More Victim Blaming
Posted by Anna on June 18, 2007
Some words from Christchurch police central area commander Inspector Gary Knowles on the subject of exessive drinking amongst women:
“When women are drunk like this they have no control and are extremely vulnerable.
“They easily become victims of assault or rape and have no idea what has happened.
“How many times do we report stories of women waking up in strange places with only a vague recollection of what has happened the night before? They often have no idea if it was consensual or rape.”
Lets go right back to basics:
1) Women are not raped because they drink, they are raped because men rape them and because society permits it.
2) If a woman is so drunk that she can’t remember what happened in the morning, then she was in no state to give meaningful consent in the first place.
(Also, where’s the panic about men drinking excessively and attacking women? Or just, for that matter, drinking. Or is it only a problem for women, because it’s unladylike and somehow causes men, through no fault of their own, to attack them?)
georgina said
too right