I had to carry my friend home from the bar one night last year. She was on her second drink and was suddenly incapacitated. Pure coincidence that there was a guy pestering us most of the night when our partners were otherwise distracted.

I'm so glad nothing happened to your friend.

Yeah, I remember when my old roommate told me about how she had been roofied the night before. She was not a lightweight by any means and after her first drink she started feeling drunk. Thankfully, we lived within walking distance of the bar and her friends were there. She said she grabbed one friend's arm, said something is really wrong, and they practically carried her home.

What’s really scary is that, at least at the time, it was a really popular Friday/weekend bar that everyone went to and it wasn’t the first story I heard about that place.

I know someone who was spiked too... and god knows how many who may have thought the spiking was just the impact of alcohol. It's really scary

Alcohol is the most commonly used date rape drug, so I do wonder if spiking is partly due to wanting the power of causing the vulnerability rather than the victim drinking themselves

Sorry, what is roofing? I've not heard of that word before.

because she went to sleep it off in her car.

So some one slipped her a sedative, saw her leave and get in her car? Luckily she decided to sleep it off first and didn't drove home.

Fascism is coming for all of us in time, women and minorities will be first, however :(.

Yeah I just don't have a resting smile and I resent being expected to fake one.

Rbf is real.

So is resting homicidal axe murderer face. That's what Dad had. 🤣

Be careful with this. In the US, the right to self defense is not universal. It's entirely dependent on the demographic characteristics of the people involved.

Cishet white male: unrestricted right to self-defense.

Cishet white female: provisional right to self-defense, usually if facing threat or murder, rape, or assault by a stranger. (If you know your attacker, self-defense does not apply.)

Everyone else: no right to self-defense exists. You will be prosecuted for assault or murder after unambiguous cases of self-defense. The one thing the United States will never accept is minority groups using lethal violence to protect themselves. Even most Democrats would be appalled by this. Deep down, most liberals feel minorities are supposed to be protected by benevolent white people; they're not supposed to defend themselves.

Hard to squirrel bite and grape nuts when you've been roofied. So embrace your gremlin energy but also exercise "reasonable" caution.

It's completely fucking UNreasonable how much society tolerates and expects violence and abuse perpetrated on women simply because they are women. (It's another proof trans women are women btw)

But that is the compliment!!!! I haven't heard for a long time calling me like that, probably I am loosing my spine....

Wear that with pride! I once got called "the biggest misandrist on lemmy". I smile everytime I think about it

Unfortunately, it's not only USA.. it's everywhere...