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In reply to the discussion: The vast majority of men have never raped nor thought about raping anyone. [View all]Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)however I think that it's a lot harder to argue that a lot of men men might not take advantage of a woman who was intoxicated and in no position to resist or demur. Especially if they themselves had had a few drinks. You're using a narrow definition of "rape" here that means "premeditated forcible and violent sexual assault". Most rape is acquaintance rape; the classic example here is the drunken college-campus frat party with guys who won't take no for an answer, who ply a girl with booze to lower her resistance and take advantage of it, and you know, I would have to say based on what I've observed, what I've seen first-hand, that that sort of behaviour is a lot more commonplace than what you're probably calling "rape" here (statistics also back this up, one in four college-age women will be the victim of rape or attempted rape by an acquaintance).
And I sincerely doubt, as a man, that as many men here as you think are 'allies of women'; I was personally pretty disgusted to observe the number of people saying "oh well fucking a woman who's asleep isn't rape if there was consensual sex before that!" re the Julian Assange case, for instance.