I cannot believe I have to type this out, but okay, sure, why not. Hooking up is about women and men engaging in consensual sexual activity at a rate which some people find alarming... blah, blah, blah. Hook up culture is about binge drinking, getting wasted, hooking up with somebody, anybody that night, not really knowing who it is or caring and not really remembering it and then laughing about it in the morning. Rape is the LACK of consent. Everybody agrees there. But nobody has the definition of consent. Even the California statue says when the assault occurs due to limited capacity due to drugs or alcohol the would be rapist has to show they knew the person is of a limited capacity ... so if a really big drinker who holds her liquor pretty well can appear to be sober enough to sort of consent, it is okay.... or is it? In addition, each state has a different definition of consent. Also the time that consent ends, is vague as well. Is it 1 second after she passes out, 1 second before she passes out. Do you have to look her in the eyes the whole time to make sure they are open, do you ask her to open them every 1 second just to check. Really? Just because somebody is drunk and slurring their words or even stumbling ... does not mean they can not consent. It creates a gray area, where a woman feels she was raped but the other party feels it was consensual. It is a problem. |
I must have gotten in because of affirmative action. |
what if they guy is in the same condition as the girl? I think we tell girls and boys... no drinking before you are 21, after 21 no drinking to the point you are drunk, no sleeping with people you are not dating. Why do I get push back from that notion? |
Doesn't matter. When a person becomes unconscious, you're not having sex with them anymore, it's rape. You take them to the hospital so they'll recover in a safe place. You don't worry about getting laid when a person's health is at stake. |
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I can't believe this thread has gone on so long. The simple thing one can take away from this, is DON'T RAPE.
That's it. It's simple. It's completely simple. Just don't. The details about the victim do not matter. Her choices are hers alone. None of them matter, with regards to rape - JUST DON'T RAPE. DON'T ASSAULT. It's so fucking easy to avoid. Teach your son's DON'T RAPE. Clearly Brock's parents, especially his dad, failed to teach his kid this very simple thing. It isn't hard or complicated at all. If there's any doubt, then DON'T. How any of this is complicated is mind boggling. |
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My partner told me a few stories from the days before we met that showed me how real men behave. Once, a roommate of his, who was completely off the rails, brought home a girl who was young, beautiful, and completely wasted on mushrooms. She wandered to my partner's room and decided she wanted to hang out there. The MN who had brought her was long gone and my partner didn't know what to do other than make sure she was ok. He said she was rubbing on him and trying her best to have sex, but he said she was so high, there was no way he was going to even kiss her. He managed to keep her amused in other ways until she finally fell asleep. He didn't lie- he said it was very, very difficult to hold back- but he knew it would have been a horrible thing to do. He was drinking as well, but still had the character to be like a big brother to this young lady, instead of a sex starved man that can't control himself.
He told me this happened again with a woman on a date, who had a few drinks and kept saying yes, no, yes, no. He tucked her in and let her sleep it off. I'm sure both women were appreciative of the kindness. Real men cover passed out girls with a blanket or get them home safely. They don't touch them and then claim consent later. The drinking has always existed and will always exist. We can and will teach our daughters safety, but if the unexpected happens, it should be expected of men to act like decent humans. This isn't an issue of drinking, it's the issue of how a man can learn to not rape. Why are so many men so rapey? Why does almost every woman have an assault story? |
THANK YOU. +1,000,000 EXACTLY. |
Okay, here's my advice. If it's a gray area and a guy isn't sure whether a woman is so drunk she can legally consent to sex, then it's time for him to take his toys and go home and beat off. At the best, we would hope the guy actually cares whether the woman consents or not and he wants to be a good buy. But at the worst, he should worry about whether he can be charged with a crime. And what's the worst that happens if she really wants it and he decides she's too drunk to give consent? Some people don't have sex with each other and they go home and masturbate. Such a tragedy. |
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Not all men are rape. Not every woman has a story. I've also never gotten drunk at a hookup bar or party, either. I don't want to hookup, and I never have. |
Yes. Even if she was totally on board and left that party with him willingly, even if she had gone behind the dumpsters and had willingly begun to fool around with him, the minute she became unresponsive and unaware of her surroundings he needed to stop immediately. We don't know what happened or how they ended up behind the dumpsters. The Swedes apparently saw what they thought was a rape. I haven't read their statements so I don't know exactly what they have described seeing. But it sounds as though they saw this guy dry humping this half naked, passed out girl - and that is what led them to chase him and tackle him. No one knows how much these two were doing together before she passed out. It could be that she was actively fooling around with him and that her underwear was removed by her - we don't know. Maybe she passed out on the sidewalk and he dragged her unconscious body behind the dumpster and proceeded to remove her clothes and assault her. We don't know. One thing that we do know is that no woman on God's green earth would ever want to be in a situation like this. This woman has been violated so many times - by this guy shoving his fingers into her or at least dry humping her passed out body, by the cops photographing her half naked passed out body, by the complete rape kit exam (swabbing, dye, more stuff shoved into her) and the additional crime photographs of her naked body. Now the trial and seeing all of that graphic evidence splayed out for all to see. As a woman, this whole process absolutely sickens me. But I also see how - because of her drunken, unresponsive state the authorities had no more idea what happened to this woman than she did. |
If f the Swedes hadn't come by, whatever he had done before or after she passed out, she never would have known. Nobody would have known, not her, not us. |
y Because the fact that he was drunk too has to be ignored for these women to be right. All their protests fall apart. If she was too drunk to know better, consent, etc, it stands to reason he could have been as well - in fact, his BAC level confirmed it. Only women are affected by alcohol, apparently. Women want their alcohol, their hook ups AND the legal right to state rape, even when it's simply regret or they don't remember |
examples, please. stop making this crap up. |