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College Women: Stop Getting Drunk

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FreedomOfTheTess · 16/10/2013 15:52

I'm afraid to say, this is the exact title of an article on Slate.

College Women: Stop Getting Drunk

Emily Yoffe basically says, in her article, that college women who get drunk become sitting ducks to these sexual predators. (While the article is focusing on the issue of young women in college (university), I take the view an attitude such as Yoffe's can be applied to all women).

She does say, "Lets be totally clear: Perpetrators are the ones responsible for committing their crimes, and they should be brought to justice. But we are failing to let women know that when they render themselves defenceless, terrible things can be done to them."

So what Yoffe is really trying to say there is...

I'm not a rape apologist, I do think rapists are bad, but if you stupid drunken girls didn't make it so easy for them do it, well you may not have been raped in the first place*.

  • Because of course, sober women don't get raped.

Oh yes, you're not rape apologist Yoffe, not at all. Angry

I'm off to find a brick wall to bang my head against.

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ApocalypseThen · 16/10/2013 17:20

Yep. The consequence from being drunk that women ought to bear in mind is a hangover.

But once again, women are being encouraged to change our behaviour because some men prefer not to regulate theirs.

FreakinRexManningDay · 16/10/2013 16:45

FYI Emily,I have the right to be as drunk as a very drunk thing without anyone thinking they can do anything to me or anyone thinking I contributed to how a rapist preys on people.

BasilBabyEater · 16/10/2013 16:37

Given that there's no correlation between being drunk and being raped, but there is one between drinking and raping, it's surprising that more energy isn't directed at telling young men not to get drunk in case they rape someone as a result of their alcohol consumption.

YouMakeMeWannaLaLa · 16/10/2013 16:32

Wow, what a revolutionary, new view that will stop all the rapes...wish someone had thought of it earlier! FFS!

Angry
ShirakawaKaede · 16/10/2013 16:12

Oh god, this old chesnut! The "I'm not victim-blaming, but..." Hmmm, let's see, what else is associated with sexual assault? Being in a relationship. So don't do that either, ever. Ugh!

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