Saturday, March 1, 2008

The Week calls non-consensual sex "boorishness"

I'll let you read the whole article on your own, but basically The Week thinks: 


a) consent doesn't matter--in fact, they didn't even bring up the issue of ability to give consent at all
b) if you're "staggeringly drunk" and have sex, it's sad but your fault if you "regret it"
c) misogyny, purposely intoxicating women in order to have sex with them and other forms of rape culture are simply "boorishness" 
d) a victim has to call it rape in order for it to be rape.  So that's true when battered women deny they've been beaten by their husbands right? That's not abuse, right?
e) it's all the "feminists" fault for bringing the issue of date rape to prominence on college campuses

Their "arguments" were quite juvenile, several steps behind most rape apology arguments I've seen. Fuck you, The Week. 


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