There's a difference between "intoxicated" and "incapacitated" or "too intoxicated to give consent," which the legislation makes very clear. It doesn't mean that anyone who has drunk sex is either a rapist or a victim; it just means that "S/he was so drunk! How was I supposed to know s/he wasn't into it?" is no longer… Read more
Callie Beusman
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Not necessarily. There's a difference between being drunk enough to let loose and have fun (drunk sex is great), and being incapacitated by alcohol. Tipsy, giggly drunk is one thing, slurring and falling down is another. If you (and I mean you in the general sense) can't figure that one out, you're not mature enough… Read more
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I agree that something needs to be done but I still have misgivings. Given that consent cannot be given in the legal context when someone is intoxicated, under this new law, a man could be charged with felony rape for having sex with his girlfriend even though she wanted to have sex. Ditto for the woman if her… Read more
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Hell, I'd be happy with just comprehensive sex education instead of a lot of this abstinence-based "education." Read more
It's a start. Now if we could just get comprehensive sex education to INCLUDE CONSENT, I'd be a much happier Pipper... a pepper Pipper? Read more
People also clearly go out of their way to troll Jez readers BECAUSE we are all presumed to be women. There is always an influx of that shit after, say the shooting at Santa Barbara, where we had posters using burner names of "Elliot Rodger" here saying totally fucked up things to posters. I don't see that happening… Read more
I am not speaking about myself; I don't feel particularly upset by typed, anonymous comments. The fact remains that trolls do target female writers, often personally, and that female writers on the Internet are regularly threatened, harassed and attacked on a personal level in a way men are not. In the past year… Read more
Yes. Yes, yes, yes. Read more
I am going to express my support for the people of Jezebel by putting this undeniably adorable image here in the comments. Read more
It's images of violence against women that are being posted in response to articles written by and/or about women. Men are not targeted in this way. It's not general trolling, it's all about being abusive to women anonymously. Read more
To me, it seems this is really indicative of the way in which it's so much harder to exist as a woman on the Internet — women have to deal with so much shit, and so much of the stuff done to ~make the 'net free for everyone~ doesn't take that fact into account at all. There was an op-ed in the Guardian about that this… Read more
Ugh. NOOO with the micr/teacup pigs. People don't understand - yeah, sure they're cute and tiny as piglets, but "micro" pigs grow to be 40-50 pounds on average, and many get to be over 100 pounds. Nothing "micro" about that. Read more
I'm no fan of James Blunt but his Twitter is all kinds of hilarious. Okay, one kind of hilarious — the crass kind. https://twitter.com/JamesBlunt Read more
I hope it doesn't get ditched at an airport like Bieber's monkey. Read more