Is every unwise choice a drugging and raping?
I would like to comment on your article regarding the date rape drugs (“Drugs can facilitate date rape,” April 25, ODE). You see, I feel that I have been slipped these drugs many times.
Often I go out with friends and drink, dance and meet new people. And often, the next day, I can’t remember what happened to me the night before. Sometimes I even wake up in strange (very strange) places and can’t recall how I got there. I feel confusion and pain, and I retch until I feel I’ll die. After reading your article, I realized that I must be getting drugged almost every time I go out!
Seriously, I know it’s dangerous (and pretty damn insensitive) to tell someone who claims to have been victimized that, no, they haven’t. But it’s also dangerous to assume that, every time someone gets drunk and blacks out and does something they regret, they have been drugged and raped.
I feel really bad for Tara, who obviously went through a traumatic and painful event. However, I would feel equally bad for her so-called assailant if he were innocent of the charges against him.

Charles G. Haller II

senior


international studies/journalism