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In reply to the discussion: Dear DU Woman--stop throwing back shots of Rum and you won't get raped.... [View all]The2ndWheel
(7,947 posts)60. Don't store owners take some precautions?
Insurance, cameras, a gun, locks, some other additional security? They don't leave all sorts of money on the counter and leave the store unattended.
What is wrong with practical advice? People run the risk of anything possibly happening at any time, just by living normal, boring life, let alone if they put themselves in potentially dangerous situations. What the world should be is a great ideal, and something to work toward, whether you have to slowly chip away, or are able to crack a whole side of a mountain down all at once. What the world is, is a different story.
If you're going to go out into the world, don't get fall down stupidly drunk, whoever you are, male or female, young or old.
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Dear DU Woman--stop throwing back shots of Rum and you won't get raped.... [View all]
trumad
Oct 2013
OP
If that was indeed the point, one wonders why it was addressed to females only...
LanternWaste
Oct 2013
#37
every dad should give his daughter similar advice, comfort her if she is a victim, and bury the perp
yurbud
Oct 2013
#14
No. It implies that if a woman gets drunk it greatly increases the possibility that she'll be raped
Zorra
Oct 2013
#18
I did.... and the difference between you and me is that I have a college-aged daughter
scheming daemons
Oct 2013
#40
Obviously, the major relevant difference between you and me in assessing this subject is that
Zorra
Oct 2013
#48
there should be two separate discussions: how to keep men from raping and how to keep women away
yurbud
Oct 2013
#13
Has anyone ever written an editorial advising store-owners not to tempt shoplifters?
WinkyDink
Oct 2013
#21
Is it OK to suggest that it is never a good idea for anyone to get so drunk that when they wake up,
Nye Bevan
Oct 2013
#54
I think "warning" is ok. But you can't then BLAME someone for not "listening to warnings".
DireStrike
Oct 2013
#57