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Wednesday, August 29, 2007 12:00 AM

Casual hookups cause "gray rape"?

Cosmopolitan reports on a "confusing form of sexual assault" caused in part by sexually forward women.

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  • Wednesday, August 29, 2007 05:43 PM

    rape is only rape if you were dressed like a pilgrim and totally sober

    yeah...i don't get it either. if a guy had one too many and drifted in and out of awareness and mumbled "no" a couple times while another man stuck it in him, it'd be rape, right? even if they'd hung out all night drinking and playing video games in their underpants. even if...well, even if anything. it would be rape. why there's some sort of gray area when one is a woman is sort of confounding.

    anyway the whole article is ridiculous. rape existed even in the eisenhower era when ladies wore white gloves and were the gatekeepers of chastity. people like the dumbass who wrote the article still found ways to blame the women though, just like they do today.

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