Gisèle Pelicot: Judge rules public can view French mass rape trial video evidence

submitted a month ago by misk@sopuli.xyz

www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce81qj2j3vlo

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cabbage a month ago

A problem is also the idea of "doing it" as the key phrase here.

What is "it" exactly? Is "it" drugging women and raping them? That might even be fewer than 1/200. I sure as hell hope it is. In either case it's surely too many - enough that you should never fucking leave your drink unattended.

Is "it" being a bit lax on consent? She's drunk, you're drunk, you're in bed together, she's so drunk it's not really clear what she wants. You made it this far, surely that's consent enough? In this category of rape, I think there's a whole lot more than one in two hundred.

Your partner says she doesn't feel like it, but you'll go for it anyway - it's not like she's fighting to resist you either? Yeah, a whole lot more than one in two hundred.

Groping someone in a club when drunk? Hell, we've all seen it happen from people we genuinely thought knew better.

I like to believe that the amount of men who would, say, drug and rape someone, is in a very tiny majority. But as for men willing to make arguments about "blurred lines" where there is none, I'm sadly less optimistic.