Comments on: Understanding date rape drugs.

By: Cal

Cal — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 09:22:15 +0000

Hi Cheryl,

Very true.

Go here: https://www.henze-associates.com/blog/2014/09/23/cal/think-you-know-bro-culture-think-again/

This doesn't exist in a vacuum...

Cal

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 16:23:18 +0000

It's double victimization, first by the perp, second by the medical system that treats you like a drunk with a hangover. First is the assault, then the shaming by those who should be bending over backwards to protect the victim, and expose the criminal. I never thought a woman having drinks with friends was invitation to rape. And I sure as hell never thought the medical and police systems would implement policy to actually protect the perp!!!! How are women to trust? They are left second guessing everything, especially themselves.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 13:22:09 +0000

What a great system we have! (Not)):

By: Cal

Cal — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 10:13:34 +0000

Hi Kathy,

Sadly, they almost always do.

For all the rhetoric about not blaming the victim etc, as soon as any sort of substance is involved -- even a single drink -- the victim is almost always considered to be culpable, believed to have simply chosen to get wasted and assumed to have willingly ingested the date rape drug.

If you can make the above leap, then deciding that the victim is responsible for the rape is not much of a jump.

Cal

By: Kathy

Kathy — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 22:53:31 +0000

And, to add to the list:

Call the police.

And, pray the hospital or medical facility doesn't treat you like a drunk treating a hangover.

Insist on a urine test/bloodwork.