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Why do feminists consider sound advice like "don't get too drunk, it makes you vulnerable to sexual assault" a form of victim blaming?

Update:

Both physical and sexual assaults are far more likely to occur when the victim is drunk, and I strongly urge any parent of young adults of either gender to pass on this important message because, unlike feminists, I put people over ideology.

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  • 5 years ago

    Because they are stupid. They have a point in that a woman should not have to worry about that, but that will never happen. There will always be people out there who are not wired right and people (men, women, white, black, whatever) need to learn the concept of "Don't allow yourself to be a victim" in the first place.

    Look at it this way - No one is blaming the victim of a sexual assaulted while being passed out drunk. But they could have prevented them self from being a victim by not drinking as much.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    "Do not get too drunk" is good advice for everyone actually. Alcohol is a poison and can actually kill you.

    Being drunk is no good excuse to be raped, though. The rapist is always at fault. Pretending otherwise is really about saying rape is OK if she is drunk - drunk women deserve to be abused - is that what you want to say? It's usually said by feminist haters - men who do not want rights for women - horrible sexist men to give a pass to male criminals who attack females and it is actually really about promoting rape by blaming victims instead of the criminal who committed the assault - pushing the victim to hide and not report the crime - thus promoting rape with impunity - letting all men rape all drunk women - is that the world we should be living in?

    It's making the victims's life harder after the crime and more horrible than it already is - it's really like kicking someone when they are down really hard and right in the kidneys to make as much pain as possible - to really really hurt the victim for merely being female and a victim - it's nasty and vile and sadistic. Don't pretend that it is really not to hurt the victim and give a pass to the rapist - that is what it really is - this is unethical.

  • 5 years ago

    You are indulging in an unjust generalisation. Who exactly considers such advice to be 'victim blaming'? Feminists are as reasonable or unreasonable as everyone else and don't deserve to be stereotyped. Any reasonable person would agree that (i) such advice is sound, and (ii) the fact that a woman is drunk does not give a man an excuse for sexually assaulting her.

  • 5 years ago

    Because it is a form of victim blaming. If some one sexually assults someone else, they have committed a crime regardless of how drunk or not the other person is.

    Although it may be sound advice, phrases like this are almost invariably used to insinuate that it is the victims own fault they were assaulted. In fact, even mentioning ;femminism is a complete non-sequitur. If you really felt it was sound advice and did NOT have a tacit agenda to push, you would not need to mention femminism at ALL.

    Note: I am male and not a femminist and even I can see this. You are talking, or about to talk, nonsense.

    Oh look I was right, you opened your mouth and wrote a nonsense update...

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  • Jens
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    *Some/many* do this because they confuse idealism with pragmatism.

    The ideal is that no-one should ever fall victim to a crime.

    Pragmatism however dictates that certain behaviour increases the risk to fall victim of a crime. By saying so one does not blame the victim. The criminal is 100% responsible. One only points out that one can influence the likelyhood to fall victim to a crime, and that one should make a conscious decision about what risk level one finds acceptable and adjust one's actions accordingly.

    A tourist should not walk through a slum in Mexico City and flash a Rolex. Doing so increases the risk to be mugged or worse.

    A young woman should not go to a frat party alone and binge drink there. That definitely increases the likelyhood to be abused while passed out. Saying so does not blame the victim. It just states that different actions come with different risks.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    I'm quite sure most feminists don't consider that a form of victim blaming.

    The ones that do are clearly trying to over-stretch.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    They live in an idealistic and naive world where we can just tell criminals to stop or teach them and it will work. As if this is a problem that can be taught away and every human has a good core. The best advice is watch your @ss because a lot of people will have no problem using your @ss for their own satisfaction regardless of whether or not you want it. People are taught and told every day that this and that are wrong but they do not care. They know, they are not idiots, they simply do not care. If you want to believe in god and the devil you can consider these people the devil broken up into many individuals. They are evil and you cannot talk them out of hurting you.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    5 years ago

    Just like any reasonable person would avoid walking around a known dangerous neighborhood at night not because they themselves are at fault but to be safe. Some people just don't get this.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    It is an advice similar to myself telling my bros to not go outside at late night because crime is high. They never told me something like, "don't tell me not to go out, tell them not to rob/stab people".

    Women don't have logic, they operate in emotional realm. Making them understand is impossible unless they share an emotional bond with you. Show her love before showing her logic, that'll work like a magic, leave rest of the women on their fate (after trying once or twice).

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    Because they are stupid and biased and brainwashed by feminist dogma.

    Women getting drunk make MEN more vulnerable to sexual assault, I am a karaoke DJ and I get sexually assaulted by drunken women all the time.

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