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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)woman and if I had $10. for every time I had to fight like a hellcat, I'd be rich.
I was blessed with a father who taught me how to drink and when to drink and a mother who took crap from no one. And while you and your friends may have recognized that taking advantage of a passed out woman was rape, there were, and still are, plenty of men being raised under the old double standard.
I grew up in Brooklyn, NY and I well remember being at a party where the liquor flowed freely and one of the guys wasn't taking no for an answer from one of the girls. I came upon the struggle, couldn't get him to stop on my own and went running to get help from the other guys. They thought it was hysterically funny and said "Oh, it's only (girl's name), who cares?" I grabbed a lamp from a table and said, "I'm going to break this lamp over his head if you don't go in there to stop it" Two did just that, but I was never sure if it was for the sake of the girl or the lamp.
Needless to say I never partied with that crowd again, but I was always grateful for a lesson learned early in life.