@ buck and London of course no means no whether of not either party is drunk
However there are people pushing the idea that the moment a woman imbibes even a single drink the she is no longer in fit state to consent. Now she could buy all the drinks herself, she could buy you drinks till your fall over drunk, she could hail the taxi for you both and then rip your clothes off before riding you like a bucking broncho.. But come morning she could sober up and say you raped her because she couldn't consent due to alcohol
Now how far thru the courts it gets is another question but there is a definite movement working towards that end
Bingo.
And by that logic, if a woman chooses to consume a single serving of alcohol, she has
knowingly circumvented her own sound judgment, and has intentionally surrendered (temporarily) her ability to make responsible decisions. In other words: she has
knowingly and intentionally rendered herself temporarily incompetent.
Why would
anyone do that to themselves, in any environment containing reasonably assumed threats from potential predators?
Perhaps it was not the single drink, but rather that she was already naturally incapable of sound judgment?
Can of worms? Slippery slope?
...and yet, people are given massive penalties for choosing to drive drunk,
after becoming impaired. If "impaired judgment" is sufficient grounds to retroactively alter the definition of consensual sex to "rape," then it's also grounds to claim a drunk driver is NOT responsible for any decision s/he made
during intoxication, which can and should include any decision to drive. All you'd have to do is say: prior to drinking, i had no intention to drive. After i consumed alcohol, the desire to drive "raped me," because i was not able to consent.
I'm a firm believer in the notion that "anything you do while impaired, is still your responsibility, as long as
you chose to become impaired." If someone doses you without your knowledge, that's a completely different beast. If you choose to impair yourself, you are also responsible for your impaired actions, even if they result in Terminal Shame, or worse.
How can we call women "equal," if ONE DRINK makes them legally cognitively incompetent? (i've seen it go both ways: some women are indeed so easily affected, while others seem to handle their altered states like champs)
And further... why is something SO DANGEROUS still allowed? How can we allow people to access something that only requires a few ounces to render someone mentally unfit to consent to anything?
WTF
