I Am Cranky!
I've spent the day alternately decluttering the apartment and dealing with deliberately obtuse commenters in the comments section to this post at Feministe. While decluttering is good in the long-run (or even tomorrow), my back hurts now!
As for the commenters -- Aargh! We were discussing rape laws which state that an intoxicated person is unable to consent to sex. Now, please note that these laws only apply when a person presses charges. Not under any other circumstances. Needless to say, some commenters (I believe all of them are men, although I'm unsure about one of them) started stringing together fake scenarios. "OMG, you're saying that all sex while drunk is rape!" "How can you be comfortable passing a law that makes it illegal for you to have sex while drunk!" "The cops will start rounding up anyone whose had sex while drunk!" Dealing with that kind of idiocy makes me cranky, dammit! Sure, these kinds of laws already exist. Sure, no state has started rounding up people who had sex while drunk. Sure, none of them state that it's illegal to have sex while drunk. Sure, no one ever said that all drunken sex was rape. Sadly, none of that impinges on the consciousness of those raising these fake scenarios.
I'm cranky, I tell you!