In a rape trial yesterday, the judge told the jury that drunken consent was still consent. The fact that the woman could not remember giving consent proved fatal to the prosecution case. This was a Crown Court case and so provides precedent.
Based on that, I think it's about time that we started putting stickers on women, based on how much they've had to drink. The stickers will say whether it's okay to fuck her or not, on the basis that if she's too pissed there's no way she'll ever be able to prove anything against the man.
A lousy decison by the judge. A man by the way (natch).
PS The woman was a student being escorted home to a hall of residence by a security guard. He had sex with her on the floor of a corridor at a time when she was too drunk to remember what was going on. Apparently it was actually steamy, exciting, spontaneous sex with a stranger. That'll be what it was then.
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