fyi: it’s “drugs”

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    Am I the only one thinking consent isn’t enough?

    I mean, a few of you at least have ever had sex with someone who was not participating, just being passive, clearly “accepting but not willing”. Am I the only one to find it a turn off?

    To make love together requires a cooperation… of course not to “fuck someone” but this one is supposed in a domination, but if you need that some one be passed out to dominate them, what do you think of yourself?

    If you want a sex toy, please buy it in some shop, it has never been that easy. If you want to make love, you need to seduce someone enough so they are genuinely willing to do it with you.

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      You’re right and it’s tragic. It’s part of the punching down systems these guys benefit from when they climb in the hierarchies, the old boys’ club. I’m a guy and have seen how guys can benefit in life, but shouldn’t use it to hurt others. Same thing in many families, supernatural groups, sports, frats, military, and right-wing politics. People cant wait for their turn to punch down on someone and it’s indoctrinated as normal and good. They all hide their abusive ways, where real truth stands in the open. Tribalism, right/wrong obedient to authority, it’s easier than having real convictions, and just go along with what was brainwashed into them. And again these guys benefit from their privilege and get mad when that word is used, since their ego takes over and they have not ego awareness as we all need, but that’s part of these unhealthy systems.

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        A very sad thing is that, unless we take care of it, we are all bound to value this “winning male” behaviour as not only normal but also as good! The ones aware don’t need to make an effort to see how wrong it is… but take a young adult male who became a successfull influencer or businessman, how surprising would it be that he abused sexualy of someone? Isn’t it in the pack with the success? Of course it should not be… but we would need that young men grow understanding that abusing others is gross and a lesser thing.

        And so, breaking idols out of abusive behavior isn’t just to piss off their fans. It is to make abuse incompatible with success. To turn “yes, of course, he is such a man!” into “he fucked up, he is such a looser!”… which would be a nice step taken against patriarchy, and hopefully not the last one!

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      Completely agree with you. I honestly feel a little sick if someone says they were doing it as a favor to me. Don’t do that. If you aren’t into it, just tell me. I can take of myself in that case.

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        Thank you!

        And yes, lets have a fun time together doing something we are both willing to do together! It will be a better time for everyone!

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    There might not be any rapist at the party until they become one at that party. It’s not like they’re born a rapist. It’s a consequence of their own actions.

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      But you may have been raised a rapist when the messaging is women are objects of desire with limited purpose in life, which includes satisfying men’s vanity, but also treating them like we’re all their moms the rest of the time…

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        Even then, you’re not raised a rapist, you would have been raised someone who is more likely to become a rapist. You aren’t that until you actually become it. I don’t think we should be accusing anyone of anything before they’ve even done it. You should absolutely call out any shitty behavior that leads you to suspect they’ll do harm to others wither it’s rape, murder, or some other crime. By saying they already were a rapist or raised as a rapist you’re taking away their free agency and kind ironically saying it wasn’t their fault that’s just how they were raised.

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          Thought provoking comment, thanks. If I’m interpreting what you’re saying correctly, there are people who find rape attractive, where they get off on the idea of raping someone. But a person feeling that way should not be called a rapist, because that’s a term that should be reserved for those who have actually committed the act of rape. Perhaps some psychological or medical term should be used for the rape-attracted instead?

          That’s interesting, and complicates my worldview slightly. To shift topic, I’d begun to separate the idea of a pedophile from a child rapist. Because if someone has attractions to children, it’s not the same thing as that person being sexually involved with them. At first this seems to reinforce what I interpret you’re saying. Where the same term “pedo” is inappropriately used for both those who have and haven’t hurt children.

          However, in the “pedo” case those who haven’t hurt children had the name first, and then that name was extended by popular culture to also mean those who have hurt children. Whereas with rapist it’s the reverse, where the common term is for the person who has committed the act, but there isn’t a common term for one who hasn’t.

          And there’s a third case. In some cases we’ve begun to separate actions and defining a person by them. For example, “alcoholic” vs “someone with alcohol use disorder”, because someone can receive treatment and stop using alcohol. So, is there a potential third term for someone who stops raping? I think not, at least not anytime soon. There’s no known effective treatment for having attractions. For example, conversion therapy to “cure” homosexuality was nothing less than torture and also a complete failure. Chemical castration doesn’t remove attractions either, just sex drive. Modern therapy for various attractions involves helping the person accept the attraction not trying to remove the attraction. Therefore, if someone rapes once does that mean they should be forever defined as a rapist? In the present day, I’d say yes. Perhaps in the future we’ll have advanced our knowledge of medicine and the mind to be able to change attractions, but right now that’s simply not possible.

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            A lot of people seem to hate the idea that someone who is capable of coming up with or having some sort of affinity towards an activity and someone who has already committed that activity are separate. Mostly, they would point out that you need active pressure of society or laws to prevent the behavior.

            Personally, I think active prevention, separating the concepts of impulse from activity, and working with people who are generally maladapted to society, but haven’t committed any actual harm would be a good thing, but these kinds of concepts have a lot of pushback from people.

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            I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not… But there are legitimately people that do rape roleplay.

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      If you haven’t raped anyone, but would if you thought consequences wouldn’t come back to you, then you’re a rapist.

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        That’s 100% not how that works. You’re getting into thought crime territory. You’re not a rapist until you rape. You’re not a murderer until you murder. You can’t accuse someone of something they might do.

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        I get the sentiment but I’m willing to bet a vast majority of people genuinely think they would “just do the right thing in that situation.” But people underestimate the temptation in the moment. They’ve never actually thought to try and put themselves in that situation, or what they might do, they just thought “of course im a good person” and left it at that.

        And naturally the mere suggestion of “thinking it out” is met with ridicule. “How can you even consider it?! This should be a fast, easy answer!!”. When not thinking about it at all is what contributed to it happening.

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          What temptation? It is not a donut at 2am when you are on a diet. If you find yourself with someone your hate in a situation to commit the perfect crime, would you kill them, would that be tempting? Jesus.

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            Actually proving the second part of my comment true so thanks for that. The idea that everyone will “just do the right thing” all the time is incredibly naive imo. Not meaning that as an insult either.

            Idk where you’re from, but if you were alone in a room with Donald Trump, or Putin, or Netanyahu, and there was a confirmed 0% chance you would get caught, you would seriously not even consider killing them?

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          Anecdotal evidence: I’m a frat boy who has been in this situation multiple times. I can’t even understand how that would be tempting to a non-rapist; the sex wouldn’t even be good! My layman understanding is that it’s about power, not horny.

          This situation came up so often that we had a standard procedure of getting the girls rehydrated and in a cab.

          IMHO the problem isn’t that most men want to rape, it’s that most men would cover for an alleged rapist friend. They value their gender team over basic decency.

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            You’re also thinking describing an extreme scenario. What about the scenario when you’re both drunk and just too impaired to make good decisions? The other person isn’t in the right mind to consent but you were both fooling around before you both got too fucked up. That’s a scenario where bad decisions get made. From my understanding the facilitating of those scenarios is “rape culture”. Not every case is going to be a simple as one person was sober and the other was passed out.

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              You make it seem like when someone is drunk they may do anything. If I killed someone while I was drunk I wouldn’t just chuckle “sorry I wasn’t myself”. I would feel extreme remorse and want to repent for the harm I caused.

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                So why does the same not apply to sex?

                Why is it if two people are both drunk and have sex, that only one is at fault?

                If a woman is drunk and goes to a drunk guy at a party and tells him she wants to have sex, why does that make him a rapist?

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                  If a woman is drunk and goes to a drunk guy at a party and tells him she wants to have sex, why does that make him a rapist?

                  It doesn’t.

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              FWIW I’m only talking about situations like this meme, the Cornell 7, and what I’ve seen personally. Not disputing that nuanced situations exist.

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                Fair enough. Just seems like it’s a cartoonish scenario without any ambiguity that really isn’t worth pondering.

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      Honestly, its a poor worded post. Pretty sure, no one would invite actual rapists to parties.

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        People invite actual rapists to parties all the time. Most victims know their rapists before the rape happens.

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          But do they know if they are a rapist? Even then, there are definitely people who knowingly invite rapist to a party. Epstein famously did that.

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            Yes and no. As you said, there are many such cases of people knowingly inviting rapists to parties.

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      If you’re willing to commit rape, you’re already a rapist even if you haven’t done it yet. Not legally, of course, but morally speaking there’s no difference between wanting to do it and doing it.

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        There is a huge, giant fucking massive difference between someone that would plausibly commit rape and someone who has committed rape.

        The main difference is in one case, someone gets raped.

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          Well, yeah. There’s a huge difference for the victim. But I wouldn’t say lack of opportunity is a moral victory for the would-be rapist.

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          The main difference is in one case, someone gets raped.

          Interesting use of passive voice.

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            Brother really had no argument.

            “Erm you use the wrong there/their. The’refour your argument is invalid”-ass response

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              I just think it’s interesting that even in that short comment, you avoid assigning blame to the rapist and instead choose the passive “someone gets raped”.

              Kinda like when cops shoot people. It’s always “person of interest was shot” instead of “the police shot the suspect”.

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      Sounds like something only a rapist would give reason to rape. Starts with never asking for permission. Ends with that too.

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    If someone shows up drunk and naked and starts taking drugs you should stay away from them no mater which sex they are. I mean stay away forever.

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      Unless it’s a swingers thing, but then they all know what they’re getting themselves into.

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    It’s so strange to me that the argument of she was drunk and / or on drugs so strange.

    These are reasons that she could never consent. Therefore any sexual act with her would be assault

    It feels so weird to me that they think this is some kind of “gotcha”.

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      Does it make more sense if it’s presented as

      If a woman goes to a party, she won’t be raped unless there’s a rapist there.
      This holds true even if she’s on drugs and naked.

      Because the drugs aren’t the point

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      Its the typical shaming. The attempt to blame the victim. Always so wrong but seems for a lot of people legit.

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      The more interesting one is what if both are under the influence of alcohol/drugs?

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        It really depends on the situation. Two people of similar intoxication levels can consent. But at the same time when with an intoxicated person you need to be making certain they’re moving forward with you and consenting.

        At least that’s my perspective as someone who will get involved with strangers while drinking at bars.

        When someone’s blacked out or unable to enthusiastically consent (ie advance the acts of their own volition without being pressured or otherwise coerced) then they fundamentally can’t consent

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            It’s hard for two unconscious people to have sex. One of them has to be conscious enough to be able to move. Even if they are drunk they are still responsible for having sex with unconscious person.

            It may depend on jurisdiction but usually it’s illegal to have sex with someone unable to consent. I think that if they are drunk but are still consenting (verbally or non-verbally) it’s not considered rape.

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    Not going to defend any rapists here, the statements are true, but there must be done recognition of placing yourself in an extremely dangerous position by your own choices.

    Still doesn’t excuse rape, by any stretch, but bad decisions are still bad decisions.

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      Yeah rapists should be careful about placing themselves in positions where they can rape someone. Glad we agree.

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      The situation described is only dangerous if there is a dangerous person there. Rape victims are not responsible for being raped. Rapists are.

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      I get how you mean this, but it’s so fucked up that a house party is “an extremely dangerous position” to be in.

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        Being inebriated around dozens to hundreds of strangers who themselves are consuming mind altering substances isn’t exactly a safe situation. Take the fun of it being a party away from it and just zoom out with that context. Nobody has their full faculties.

        I’ll pile on with there is no defense of predators, but you can make choices about the environment that you put yourself in and the state that you are in when you go there.

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          The point continues to be missed: why is it unsafe?

          No one disputes that that situation is unsafe. People are saying that it’s unsafe because of rapists. Pointing out that you shouldn’t do unsafe things is asinine when the point being made is that people shouldn’t act in a fashion that makes them a danger to others.

          Ignoring that the hazard is due to the choices of live humans with agency and entirely placing the agency on the victim is the crux of the problem.

          Flip it around: you shouldn’t be inebriated in a situation where there are hundreds of people you can hurt.

          The victim has no control over where the hazard goes. The rapist chooses where it’s dangerous for the victim to be. Big party? Dangerous if there’s a rapist there. Intimate gathering of friends? Dangerous if one of them is a rapist.

          Rapists are not lightning. They don’t randomly strike in hazardous situations beyond anyone’s control where the best advice is “don’t stand under a big tree or you might get raped by lightning”.
          They’re humans committing a crime against another person.

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          Can a man go to a party naked and drunk without it being unsafe? Mostly yes? Then it seems to be a problem with rape culture, doesn’t it.

          Consent is consent is consent. And if men respected consent, we wouldn’t need to have this conversation at all.

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            I’m a dude and I wouldn’t feel safe going to a party naked, drunk or not.

            I’m also not prone to going to house parties, or getting drunk/doing drugs, so I might be an outlier here.

            To be blunt, unless you’re in a context where it’s normalized, being naked in any situation is probably an unsafe activity, regardless of gender, or the environment. The obvious exceptions here being private or secured spaces, including bathrooms, changing rooms/locker rooms, and other public facilities like showers and such. Any medical situation. Also, any nudist areas… Probably more that I’m not thinking about.

            Just because, as a man, I’m not as likely to be raped, doesn’t mean it can’t happen, or even that it’s unlikely to happen. I have no doubt that every community including the LGBTQIA+ communities, have some rapists in their ranks. Not many, surely, but not zero either. So there’s a nontrivial chance of me, as a guy, going to a house party drunk, doing drugs, then getting raped, either by a man, or a woman.

            This is a human problem.

            At the same time, I recognize that women are raped in far higher numbers than men, or at least that’s what the statistics show, so there’s extra risk there based on the statistics alone. That doesn’t make it safe for a dude to go and do the same thing.

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              I think the “human problem” is another problem entirely, and imo handwaves the fact that there is one very specific gendered dynamic where this is a problem, to the point where we in the comments are going like “well obviously there are going to be some rapists in mixed company, and given the opportunity to rape…”

              That is rape culture right up in here, and there are things we can do to mitigate it.

              It’s like both cars and cyclists can injure pedestrians but there are reasons why one of these is much more prevalent. Bad analogy but hopefully you can look past it to see my point.

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                I like you, you can come to my house parties.

                I’m not denying, nor am I trying to deny that the scales are not balanced in terms of perpetrators and victims of rape.

                Nor do I mean to say, nor imply, that there are not groups of rapists, and people who are okay with them, or support them.

                I also equally recognise that the number of people in those groups is relatively small in comparison to the overall population.

                That doesn’t and shouldn’t imply that I don’t think something should be done.

                The problem is anyone who is complacent with the act, who perpetrates the act, anyone who covers up the act, and any judge, jury, or court, that would deny someone justice in the face of evidence of the act, even if that evidence is simply the victims side of the story.

                I also think anyone using an accusation of rape to smear someone or get them in trouble, when no crime has been committed, should be severely punished for creating a false report.

                In my opinion, everyone should be doing everything to find, report, and/or otherwise stop rapists at all times, in every circumstance. It should be the duty of every individual in society to put these people in jail, or stop them by whatever means are necessary. To me, the only ones that are not committed to this, are rapists, sympathisers, or enablers, all of which should be given the same punishment.

                It’s not up to me to say what that punishment should be. That’s up to society. I am not a rapist, nor am I a victim, so I have no basis to judge what a fair punishment should be, nor do I have any stake in making that punishment any less severe than what the victims need that would best help with their recovery from such a trauma.

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                  I also think anyone using an accusation of rape to smear someone or get them in trouble, when no crime has been committed, should be severely punished for creating a false report.

                  You just had to elevate false reports to the same level as actual rape, didn’t you?

                  Jesus Christ.

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              The obvious exceptions here being private or secured spaces, including bathrooms, changing rooms/locker rooms, and other public facilities like showers and such. Any medical situation. Also, any nudist areas

              Those are dangerous for women, too.

              You’re missing the point that even naked and doing drugs, no one should be raped. It’s not an invitation.

              The danger comes from others willing to take advantage of someone in that situation, not the situation itself.

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                You and I agree, as far as I can tell.

                I think we both disagree with this statement (which spurred my comment):

                Can a man go to a party naked and drunk without it being unsafe? Mostly yes?

                The answer is no. This isn’t really a gender problem. It’s a rape problem. Just don’t fucking rape people.

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                  The answer is no. This isn’t really a gender problem. It’s a rape problem. Just don’t fucking rape people.

                  Please stop diminishing the facts about rape.

                  You’re getting caught up in the nitty gritty details of the meme scenario without looking at the big picture.

                  Yes, men and women are raped. It does no good to pretend like they’re being raped in a vacuum by some faceless entity we can’t identify.

                  76% of reported rapes are perpetrated by someone the victim already knew

                  When we talk about sexual violence, the focus too often falls on what survivors did, where they were, or whether they reported. But rape happens because someone chooses to violate another person’s consent.

                  According to FBI crime data, an average of 107,418 U.S. men are the perpetrators of reported rape each year.

                  Each year, an average of 5,510 female perpetrators are reported for rape, according to law enforcement reporting.

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            I’m a man and no, I would not feel safe arriving at a part drunk & naked & doing drugs.

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      Yeah, uh, not going to criticize you here, but have you tried not missing the point?

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      Humans are hairless apes. You can acknowledge that the rapist at a frat party made a mistake, while also acknowledging that the naked woman made a bad mistake of entering the hairless ape enclosure in that state.

      It would be wonderful if we lived in a world where every hairless ape had perfect self-control, was raised with absolutely enlightened beliefs, and never let alcohol or drugs impair their judgment. It makes perfect sense to punish any hairless ape that breaks a law.

      OTOH, if you’re the parents of a young woman, you should teach her to be very careful when choosing to enter the hairless ape enclosure because humanity hasn’t yet reached a stage where that’s always safe.

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        You can acknowledge that the rapist at a frat party made a mistake

        Woah. Stop right there. A mistake is an action taken in error.
        Those frat boys deliberately raped that girl. Their actions were not mistakes, they were deliberate criminal acts.
        Do not confuse the two. This is the difference between accidentally discharging a firearm and taking aim and firing.

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        OTOH, if you’re the parents of a young woman, you should teach her to be very careful when choosing to enter the hairless ape enclosure because humanity hasn’t yet reached a stage where that’s always safe.

        You mean the entire fucking world?

        Are you seriously advocating that women should stay within the four walls of their own home? (Which also isn’t safe for women, by the way - a lot of rape is done at the hands of family members.)

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      placing yourself in an extremely dangerous position by your own choices.

      Why are the situations/positions dangerous?

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        Because showing up drunk and naked, then doing drugs, is generally risky behavior?

        Regardless of gender, unless you’re at a nudist resort, surrounded by trusted individuals, there is risk to being in this situation.

        Even sober, showing up naked to any place where nudity is not the norm, carries risk.

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      I still like the “If you ride a bike and get run over, it’s the drivers fault. But you should still wear a helmet” metaphor. But I believe some people think it’s a defense of rapists, which it’s not.

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        The graveyards are full of people who were not at fault, and/or in the right with their actions.

        As you say, the driver is (or at least should be) at fault. But wear a helmet anyways. That metaphor has legs. It applies to all kinds of things, from personal protection equipment, to situational hazards, to environmental hazards…

        Like the guy climbing up on the umpteenth floor of a high-rise during its construction where that floor doesn’t have outside walls, or guard rails or anything… He’s not planning on falling, but he should wear fall arrest gear anyways.

        I don’t plan on getting hit by a car when I direct traffic to a parking area, but I still wear a high vis vest and stand out of the path where cars are going to drive…

        It’s not about blaming the victim at all. Victims are victims. But before you become a victim, you can take steps to avoid becoming one. Once you are a victim, anyone pointing out what you could have done to avoid becoming a victim, is an asshole.

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          I don’t plan on getting hit by a car when I direct traffic to a parking area, but I still wear a high vis vest and stand out of the path where cars are going to drive…

          I didn’t know rapists were trying to get somewhere else and didn’t see their victim before they shoved their penis inside one of their orifices.

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              All of these metaphors are assuming rape is inevitable and we should focus on mitigating the risk of rape instead of focusing on diminishing rapists.

              The fault lies entirely with the person committing rape against someone else.

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                  No, stop. We should not and can not only focus on rape victims and what they should do to avoid being raped.

                  People can and do influence others from being rapists. We all take part in our rape culture and we can all examine those beliefs.

                  What Bystanders Can Do to Stop Sexual Violence

                  Another approach for preventing sexual assault is to learn strategies for intervening. Bystander intervention programs emphasize the importance of stopping bad behavior before it escalates, teach specific skills for intervening, and remind people that everyone has a responsibility to prevent sexual violence.

                  Students who participate in such programs are more confident in their ability to intervene and more willing to do so. Most importantly, rates of sexual violence are markedly lower on campuses that have implemented these programs. For example, one study found that experiences of sexual harassment and stalking were 11% lower and that instances of unwanted sexual activity with women who were too drunk or high to stop them were as much as 17% lower.

                  It’s tempting to read about the Cornell case and assume the apparent inaction in the face of problematic behavior is uniquely a problem at one college, or only with members of fraternities, or only with college students. But the reality is that pretty much everyone has been in situations where they’ve seen potentially problematic behavior and failed to speak up.

                  Understanding the very normal psychological factors that lead people to misperceive what others are actually thinking and feeling—and learning specific strategies for intervening—can make a real difference.

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              I don’t think you want to know the honest answer to that question on this topic.

              Maybe you’ll think a little harder about the next metaphor you use for rape though.

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          Do you think the lesson in that metaphor is that I think women should be wearing helmets…?

          It’s not meant literally.

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            It’s not my fault you can’t connect the dots here.

            You’re still blaming victims for not wearing helmets when they’re hit by the driver instead of placing the blame on the driver for hitting the cyclist.

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              This isn’t productive so I’m going to stop responding to your bad faith bait.

              Try rereading the metaphor. Because I directly addressed who’s at fault.

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        I don’t hate the idea, but that infringes on the basic civil rights in most countries.

        I don’t think this should be exclusive to Men. Women should be killing rapists in self defense, and that should be ok.

        My main issue is whether the person doing the killing is correct in their assumption of guilt regarding the perpetrator (or accused).

        But this is why we don’t have this kind of martial law. Everyone is entitled to be judged by a jury of their “peers”. Even low life scum like murderers and rapists.

        To be honest, I consider rape to be more severe than murder, because now that person has to live the rest of their life, permanently changed from the experience. To me, that makes it a form of torture. Dead people don’t have to live with their trauma.

        Not to diminish how severe of a crime murder is, at all. It’s easily a close second, but IMO, rape is top of my list in terms of how heinous it is.

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      I didn’t make the rules, but a retvrn to etiquette requires treating women with arbitrary total respect because men are trash.

      This has never happened.

      Why is asking for a little less rape met with this kind of incredulousness?

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      I wanted one since long before then. I am a bit worried we’ll end up with a strongly conservative matriarchy that won’t look severely different than what we have now, but I think the only chance we have to swing left of ‘left’ is to shake up the patriarchy.

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          Anarchy sounds nice until you have a task big enough to require people to work together, or to do shitty work no one wants to do, or to deal with outside aggressors, or to resolve conflict.

          There’s probably something in between anarchy, dictatorship, republic, communism that works, but we haven’t found it yet.

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    If someone is high on drugs and/or drunk, does that also mean I can rob them without consequences, or the rule only applies for rape?

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    mhm mhm

    but also do not show up naked to a party unless it’s a nude party cause otherwise thats literally sexual harassment

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    I feel the rave/techno scene is like that (at least in Europe)…. And among all my friends that got raped/SA I didn’t heard yet a single one that got raped at a rave/techno party. Not saying it doesn’t happen but it feels much less than “socially respectable” parties, ex boyfriends, friends of friends, etc.

    I wonder if it is because people that are attracted by that scene are in a certain way or the community has a strong culture of consent or something else.

    But I would love to read if there is any statistical study on correlation between certain “scenes” and sexual abuse… and if there is a rational explanation on the causation

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      But I would love to read if there is any statistical study on correlation between certain “scenes” and sexual abuse…

      I fear rave metrics are probably mostly impossible to collect. Anonymous events with illegal substances don’t generate a lot of usable data

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    I’ve always been a total wierdo, but even at sixteen, when I was a desperate, frustrated incel, if a girl (in this case, a peer) had to get sloshed to be into me, it’d freak me out.

    Pretty much through my entire romantic career, meeting at a bar instead of a café was a red flag. Sex always seemed like a sober activity. Or more exactly, sex supplies its own drugs. Morover, once someone was not coherent enough to do crosswords, it was clear they weren’t clear headed enough to consent to fluid exchange.

    Granted, there are two factors that inform this attitude: One is my parents were sloppy drunks and went to sloppy-drunk parties. And I never wanted to be like that. The other is I made my way into the kink community in my twenties, and mixing drugs or booze with kink was geberallt generally known to be dangerous like mixing drugs and booze with motor vehicles or guns. (At least in my corner of the kink community. Also breath-control was a no-no and kids seem to be choking each other all over the place, nowadays.)

    But then, I’ve never been a frat dude, or even the kind of guy who’d ever be sponsored to join a Greek house.

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      Kinda same. Even in my most incel times my most fucked up fantasies there the other party was getting totally ravaged, the reason it was sexy was because they consented, because they wanted it, because they were feeling pleasure from it. It was sexy because I was able to empathize with the imaginary other.

      I guess fantasy me doesn’t really care about hammered sex, but real me would never be that hammered and would instantly be worried if the OP happened, can’t get aroused if I’m worried. Crazy how some guys are.