In the old days, when a guy got drunk and slept with someone and had regrets, it was chalked up to a learning experience. The same was true for a girl.
Now, if a girl gets drunk and has regrets, it's called rape.
I remember watching an episode of Cheers recently with my son where Carla sleeps with a semi-regular at the bar, but can't remember who she took home. I had to warn my son that today, the guy will get blamed for rape, because today, it doesn't matter if they are both drunk, the guy is the villain if they are both drunk.
Men have no rights anymore, they are always the villain. It's interesting how everything has become political.
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Then again in the past if a man raped a women, well.... it was just considered sex and the woman had to deal with it.
I agree with you, but we aren't talking about rape here.
The feminist culture is redefining the terms.
What we are talking about is girls going to parties, getting drunk, and sleeping with guys. In the morning, they feel shame about what they did, and when the guy they like doesn't call them back or want to have anything to do with them, they turn around and call it rape because they are hurt.
In some instances, yes, it is forced sex, but in many others, it is murky at best. Neither the guy or girl can actually remember what happened. So you tell me, who can be blamed? Can anyone?
All I am saying is, if the girl was drunk, there IS NO RAPE. If she was binge drinking and partying so hard, and the guy she was with was doing the same thing, then neither can be held criminally liable for anything.
If they can be, why can't the man say he was raped?
It's like folks don't remember college, have never been, or went to a lame school.
We're not talking about rape? Er... the thread title is about rape.
However I understand what you're saying about people making stuff up. But then again rape is always a hard one to deal with. How do you find a balance of encouraging people to report the crime, but discourage those who weren't raped from not reporting the crime?
What was being said was essentially that it was better when men raped and got away with it, than now where women could potentially use it as a weapon.
Do we give men the license to rape? Do we give women the license to cry wolf?
No, what we do is tell young people to have some common sense, decency and morality.
We tell them to use their heads and roll back the sexual mores of the late sixties and seventies that told them that sex is a toy and a game of pleasure to be used and abused at parties. All one needs to do is watch prime time TV or listen to the Top forty music to get a clue as to what is going on about these mixed messages they are receiving. Popular culture and their peer group tell them one thing; the family, polite society and faith tell them another. Is it any wonder young ladies feel regret about their behavior when they feel they have crossed the line? It is easier to blame others for what they feel are their personal failings, than to pin it on individual desires.
Hell, junior high school kids don't even think giving each other oral sex is even sex anymore because of the MSM culture. If this is the message we are sending them, is it any wonder that they act like drunken debauched Romans having an orgy in college on weekends, treating their bodies like an amusement park? If that is the attitude they are going to adopt, it is time to quit coddling them; it is time to stop having one code of ethics at night time on the weekends, and another Monday morning.
Sending mixed messages about what society expects is what is leading to this problem.
If we do these things, then we will know.
When a woman is sober, and she is attacked and raped, we will know.
If the man and the woman both know what went on, and the witnesses to their "date" both know that they were not binge drinking, folks will know what was a crime of dominance, and what was a drunken night out on the town of both genders looking to get their kicks.