Kasich: Don't drink alcohol if you don't want to get raped

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the idea that lots of people in this thread have of men is really quite concerning; the idea that women need to lock themselves away because every man turns into a potential rapist once he's had a pint of mild is frankly a baffling one. 

I'm from a country where the drinking age is 18 and where it is expected that most people will probably regularly drink from then.  The first two years I was in uni I was pretty much a a party or in some pub or dodgy club every week (bar if easy hand-ins or exams got in the way, I wasn't that bad a student) and neither my friends nor I ever put themselves in that position: mostly because we all knew that making sure that the person that you're doing things with is OK with that before you start and while you're doing it is the most sensible thing to do.  The best way of tackling things like that isn't by locking up your daughters or banning alcohol (lol if you think that will solve anything, all that would do is make the people that traffic it very rich while you criminalise folk who like a pint after work or other low-intake drinkers); its by actually educating young people about consent and what it exactly means; may it be sex-ed in schools, or by information campaigns in unis or whatever.