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[mercuryblues]

66. Yes

sensible measures that every women are already aware of, yet somehow rape still exists. It also has the backlash of implying that if a person does go to a party and drinks that they are also at fault for being raped.

It also leads to, she didn't deserve to get raped, but she was drinking. It enables the offender to say well she was drunk and doesn't remember.

Serena Williams:

We watch the news for a while, and the infamous Steubenville rape case flashes on the TV—two high school football players raped a 16-year-old, while other students watched and texted details of the crime. Serena just shakes her head. "Do you think it was fair, what they got? They did something stupid, but I don't know. I'm not blaming the girl, but if you're a 16-year-old and you're drunk like that, your parents should teach you—don't take drinks from other people. She's 16, why was she that drunk where she doesn't remember? It could have been much worse. She's lucky. Obviously I don't know, maybe she wasn't a virgin, but she shouldn't have put herself in that position, unless they slipped her something, then that's different."

right here on DU a poster wrote this about the Stubenville case:

I am blaming her for getting drunk. (to be fair the poster who said that also blamed the offenders drinking for the raping)

On fox news

A defense attorney named Joseph DiBenedetto appeared on Fox News yesterday and essentially blamed the two girls, claiming they were virtually asking for it when they joined the two older boys and let them ply them with alcohol.

Clearly the message needs to be heard that a person's drinking is not an invitation to be raped.