WSJ rape apologist says drunk women are to blame for rape

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WSJ Editor: Intoxicated Sexual Assault Victims Are Just As Guilty As Their Attackers

Wall Street Journal editor James Taranto claimed that cases of "'sexual assault' on campus" that involve alcohol are really victimless crimes in which both parties are equally guilty.

In his February 10 WSJ column, Taranto baselessly argued that men are often unfairly accused in sexual assault cases on college campuses, particularly when both men and women involved in the case were drinking (emphasis added):

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/02/10/wsj-editor-intoxicated-sexual-assault-victims-a/198007

[Adsos Letter]

1. yeah...

...NO!

[hlthe2b]

2. Not in the eyes of the law--where judges aren't blatant Neanderthal misogynists...

Always someone ELSE'S fault/responsibility in their attitudes...

[Skittles]

3. I remember reading a letter in a newspaper

from a guy who called BS on such sentiment - he said he and many of his friends had inbibed a lot of liquor while in college and never even thought about raping a woman.....I suspect that men like James Taranto are the kind of guys who DID engage in such criminal behavior, and in their tiny minds blaming the woman absolves them of any guilt

[Deep13]

4. Naturally. Everytime a woman drinks, she gets raped.

It's a law of nature, like gravity. We must not blame the poor, confused rapist.

How many rapes are caused by criminal sexual assault? Oh yeah, all of them. How many could have been prevented by an absence of men willing to commit such a crime? Again, all of them.

[Thinkingabout]

5. The guilty party is the rapist, an act of violence and not an act of compassion

[arely staircase]

6. who are these lucky ducky women who only have to get drunk

to get raped?

Please google lucky duck wsj before alerting. You will get it if you don't already

[gollygee]

7. Nope, no rape culture in this world

sigh