Last week, academics concluded that women who claim they've been drugged and raped were usually just drunk
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Could it be that women instinctively feel that if they admit to themselves how much they had drunk they would also be admitting they were somehow to blame for putting themselves at risk?
Believing your drink was spiked transfers the blame to a malevolent, external force, something which women have no control over. It shifts responsibility.
Alcohol expert Robin Touquet, Professor of Emergency Medicine at Imperial College, London, points out: 'Women are demonising so- called drink spiking rather than facing up to the fact that drinking too much alcohol can put them in a highly dangerous situation.
I am certain that massive amounts of alcohol consumption contributes to abortions in this country.
If you're a woman who drinks large amounts of alcohol around strange men looking to score, you're placing yourself in danger. That is the reality.
Unfortunately, people have a strange way of denying reality.
And lest someone says I am "blaming the victim", note that people contribute to their own victimhood without being responsible for the act of violence against them. Like if you show up at a white supremacist meeting and denounce racism, they'll beat you senseless. Anyone can see that coming.
You are responsible for the foreseeable consequences of your actions. Doing something stupid under the influence of alcohol is one of them. That's obvious. So don't get drunk.
