[Content warning: sexual assault]

For most of my friends, this will not be the first time you’ve read something like this. Today, the point I kept coming back to was the idea that the rapist was also drunk and therefore less or even not responsible for his actions. That excuse terrifies and disgusts me, because my (secondhand) understanding of being drunk is that it lowers your inhibitions. It causes you to think things are reasonable that you might not otherwise categorize as such, or even come up with new ideas that seem like catastrophes when sober.

It would not turn you into a werewolf.

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