nomadthethird
more issues than Time mag
Precisely, thanks Mr Tea. The amount of blokes I've known that went out, got bladdered and then got the shit kicked out of them for reasons that they were utterly unaware of are too numerous to mention. Would this have occurred if they weren't drunk - possibly, would they have been able to get out of this if they weren't drunk - possibly, were they able to avoid this whilst drunk - apparently not.
I've seen plenty of cases where women who were passed out in cars got raped by their taxi driver - would they have tried this if she was sober and able to identify them afterwards? Like I say, it's not a problem with drinking alcohol per se, it's very much a problem of drinking till paralytic and then having no idea what's going on, not knowing where your friends are, etc. The idea that women don't get into that state unless they've been spiked is a nonsense, because I've witnessed women (and men) that drunk on far too many occassions, some who injured themselves, ended up in hospital and had no idea how they got there - they got that drunk cause they could and they wanted to.
Do try and understand that this isn't being condescending to the poor ickle ladies, just that I have plenty of women friends that do get themselves this fucked and seem to think that because something hasn't happened yet that it won't. Most of them fortunately have good people around them, but this doesn't mean they're always there. I can remember ages back when I met up with a random group at the pub, ended up back at their friend's house chatting and boozing and by the end of the night their incredibly drunk friend had just basically fallen asleep in my lap, and they were all wandering off home - now I left with them, but if I'd been some rapist piece of shit, that would be a gift wouldn't it?
I don't think you get it. If you were a rapist, you'd find a way to rape someone with or without alcohol.