Robby Soave says nothing wrong here. But I would add that it's not just FEMALE alcohol consumption that is at the centre of campus sexual assault, it's also MALE alcohol consumption. If men are too drunk to obtain or recognise consent, you're going to get just the sort of he said-she said incidents that are the problem here. Anything that reduce high-risk alcohol use by college students will help prevent these sort of situations. But if you talk only about FEMALE alcohol use, you're missing half the picture and opening yourself up to the Salon type criticism.
"I’m a huge fan of consensual sex. I want more of the sex that college students have to be clearly consensual. Educating men on what consent means and why it matters is really important. Reminding women to guard their drinks and to be mindful of how drunk they are getting is really important. And it is just as important to remind young men that excessive alcohol use means that even if they understand the need to obtain consent, they will be less able to ask for it clearly or determine if it has clearly been given.
If we want to avoid the charge of victim blaming by bringing up the alcohol-sexual assault nexus, one way to do that is to insist that avoiding excessive alcohol use as a way to prevent sexual assault is not just women’s responsibility but men’s as well."
Good point @honeybee,
Where I'm from, society sees it as acceptable for young men–especially those in universities to drink as much as they can hold and then some,
while women who drink are frowned upon and automatically termed loose and down for sex by implication. It's not cool, a girl can't enjoy a drink or drinks without some drunk rando who is clearly incapable of obtaining consent, looking for a quick one.
The double standard is quite glaring.
I concur that females and males in colleges–and out of it,should be conscious of how much alcohol they take because it can blur their reasoning and defeat consent.
For what it's worth, alcohol is banned altogether on campus in my school, so there are no wild parties here. It's pretty quiet bordering on boring. The only problem arises when they take the parties outside school. It becomes every man for himself.
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