From Instapundit.com, in a story on a lawsuit by an expelled student, the first time I’ve read this openly stated:
Duke’s dean of students, Sue Wasiolek, was asked whether she would characterize a situation in which two students “got drunk to the point of incapacity, and then had sex” as their having raped each other. No, she said. Rather, “Assuming it is a male and female, it is the responsibility in the case of the male to gain consent before proceeding with sex.”
In other words, claims that there’s a double standard that makes men, but not women, legally culpable for drunken sex, are not just speculation.
And you know what else occurs to me? The Jane Doe in the linked story suffered a great deal of distress upon discovering she had had sex while so drunk that she didn’t remember it the next day. But it seems that, in the same way as we’re lawsuit-happy as a culture, it became necessary to see this not just as an unfortunate chain of events, something she could learn from, but instead to find a wrong-doer. Because she has been classified as a “victim” there necessarily has to be a “victimizer.”
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