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Nobody has disputed that "No means no", and a girl has a right to say no. Why is this even being mentioned?

What is at dispute is how can a girl that was "poured out of a van" and too drunk to get up and walk home (from all accounts) able to even remember if she said no or not?

And why is the entire population made to suffer for her drunken indiscretions, regardless of her claims? One girl is now ruining the livelihoods of an entire district (vendors, hotels, restaurants, tourist services, etc.) without their consent, diba?

No one should be raped, but the cost of pursuing this very weak case is excessive to the poor peoples of the area. Let us learn to keep our daughters home or at least teach them not to get in a van with many strangers (don't we teach this already?).

You can argue ad nauseum that she had a right to say no, but she also had a right not to go to a bar alone, not to drink beyond capacity, and not to get in a van with strange men. We might also wonder why her two brothers are dropping her at a bar, alone, in the first place?


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