As I was scrolling through my Facebook page, I noticed an article called Judge Suggests Rape Victim to “keep her knees together.” As soon as I read the title, shivers were sent down my body from head to toe. I just thought in my head “there’s no way.”

http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/12/world/robin-camp-rap...

Judge Robin Camp is facing removal from his position as judge because of his comments on a rape case that he was the judge of. He had comments for both the rapist and victim which offended many people. The woman, 19 years old was raped over a bathroom sink at a house party. Camp said to the woman “Why didn’t she just skew her pelvic or push her bottom to the sink to avoid penetration? Keep your knees together. Young woman do love to have sex particularly when they're drunk. Some sex and pain goes together and that's not necessarily a bad thing.”

After he acquitted him, the judge told the perpetrator “I want you to tell your friends, your male friends, that they have to be more gentle with woman. They have to be far more patient. And they have to be very careful. To protect themselves, they have to be careful.”

I was in shock when reading about this and also disgusted. To me, everyone has their own opinion. But, some people need to keep their opinions to themselves. How could he say that to a rape victim? She did not want to have to skew her pelvic so she doesn’t get raped, she doesn’t want to get raped at all! He even gave the rapist advice and tried to help him so he wouldn’t get caught again. The judge is also being investigated in Canada by a judicial committee to see whether he will hopefully lose his job.

Rape culture is not only a major issue in America, it’s an issue that needs to be resolved all over the world. Even though we are fighting very hard to take away his job as a judge, who knows how many other judges there are saying things like Camp is. Rape culture needs to come to an end.