An argument in favour of teetotalism

[the0lady]

 
According to an Ipsos Mori poll commissioned by the Home Office, a rape victim who has been drinking should be held responsible for her rape - or so think 11% of respondents. A further 25% think that she should be held "partially responsible".

So, ladies, don't drink. Because a full 36% of your fellow country-people - that's over a third -

Comments

[blearyboy]

Dude, what kind of meetings have you been going to recently?

[the0lady]

The usual kind, where I'm the only woman in a room full of men.

[ailbhe]

I'm kind of impressed he left the room alive.

[the0lady]

Well I'm bloody not. He got to behave like an asshole, and I'm the one left feeling bad about it. It's pathetic. I spent half the time thinking that I should say something, but just couldn't bring myself to. Urgh!

[ailbhe]

Social conditioning is impressive stuff.

That's probably one of those tautologies, actually.

(Yes, you should have said something, but the thing about that is that it's impossible to do so without sounding unprofessional. Killing them is easier.)

(I shouldn't think about this stuff with PMS.)

[the0lady]

How fucked up is it that it would be *me* sounding unprofessional, huh? And yet, that is exactly and in every respect the reality. Again: urgh!

[blearyboy]

Were they topless too?

[the0lady]

Now you're just trying to improve on the perfect absurdist equilibrium of my original vignette, you competitive sod.

See, see how men muscle women out of comedy??! SEE?!?1?

[blearyboy]

Hand on my heart, I really thought you were topless. I read your final paragraph three times to be certain. My brain needs a holiday in someone else's head, I think.

Kirsten Schaal (currently the world's most promising female comic) did a pretty funny piece on the Daily Show last night about the role of the First Lady. You should have a gander at it on comedycentral.com

[the0lady]

-- "Hand on my heart, I really thought you were topless."

That's the funniest thing I've read all week, even without being taken out of context.

Honestly, the thought of the look on your face as you sincerely try to puzzle out whether I go to work without any clothes on... Priceless.

[blearyboy]

I had imagined a whole mini-drama:

"Marina, you know you're not meeting the standard dress code for this type of meeting."

"But I'm wearing a tie!"

[viking_nitro]

strange because im the only man in meetings full of women.

so far in six months i havent worked with a single straight white man.

[the0lady]

Do they stare at your tits, then?