Gender neutral posters about consent

MrKocha · 2013-12-03T06:41:34+00:00

I haven't fully made up my mind about alcohol. On one hand, the obvious and most responsible solution is to not get drunk. The second most obvious is to not get drunk around strangers, or people you don't trust and make clear ground rules with them.

On the other hand, let's say if I told a close friend, "ok, I'm going to stay home and get drunk today. I'm going to put my car keys in a lockbox. Don't allow me to do anything stupid, and above all else, don't let me drive!"

And then the friend waited until I was extremely inebriated and told me, "there's an emergency! Your mother is dying in a hospital! We really need to get you to the hospital."

Gives me my keys, gestures me down into my vehicle and by this point I'm almost blacked out, having barely any idea what is even going on? Vague ideas of emergencies and dying parents floating around in my completely inebriated head.

I can see how you can take advantage of someone in an inebriated state, even if they openly made precautions.

But running around in public completely drunk and clueless to the world? No precautions. No nothing? Just.... "I'm gonna get extremely drunk, so nobody else get extremely drunk and mutually do stuff we might regret."

I don't fully buy that, no. Blaming equally drunken strangers, for having equally drunken stranger behavior, while placing full responsibility on one of them seems a bit strange and unfair. Doesn't seem like a black and white issue, more like a gray and inebriated one.

exo762 · 2013-12-04T17:26:36+00:00

"Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power." B.F.

Title	Gender neutral posters about consent
Author	Frankly_No
Upvotes	26
Comments	2
Date	December 2, 2013 10:58 PM UTC (12 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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