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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thinking that alcohol doesn't matter is just dumb. Placing responsibility for your own safety onto other drunk people is equally dumb. Has she not passed out it would have been a regular college hook up. Had he not been there she would have passed out anyway and possibly found behind the same dumpster. Drinking is a choice and with choices come consequences. I am having very hard time feeling sorry for her.[/quote]

I do feel sorry for her. I don't think the natural consequence of drinking is rape. However, it certainly is a potential consequence, and one that should not be ignored.

Compare it to smoking. Many people who smoke get lung cancer. Some people who smoke do not. Some people get lung cancer without ever having smoked. If you smoke and get lung cancer, it doesn't mean you deserved to get lung cancer. It does mean you made a stupid decision that increased your risk. A decision you would have been better off not making.

So it is with drinking at a party. It's just better not to do it. Plenty of people drink at parties and are fine, just like plenty of people smoke and are fine, and plenty of people go running by themselves at 2 am with headphones and are fine. But a hell of a lot of people do these things and are not fine. Do you really want to take the chance that you'll be one of them?  [b]Cutting down on alcohol consumption would not eliminate rape and sexual assault, but it would go a long way towards reducing it[/b].[/quote]

I am fine with that message if it is directed to both men and women.  If you only direct it towards women, you are making women solely responsible for preventing their own rapes.  Men have to be accountable for changing their behavior, too. [/quote]

NP here - and I DEFINITELY think both men and women should be counseled about drinking and rape.[/quote]

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