Why?

It’s another impossibly dreadful story of rape and bullying. Some of you might want to just skip the whole godawful thing.

In 2011, Rehtaeh Parsons attended a party where she consumed enough vodka to not remember most of the evening. She recalls throwing up out of a window. Four boys then raped her; one of the boys allegedly yelled, "take a picture, take a picture." According to Rehtaeh’s mother, "That picture began to circulate in her school and community three days later."

The picture prompted a torrent of online bullying as well as verbal abuse at her school. When Rehtaeh confessed the incident to her mother a few days later, they called emergency health services as well the police. After a year of investigations, the police told her it was a case of "he said, she said," without enough evidence to press charges. They told the family that though she was underage, the photographs were not a criminal issue.

I do not understand

• why she was raped,

• why the men took photos of the act,

• why they then distributed evidence of their criminal act,

• why she was bullied for being raped,

• why the men were not publicly shamed and ostracized,

• and why the police could not find grounds for arresting violent criminals.

I simply do not understand.

It might be an inability to comprehend the human race. I’m thinking of joining another species.