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Comment author: OrphanWilde 15 April 2013 02:41:59PM 4 points [-]

I've encountered people who want drunkenness to be non-consent who explicitly reject the reasoning in your second example; they want any reduced capacity to make decisions to render consent invalid. (And I've seen some very convoluted logic about passive versus aggressive sexual behavior justifying why it's still rape when the man has also been drinking from a couple of them.)

(The inability to strawman feminism is really bizarre. It's possible to strawman individual feminists, but for the ideology as a whole, no matter how bizarre a position you can think up, there's somebody that actually holds that belief, and more insists it is proper feminist thought, and who probably also insists that anybody who doesn't agree isn't a proper feminist. And the craziest also tend to be the loudest; Jezebel, for instance.)

Comment author: [deleted] 20 April 2013 06:35:56PM 0 points [-]

any reduced capacity to make decisions

That sounds like a way too broad category to be useful. Most of the time there will be something or another that negatively affects my mental faculties.