RAPE VICTIM: Stop Watering Down Rape.
Chad Felix Greene says he was raped a decade ago after he agreed to meet a man at a hotel room expecting to then go to dinner and a movie. He says the man overpowered him and raped him, and that the rape was calculated.
Greene, as a survivor of rape, disagrees with the current culture that equates drunken hookups to what happened to him. He further disagrees with current feminist doctrine that drunken women cannot consent to sex, but drunken men can.
“Furthermore, asserting women alone cannot consent while intoxicated greatly undermines the concept of female sexual independence,” Greene wrote. “We treat women like children when we demand they can choose to intoxicate themselves but cannot choose any action afterwards when it comes to sexuality. Men cannot be expected to hold both authority roles while equally intoxicated.”
Greene insists that no one is pro-rape, but that feminists now label as an “apologist” for rape anyone who suggests a regretted drunken hookup is anything but rape.
He also echoes what many due-process advocates have been saying, that broadening the definition of rape and suggesting that women who have been drinking cannot consent actually hurts female sexual liberation. Many schools have policies now that an accuser (who is usually a woman) can be too drunk to consent to sex but the accused (almost always a man) is responsible for his actions even if drunk.
The analogy of drunk driving is often used, but only against the accused. A person who gets behind the wheel of a car while drunk is not excused of their actions.
Thus reducing women to the status of objects. A car is an object: It does not act, it is acted upon.