Stop predators, including those preying on drunk people.
10 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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Mike Domitrz argues that getting drunk is not consent to sex. Intoxication makes someone unable to consent, and blaming victims for drinking is just excusing assault.

Mike Domitrz argues that getting drunk is not consent to sex. Intoxication makes someone unable to consent, and blaming victims for drinking is just excusing assault.
As I'll hear this sometimes, well, they were drinking that much, they knew what they were getting into. I'm gonna just pause to address that. Are you implying that when you get drunk, you expect to be raped? In what country should that be a norm? In the United States of America, the freedom that I— and I'm not saying it's a good choice or a bad choice, the choice to get drunk does not mean the choice to be raped. At all. So when people use statements like that, we gotta call that stuff out. No, they went out to get drunk. That's what they did. And they might not have even gone out to get drunk. During the night, they ended up getting drunk. But getting drunk is a completely different choice than choosing to be sexually active. Oh, by the way, you also would've just proved a point here. If you said, well, they got that drunk, they knew what they were up to, then the other person, Jesse, had no ability to give consent. You just admitted they don't know what they're doing, that they've drank that much. You're actually making the case that this is a sexual assault.