Going back to the second feminist revolution of the 90’s, we men have been bombarded with a nonstop barrage of hysteria about rape, “date rape” in particular. According to the mean-mouthed commissars of the false rape industry, there’s purportedly an epidemic of men spiking womens’ drinks with roofies and dragging the newly helpless damsels off to have their way with them. When I was in college, girls were admonished to guard their drinks as zealously as if they were protecting a vault of treasure, and the resultant panic fed into the myths about the prevalence of campus rape. I always wondered why, if date rape of this variety was so common, why the girls concerned about it simply didn’t avoid the sorts of venues where it would likely happen, but that was before I figured out that feminism is all about allowing women to do whatever they want, damned be the consequences.
Now, via Robin Hanson at Overcoming Bias, we’ve learned that the plague of floozies being drugged with flunitrazepam is a big load of hooey:
A study of more than 200 students revealed many wrongly blamed the effects of a “bad night out” on date-rape drugs, when they had just drunk excessively.
Many are in “active denial” that drinking large amounts of alcohol can leave them “incoherent and incapacitated”, the Kent University researchers concluded.
Young women’s fears about date-rape drugs are so ingrained that students mistakenly think it is a more important factor in sexual assault than being drunk, taking drugs or walking alone at night.
But despite popular beliefs, police have found no evidence that rape victims are commonly drugged with such substances, the researchers said.
So why are so many women falsely claiming to be roofied? You’ve got ninety-nine guesses, and the first ninety-eight don’t count:
Dr Adam Burgess from the university’s School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, said: “Young women appear to be displacing their anxieties about the consequences of consuming what is in the bottle on to rumours of what could be put there by someone else.
“The reason why fear of drink-spiking has become widespread seems to be a mix of it being more convenient to guard against than the effects of alcohol itself and the fact that such stories are exotic – like a more adult version of ’stranger danger’.”
Women seeking to avoid responsibility for their actions. But hey, what else is new?
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Ferdinand Bardamu knows BS when he sees it. He blogs at the newer, sleeker, sexier In Mala Fide. You can follow him on Twitter here.
