I was really excited about the Smart Car, but 33 in town for such a small vehicle doesn't seem that great. I have a Honda Fit which cost me about $16/17 grand and I have been getting combined highway/city mileage of about 33 in the winter and about 39 in the summer. And it's got a crazy amount of space for a small car!!! I bought this to replace my Geo Metro which I had sadly wrecked, which was even better in terms of mileage (and I miss it so!!!). I'm glad I went with the Fit!

Rape is a terrible thing suffered by women throughout the world which western feminism has turned into a joke - I will have sympathy for the woman who wakes up from a drunken night and feels bad about the unintended sex she had the night before... up until she or anybody else says it's rape. Basically:

1) A woman is responsible for her actions no matter how much she drinks. If she is manipulated or convinced into sex when she's drunk because she's drunk, it isn't rape, even if she regrets it the next morning. Sex involves manipulation and convincing... that's the way it goes.

2) Men accused of rape in Western society today are, in fact, largely normal guys who are responsible for their own actions, just like the women. The environment of advocacy has created a guilty until proven innocent situation which may still not be reflected in the courts, but is reflected in every other step of the way.

I wish I didn't feel this way, but in my work capacity I've seen an enormous number of young women crying rape (or presumed rape) after an alcohol induced blackout. I feel sorry for them, but it's not rape. We take risks and have to deal with the consequences, and both young men and women need to realize and accept this.

When I read this and many other entries on this blog, I feel like you try harder and harder to maintain the image of the woman as repressed. Sexually speaking, women have much greater freedom to express themselves and working in a health clinic serving college students, see much more judgemental attitudes on their behavior coming from women than from men. Men have really no input on the sexual behavior or women, where women offer copious input on the sexual behavior of both women and men. This is entirely a female argument.

Furthermore, we have widely recognized a woman's right to rethink and judge her own sexual behavior and recast it as inappropriate behavior on the part of her partner as "sexual assault." While much of this recasted activity certainly never sees a courtroom, it does see disciplinary action at the workplace and in academic judicial reviews. The reverse, with men accusing women, practically never happens.

Women hold practically all the sexual power, in the bedroom, public discourse, the media and the courtroom. Please stop pretending to be repressed.

It wasn't rape. It wasn't what you wanted and wasn't your "fault," and you may have suffered for it, but applying the word "rape" is also not fair to the other person involved, who was likely also drunk and not able to take as much responsibility for his actions as the writer. Should he have been more considerate? Sure. Should he be made to suffer for this? No. Should he apologize? If he wishes to. Both individuals have their issues, but there's nothing you can say which will convince me that one of those is a crime committed by one party on the other.

What's the real take home point? People should not get drunk or use drugs if they don't want to risk regrettable outcomes. Period.

The big questions I have anymore with any "rape" case is "what does this mean?" Having seen many alleged sexual assault victims in a clinical situation, the stories are so tenuous as to whether or not there was ever lack of consent or whether the lack of consent showed up later with regret. Nevertheless, when it gets reported, it's always "rape." My vision of "rape" used to be a pretty vile crime, but when it's used to describe when a woman wakes up from a drunken night naked in bed with a guy she doesn't remember from the night before and then regrets it, the word loses it's meaning.

What's the story here? Don't know. Why would ESPN not want to report on it? Because it murky, unclear and probably feels more like a slander case to many than an assault case. Men have begun to see "rape" as just another way that women have completely taken over the dialog on the relationship between men and women and men's rights have been not only restricted, but drowned out with sanctimonious cries of "rape" whenever a woman rethinks a sexual encounter or does something she regrets. A man's future is on the line whenever this happens, and it happens a lot.

Terrible rapes occur, but who really knows anymore? Feminists have killed the word and concept with men. Want it back? Stop accusing all men of being rapists.