More on booze, slut-dressing and rape

"Don't get drunk.  Don't binge-drink to the point where you pass out -- especially if you're with a bunch of men who are drinking too."  That's the always-sage -- but not politically-correct -- advice of Globe and Mail columnist, Margaret Wente. 

T'was ever thus.  Get drunk, lose the inhibitions and have sex.  University frollicking back in the sixties, when I was there, was full of incidents like this -- not that they necessarily happened to me, but they happened.  All the time.  To lots of girls.  We knew which parties and which guys to avoid because we knew what might befall us.  If we wanted that sort of evening, we went; if we didn't, we didn't  But don't ever tell a feminist the girl played any part in her sexual "assault".

"These people are so invested in the victim narrative they don't believe young women have a legitimate responsibility for what happens because they fail to protect themselves."  Wente adds.  Such women also ignore the obvious, that alcohol disinhibits both men and women.  "It impairs their judgment, sometimes ruinously, and makes it harder for people to get out of situations they'd rather not be in."

Couldn't agree more.  She points out that rape culture never blames sexual assault on booze culture; it's always the man's fault.  But obviously blotto boozing and sexual impropriety go hand-in-hand for both men and women.  Always have. 

Which brings me back to "slut-dressing".  There's a reason Amish, Mennonite and Muslim women cover themselves.  It's sexual.  North American women expose themselves -- often excessively -- and then wonder why men hit on them?  As my readers know, I heartily disagree with undue covering because it demeans and degrades women.  But I also don't agree with letting breasts fall out and derrieres flash.  That too is demeaning and degrading.

It's all about behaving reasonably, protecting and respecting yourself.