Bryce
Should Get
Away
with It
By Mckayla A. Johnson
The new Netflix series
that is sweeping the nation is none other the show 13 reasons why. The show is about a teenager,
Hannah Baker, that kills herself and leave tapes with 13 reason why. Each
reason is a person and in the order that the tapes are set, the people get the
tapes. One of the last tapes is Bryce Walker. Hannah states that Bryce raped
her friend, Jessica, and then her. Clay Jenson, Hannah’s love interest in the
series, who is also on the tapes. Went to Bryce’s house to confront him on this;
and, while recording him, gets a confession from him. After this the tapes were
giving to the last person on the tapes, Mr. Porter, who was the school
psychologist who wouldn’t help her.
After their daughter’s death Hannah's parents
are suing the school for not see that she was bullied. They don’t know about
the tapes. Before Clay gave the tapes to the school he had his friend Tony
transfer them to a flash drive that he gave to the Bakers. In the last episode,
they show the 13 individuals being brought in for questioning by the
prosecution pending a trial. They don’t show the trial, so that means that now
that the show had been renewed for a second season, they may show the trial.
The show covers a variety
of topics like suicide and rape, this has caused a controversy in showing the
effects of such events on the people and those around them. This brings us to
the main topic of this article. Hoping that the show’s producers keep going with
this streak of controversy. When they keep going with the trial and when the
trial against Bryce starts, I want him to get away with raping Hannah and
Jessica.
Netflix
This will s how the
injustice in today’s judicial system and that today’s boys don’t know how to
respect woman. They are told to pick on girls to show their affection, they are
taught to view woman as sex objects, objects to possess. They are taught to
shoot for the stars no matter what’s in your way. This, is possibly the
mentality that men who rape woman have. But when they are on trial they feel
remorse only because their lives are on the line. In college, some men feel
like they own the world just because they have a promising future.
This was the mentality
Bryce Walker when he raped Hannah and Jessica. Even though Bryce isn’t in
college, the mentality is the same. Bryce Walker represents a very specific set
of men. Rich, white, handsome, promising future, and thinks he owns the world
just because he has money. These characteristics describe all too well, too
many men. Bryce Walker represents men like Brock Turner.
Brock Turner. Santa Clara Sheriff's Office
Brock Turner was a
19-year-old freshman at Stanford University when on January 18th
2015 was caught raping an unconscious woman behind a dumpster. He was tried, in
the trial the prosecution argued for 6 years, Brock was given 6 months and then
let out after serving only 3.
This sentencing was due
to the fact that Brock has a “promising future” according to his lawyer. Brock
was rich and his parents bought him a very good lawyer. Brock is just one of the
many examples of rich, white boys who get let off with the minimum sentence
because they have a “promising future.”
This a problem that needs
to be addressed and that’s why he needs to get away with the rapes. To show the
audience that it is very real and needs to stop. 13 Reasons Why shows rape,
bullying, depression, battle with mental illness, and suicide, they should add
this too.
Brock and Bryce are one
in the same, both white, both rich, both have the ‘I own the world’ attitude,
and both have raped girls. Brock got away with it, and now lives in a small
Ohio town where people picket outside his house and despise him. With Bryce, it
may be a similar story, but he won’t get jail time. He may get a slap on the
wrist and may have to move to another school district to pretend like the whole
Hannah Baker thing never happened. But those rapist urges may still be there
and he may rape again, but this time he will be caught and tried and convicted.
Then and only then will the rapes stop.
This is all what I hope
to happen in season 2. The injustice of
our judicial system is more than just something to be brushed off as it’s just
the way it is.
This is all to show
viewers what’s right underneath their noses. What’s really happening but going
unreported. Brock Turner was a horrible person and Bryce is no different. The
show will end with out-cry but that’s the point. It has to end someway why not
with a bang. That’s why Bryce should get away with it. To give light to
something that is not talked about often enough.
References: "13 Reasons Why (2017) S01e12
Episode Script | SS." Springfield! Springfield! Trans. N/a. N.p., n.d.
Web. 17 May 2017.
Hollyfield, Amy, and Matt Keller. "Brock
Turner Released from Jail in Santa Clara County." ABC7 San Francisco.
ABC7, 02 Sept. 2016. Web. 17 May 2017.
N/a. "Brock Turner Bio." SwimSwam.
N.p., n.d. Web. 17 May 2017.