Drinking and being alone with a man you don’t know is – unless you are in a Muslim or other backward, primitive world – normal for college age girls. And it is normal for college age men, most of whom are not rapists.
Most student – and post student – social life is ruled out if you rule out those things.
Ms. Jackson, you were answering a comment from Rob Crawford, that “[c]ollege-aged women would be well-advised to not get drunk and get alone with men they do not know.” Note the word he used – “drunk.” Most people interpret that word as meaning that the person has imbibed to such an extent that their functioning is severely impaired. Thus the origin of the terms, “blind drunk” and “falling down drunk.”
Most social life continues quite well in the absence of drunkenness, even in college. Your assertion otherwise indicates that you have a very distorted view of not only college students, but society as a whole. Alcohol is a part of our culture that most people use responsibly. Post-student social life would not be shut down by the absence of drunkenness. You must move in some strange, disfunctional social circles if you believe otherwise.
But of course, you don’t. You know very well that society would not collapse in the absence of drunkenness – you just wanted to ridicule someone who didn’t agree with you.
It would be a demented person, indeed, who believed that voluntarily incapacitating oneself is a brilliant idea. You’d advise against people (male or female, let’s not be sexist here) willingly getting dead drunk in public, wouldn’t you? Just as a general principle? If you answer in the affirmative, then why do you so aggressively argue against the concept that it isn’t the brightest idea for college age females to get drunk in the presence of college-age men?
That the aggressor is ultimately at fault for any assault, robbery, rape or murder isn’t the point – the point is that avoiding the crime is preferable to seeing the criminal punished, especially if the crime is murder, and one is not around to see justice done.
