Microsoft Intern’s Rape Claim Highlights Struggle to Combat Sex Discrimination

Re:Microsoft Intern’s Rape Claim Highlights Struggle to Comb... by rosser on Saturday December 16, 2017 @06:45PM (#15942975)

I was too, and I've done decades of work on it — using more and stranger modalities than you'd believe. I understand the subtleties. That's a very large part of why I'm so ardent about the issue — because most people haven't, and don't, and swing mile-wide (and often self-serving) generalities around something where the subtleties are measured in microns.

I'm also not talking about "bright line consent". I'm talking about drawing a flashing-neon line on the near side of using intoxication to excuse shitty behavior. It never excuses anything. E.g., you get behind the wheel, over the limit, that is 100% on you, no matter what.

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Re:Microsoft Intern’s Rape Claim Highlights Struggle to Comb... by DoreenMichele on Saturday December 16, 2017 @06:50PM (#15942997)

We are on the same page. I don't think intoxication is an excuse.

I advocate that women should not put themselves in certain situations and I get accused of victim blaming for trying to empower women to live safely.

But I did years of therapy. I generally don't drink. Women who do drink and/or have not sorted their childhood baggage get pretty enraged when I suggest not putting themselves in certain situations.

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