Tuesday 12 April 2016

Toby Turner rape allegations and the problem with the phrase 'rape culture'

Toby Turner AKA Tobuscus is currently being accused with rape and rape it makes people angry. Why wouldn't it, it's a disgusting vile thing. Here's the thing though, why are people assuming the YouTuber Toby Turner is guilty or innocent for that matter? Firstly April Skywalker one of the people accusing him of rape she wrote a post on Tumblr about Toby, it's about Toby Turner and her time with him. Okay, so.... You've been raped and abused and you decide the best thing to do is go to Tumblr for justice? You don't post something on social media for justice, you do it for vengeance, you want justice, you got to the police which ExeoInfinte pointed out with his two cents on the matter. April also shared a screenshot of her and Toby's conversation, I mean it has to be true right? But if you look online there's iPhonetextgenerators which don't take a second to find, holy fucking shit...can these message be forged, umm yeah, possibly.

Secondly, April discussed in her Tumblr post that she had lots of Emails between like hundreds and thousands with Toby, well why not screenshot those, evidence that would of been more viable for your case? It doesn't tell me anything or back up...it's so ambiguous and shitty. The screencaps came out to public eye when she was accused of lying,so there's that. 

Now the phrase 'rape culture is real' after something happens like this, that's annoying. As soon as someone like this say they are raped on social media, it annoys the crap out of me because instantaneously hate is thrown at this guy, abuse and his videos are now going to have dislikes, hate comments, he's going to get abused on Twitter. If we were a rape culture, wouldn't we say some things like "oh you probably asked for it" a rape culture would be inciting rape, not defending it we get angry and disgusted by the fact rape happens,  but unjustly people abuse people and use the phrase 'Guilty till proven innocent' with rape, cut that shit out. There's always the chance he is actually innocent. People should always take a step back and make their own opinion of the matter don't instantly believe either side, be smart about it. There's tons of people who are actually innocent from being accused of being a rapist, paedophile and the abuse could cause them to commit suicide. Again I'm not saying Toby is innocent or guilty or that these women are lying. I'm just looking at it from an outside perspective because until there is evidence it's only a screenshot which could be fake, a Tumblr post and videos from both parties.