@Northernsoullover the problem with that advice is that most teenage and twenties social lives revolve around getting drunk. There's huge social pressure to do so. And the reality is that a man who wants to rape and is willing to select a drunk victim will, therefore, always have one.
When you tell young women and girls not to drink so they don't get victimised, firstly you're pushing against a huge pressure telling them that's how to have a social life.
And secondly, what you're also saying is, "make sure he rapes some other girl."
You don't reduce incidence with this advice because there will always be someone else who is more vulnerable. All the advice can do is shuffle who is higher up in the likely victim stakes.
It also ignores that most rape is by someone you know.
Obviously, it's important to warn girls individually that they are vulnerable when drunk, but all of us have been drunk and vulnerable, and luck separates who is assaulted and who isn't. Not choices. I don't know anyone who never went out drinking at university and in early career stage. And I can't help feeling advice such as this simply reinforces the messages girls get from earliest life, that we can control what happens to us. By definition, it happens without our consent. We're not the ones with a say. So why is all the focus on telling us what to do?
for you. I'm so sorry you were the vulnerable one he chose to harm that day. It would have been someone else were it not you. I do agree that we need to remind our girls of that on an individual basis... but it really will only juggle the victims, and the police should know that.