To make my day even better, I just endured the shortest lecture I have ever heard about World War II. Apparently, the only thing that my professor could say about Hitler was that he tried to be an artist and that he wrote a book. Also, you could totally tell that he was evil because he was anti-communist. Really. *HEADDESK*
She said NOTHING about his whole "let's kill everyone who isn't German" plan beyond "He was racist". NO SHIT. I'm not even fucking kidding. She only spent half of a class on it. Add that to the fact that I read the 'advice' right before.... I'm ready to explode.
You know, this whole 'women shouldn't get drunk becuz hur hur they'll get RAPED' thing just...enrages me. Beyond. Belief. Even if--even if--a woman gets drunk, she is not to blame if some asshole decides to rape her. It's not her fault. You can't put it all on the female that SOMEONE ELSE consciously decided to violate her. It's not the victim's fault, it the rapist's fault. THEY chose to do it, THEY didn't take no for an answer, THEY committed a crime.
I found an excellent response to this article here. Of course, some of the responses are as backwards as Amy's, but I do apprieciate the number of men who point out that they've been alone with a drunk girl at a frat party and they've managed to not rape the woman.
The blame-the-victim thing is so infuriating. It's always focused on what the victim did or didn't do, not on what the rapist did. I just want to hit people who think like Amy does.
Amy, by the way, has not retracted her advice, or even admitted she was wrong. This is just.... ARRRGG. Maddening.
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Date: 2009-12-03 06:51 pm (UTC)To make my day even better, I just endured the shortest lecture I have ever heard about World War II. Apparently, the only thing that my professor could say about Hitler was that he tried to be an artist and that he wrote a book. Also, you could totally tell that he was evil because he was anti-communist. Really. *HEADDESK*
She said NOTHING about his whole "let's kill everyone who isn't German" plan beyond "He was racist". NO SHIT. I'm not even fucking kidding. She only spent half of a class on it. Add that to the fact that I read the 'advice' right before.... I'm ready to explode.
You know, this whole 'women shouldn't get drunk becuz hur hur they'll get RAPED' thing just...enrages me. Beyond. Belief. Even if--even if--a woman gets drunk, she is not to blame if some asshole decides to rape her. It's not her fault. You can't put it all on the female that SOMEONE ELSE consciously decided to violate her. It's not the victim's fault, it the rapist's fault. THEY chose to do it, THEY didn't take no for an answer, THEY committed a crime.
I found an excellent response to this article here. Of course, some of the responses are as backwards as Amy's, but I do apprieciate the number of men who point out that they've been alone with a drunk girl at a frat party and they've managed to not rape the woman.
The blame-the-victim thing is so infuriating. It's always focused on what the victim did or didn't do, not on what the rapist did. I just want to hit people who think like Amy does.
Amy, by the way, has not retracted her advice, or even admitted she was wrong. This is just.... ARRRGG. Maddening.