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.
I think Americans are more prissy and puritanical about alcohol (and other stuff) than Britons. Getting pissed – whether you’re a student or not – is fun. It doesn’t give men an licence to rape and it doesn’t turn rape into non-rape.
You talk about the aggressor, that is the rapist being ultimately at fault. To that extent, you are far more compassionate to college girls than Mac Donald and many of her supporters. For these people, if the victim is drunk, or has behaved in certain ways, there is no rape. Mac Donald has no sympathy whatsoever for victims who don’t conform to the Stepford-wifey-good-girl thing. If they are raped it’s their fault – worse, their account is negated and they are scheming liars.
Here’s a novel idea- why don’t men watch what they drink so they don’t rape? Or why aren’t “rape industrialists” telling them to? Why isn’t Mac Donald telling them to?
Because boys will be boys, that’s why. And Mac Donald ingratiates herself with men who are happy with this double standard.
