Dude really doesn’t seem to get it, now does he?
October 28, 2009Alcohol doesn’t rape women – rapists do – Telegraph Blogs
I’m a bit concerned about what academics at Kent University have to say about the “myth” of date-rape drugs such as Rohypnol and GHB. Okay, it’s entirely valid to demonstrate that rape victims are more likely to have been incapacitated by alcohol than by drugs.
But rape is caused by rapists – not by women who are drunk or drugged,or by other risk-factors mentioned by the researchers such as walking alone at night.
The study that he is referring to is one that was reported that GHB has become the new ‘slipped me a mickey’ excuse with about as much validity.
Basically, what the study was saying was that these women hadn’t been slipped anything intentional, that they had plugged themselves with too much alcohol. But the author seems to ignore the possibility that the women maybe had morning regrets, or that they were confronted with an angry parent or boyfriend and needed to explain their actions away.
Look, I agree that some rapists would ply their subjects with alcohol or wait for a drunk victim to happen by. Just like I would admit that some criminals would wait on streets for a drunk (male) mark to roll for some easy cash. But that is a far cry from a woman going home, consensually albeit not in the best mindset, with a guy and then regretting what happened the morning afterwards. Do all women do this? Hardly. But those that do and refuse to accept the responsibility of their actions can bring down a lot of lives with the cry of rape.
