home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wupost!darwin.sura.net!spool.mu.edu!agate!remarque.berkeley.edu!muffy
- From: rberlin@birdland.Eng.Sun.COM (Rich Berlin)
- Newsgroups: soc.feminism
- Subject: Re: Camille Paglia is GOD! was Re: camille paglia
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 16:09:48 GMT
- Organization: SunPics -- A Sun Microsystems Business
- Lines: 53
- Sender: muffy@mica.berkeley.edu (Muffy Barkocy)
- Approved: muffy@mica.berkeley.edu
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <lgmitsINN1e1@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- References: <1dv7hnINNa6@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Nov15.192856.7938@tamsun.tamu.edu>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: remarque.berkeley.edu
- Originator: muffy@remarque.berkeley.edu
-
- In article <1992Nov15.192856.7938@tamsun.tamu.edu> sharring@cs.tamu.EDU (Steven L Harrington) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov14.083248.27164@leland.Stanford.EDU> farthing@leland.Stanford.EDU (ljf) writes:
- >>Exactly. And yet you seem to think that it isn't rape if a woman is
- >>"stupid" enough to get drunk and can't defend herself. Maybe she
- >>should wear a tag saying, "I don't consent to any sex." Would that
- >>suffice if she were too drunk to say yes or no?
- >
- >Am I correct in inferring from this that you believe anytime a man and
- >woman engage in sex when the woman is drunk that it is rape? I'll buy
- >into that if the woman is passed out and cannot offer consent, but
- >this is absurd beyond that situation. It would seem that you suggest
- >that if a woman consents to sex with a man when she is impaired by the
- >influence of alcohol that this makes the man a rapist. Would you say
- >the same thing with the sexes reversed? If so, I've been raped in the
- >past (by this definition) - what's the statute of limitations, perhaps
- >I'll prosecute...
-
-
- I'm sympathetic to both of these positions; there has to be some
- middle ground here. Where is common sense in all this? Even *I* know
- better than to get drunk when I can't trust other (possibly drunk)
- individuals to look after my welfare. I *have* gotten drunk in a
- situation where I knew this was part of a woman's plan to seduce me
- and I don't feel that I was raped simply because I was drunk when sex
- occurred. I felt that I had given my consent hours earlier; I agreed
- to a quiet dinner alone with her at her house, I knew she was as
- attracted to me as I was to her, and the time felt about right.
-
- But that's very different from going to a party and getting smashed,
- NO MATTER WHICH END OF THINGS YOU'RE ON. You shouldn't be doing it if
- you're a potential rape victim and you shouldn't be doing it if you're
- a potential rapist, either. Nobody has a "perfect right" to be drunk
- with impunity; you are *voluntarily* impairing your own judgment and
- your own capacity for self-protection. Now, I don't for a moment
- believe that it's any less of a crime to rape someone who is in a
- drunken stupor--frankly, even if s/he *is* a willing partner, I think
- that sex with an unconcious or barely-concious partner is just short
- of necrophilia--but I *do* think it's stupid for anyone to drink
- irresponsibly when the situation is not totally secure.
-
- -- Rich
- --
- ===============================================================================
- Richard.Berlin@Eng.Sun.COM | The significant problems we face cannot be
- | solved at the same level of thinking we were
- | at when we created them. -- Albert Einstein
-
-
- --
- Post articles to soc.feminism, or send email to feminism@ncar.ucar.edu.
- Questions and comments should be sent to feminism-request@ncar.ucar.edu. This
- newsgroup is moderated by several people, so please use the mail aliases. Your
- article should be posted within several days. Rejections notified by email.
-