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[Red Celt]

I love it how people are actually going to donate money for PZ's legal case. He might get rich from this.

Now, if this dude really did rape that girl, this is really bad. If someone just called "rape" because they got drunk and had sex it is even worse - it takes away the validity of those who do cry rape.

Exactly. And that's why that whole scene fucks me right off. They throw the words "rape" around as if it can be applied to any situation against people they don't like. Meanwhile, on Planet Reality, people who actually have been raped (and suffered real consequences) have their horrifying ordeal trivialised by these arsewipes of humanity.

The only way that Shermer can be described as a rapist (based on the given testimonies, which at no point included forced sex) is if he'd pinned the women* to the ground, shoved a funnel in their mouth and got them drunk without their consent.

When we choose to drink, we choose to take the consequences of that action. If we choose not to stop drinking when in the company of someone we don't want to find ourselves in an uncompromising position with, we choose to take the consequences of that action.

Morning-after-the-night-before regrets (which is something that a lot of people (of both genders) have experienced) is NOT a reason to claim that a rape has occurred.

When both parties get drunk, either one of them could use that shitty logic to claim that they were raped. Naturally, to the FtB crowd, that claim only has validity if the person making that false accusation is female.



* And one bi-sexual man, according to a suicide note that PZ Myers reported (solely for the good of the person who supposedly wrote it, of course, and not even remotely so as to give weight to his claims about Shermer being a rapist).