fully promote an acceptable attitude of violence towards women and victim-blaming ultimately landing them a spot here as a Top of the Line Douchecanoes.

This week, it's 20 year old Brandon Vandenburg, a former football player at Vanderbilt college in Tennessee who was kicked off the football team last year after he and some of his fellow teammates were charged with raping an unconscious female student. This week, Vandenburg submitted a 128 page document to the court to have his case dismissed on the grounds that the female student in question had a questionable history filled with promiscuity and drinking.

In the early morning hours of June 23, 4 young football players took turns having sexual intercourse with the victim while she was passed out in Vandenburg's room. The 4 were subsequently charged with 5 counts of aggravated rape and 2 counts of sexual battery.

Mr. Vandenburg here, however, feels that no crime took place simply because the victim obviously liked to have sex and drink. It doesn't matter that the victim had no chance to say yes to being plowed by 4 men who lined up to have unprotected sex with her. She absolutely might have done so. But, the big thing here is that SHE WASN'T GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO SAY YES OR NO. She was not given a choice to be in control of her own body because these 4 assclowns saw fit to take what they wanted. She liked football players anyway, right? She liked to drink and fuck, right? So there's no way she would have said no. Might as well fuck her and video and take pictures of it for their own benefit.

This is the entitlement aspect of rape culture.

Men feel that since a woman has had sex, she will have sex with any man who ever wants to have sex with her, and even if she is completely unable to say yes, it's fine because she would have said yes anyway.

It concerns me that this douchebag's attorneys would even file this document. Rape shield laws are in place to protect victims from having to answer any questions whatsoever about their sexual history. Because *NEWSFLASH* a woman who has had sex isn't going to have sex with every dick we can find. We're not roaming the streets after becoming sexually active unable to control ourselves and jumping on the drunken homeless man sleeping in the dumpster behind 7/11. We're not bending over on the bus and letting the guy with horrible B.O. and 2 teeth stick us from behind. Rape shield laws are in place BECAUSE SAYING YES ONCE DOES NOT MEAN GIVE MEN THE BLANKET AUTHORITY TO GIVE "IT" TO US AT ANY TIME THEY CHOOSE. We're not asking for it by saying yes. We're not incapable of saying no just because we've said yes. This girl's supposed "promiscuity" does not at all diminish the fact that she passed out in a dorm room and was then violated by 4 different "men" who thought it would be great to treat her like a human blow-up doll.

Who the fuck can possibly defend their own actions when they're actions clearly show that each one of them took turns having sex with an unconscious girl? A douche, that's who.

I had a debate not long ago with someone who said that we need to keep fighting to keep girls from drinking too much and making themselves vulnerable to these kinds of attacks, but the fact of the matter is that whether she had too much to drink or not doesn't diminish the fact that cultural attitudes ensured that these men would take advantage of the opportunity. Every woman in this country could absolutely refuse to drink for the rest of their lives and we'd still be raped. We'd still be victims. Had she not been drunk, the chances that she would have been overpowered and raped by 4 guys who thought she owed it to them (obviously) to fuck them all are pretty fucking high. The drink just made their job easier....it didn't suddenly turn them into rapists. The mentality was already there.

What needs to happen is for this asshole to be laughed out of court with this idiotic motion to dismiss, and each one of them needs to spend a lengthy time in prison. The statistics show that 97% of rapists never spend any time in jail and that just speaks to the cultural influence at work. That needs to change and idiots like this need to be the example. When the mentality that men are entitled to give women what they're asking for is changed with imposed prison sentences, when rapists aren't given carte blanche to repeatedly force themselves on women to the complete acceptance of the system and society, we'll see less of this kind of crime. --jenniy

If you don't recognize the goofy face above, you should start getting familiar with it because something tells me this man is the next Michael Vick.  And please...don't start in on how Michael Vick paid his debt to society because I don't want to hear it.  He's a douche too.

The man pictured above is Florida State University and Heisman Trophy winner Jameis Winston, a man with lots of potential to be a big star and, as he showed this week and in the not-so-distant past, a huge douche.

On Tuesday of this past week, the Douche was caught shoplifting $32.72 worth of crab leg and crawfish from a Publix store.  There is so much douche here I feel like I'm drowning in it.

In December of 2012, Winston was accused a rape by another FSU student.  A proper investigation has never been made into the matter, though the case was closed two months after due to "lack of cooperation" by the accuser.  In July of 2013, he was cited for stealing soda from a Burger King, and now these latest charges.  FSU appears to have done a pretty decent and utterly shameful job of keeping him out of trouble for the rape allegations only to have to find a mediocre punishment for him as a result of his shoplifting.

FSU has suspended their star Quarterback from the BASEBALL TEAM.  Yup.  The baseball team.

So many thoughts here.  I'm not even going to acknowledge the rape case further because I don't have to...anyone who reads the information can see it: Winston is a douche.  His friends are douches.  FSU is full of douches and the Tampa Police Department is full of douches.  But the thing is...Winston has walked away from serious allegations only to go on and exhibit this kind of juvenile behavior and blame it on "youthful ignorance".

Mr. Winston... I can only assumed you are at FSU because they're paying for your education in exchange for your talent on the field.  FSU is clearly not doing you any favors by paying for your education because clearly you're not getting any smarter.  Not only did you walk away from some serious allegations and possibly an activity that ruined a young woman's chance at making something of herself at college, not to mention ruining her life, but you then flaunt your invincibility by doing something so juvenile as shoplifting.  Do you know who shoplifts?  Teenage girls.  You've been given an opportunity of a lifetime...and you choose to be a douche and a crappy human being.  You're scum and you're trash.  And I say that as someone who believes you are a rapist and a thief.

While stealing some crab legs might not be the same as ruining a life, it is just further proof to me that you are not worth the investment being put into you by FSU.  You deserve nothing.  You were given an amazing opportunity, and instead you choose to be a creep and a rapist who gets off on acting like a punk kid, and then shrugs his shoulders and gives a real bitch-ass excuse for being a steaming pile of excrement.

Read for Yourself:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2014/04/30/analysis-florida-state-fsu-quarterback-jameis-winston-crab-legs-shoplifting-citation/8526501/
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2014/04/16/jameis_winston_rape_investigation_the_new_york_times_reveals_just_how_badly.html

-- Hot Ash