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In reply to the discussion: Wall Street Journal thinks that rape is not a crime or that women are criminals for being raped. [View all]Recursion
(56,582 posts)I'm dead certain there are predatory women who get men drunk and sleep with them. I'm absolutely certain that happens, somewhere, some time.
When this becomes even 1 / 100th of the problem that predatory men getting women drunk and sleeping with them becomes, I'll be right there with you.
While it's obviously an interesting thought experiment (and, frankly, not so far removed from a thought experiment for a lot of us) about what the moral dimension of a man's being too drunk to give consent means, or whether there's a patriarchal subtext to the assumption that the man is necessarily the sexual aggressor in a "two drunk people" situation (and remember, the patriarchy is nobody's friend here...), we're still left with
A) the biological fact that the physical capacity for intercourse puts an upper bound on how drunk the man can be, but not the woman (and oh how that bound falls as the years go on...), and
B) the sociological fact that sexual predation of women in college is one of if not the biggest campus safety concerns in higher ed right now (and for the past 50 years or so).