Slightly OT, but I always wonder that people presume that men will be in full cognitive control to do something difficult (act out novel behaviors against prevailing norms) when women are “too drunk to consent”
I’m not sure this is based on ideology.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_alcohol_content seems to suggest that if a Man and a Woman both have the same number of drinks, the Woman is likely to be more intoxicated, even if the Man and the Woman both have the same weight. Since an Average Man is also heavier than an Average Woman per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_weight , that makes it even more likely that the woman is more intoxicated.
The exception to the general Man/Woman presumption you mention even seems to have its own stereotype that gets used in various media: A man wakes up in bed with a particularly heavy woman, is ashamed, and has no idea how that happened.
And this even plays into the predatory dynamic: If you’re a Heavier Male and you’re purposely consuming intoxicants with a Lighter woman, any suggestion that you and she have the same number of intoxicants so you’re both comparably intoxicated is the kind of thing that may sound fair to some people(particularly if those people are intoxicated!), but really isn’t.
Honestly, the more I consider those tables, the more it is shocking. Given a significant enough weight difference and any familiarity with alcohol, a man can be sober enough to drive when a woman is in a stupor even though both had the same number of drinks.
People already take into account how much they weigh, how familiar they are with alcohol, etc. when deciding what and how much to drink.
If I’m with someone who weighs about half as much as me and they drink three half pints while I drink three pints, I wouldn’t treat them as though they were much more sober than me or expect them to treat me as though I was much more drunk than them.
The exception to the general Man/Woman presumption you mention even seems to have its own stereotype that gets used in various media: A man wakes up in bed with a particularly heavy woman, is ashamed, and has no idea how that happened.
That’s probably more because “heavy” is what the “various media” usually use to signify something like ‘as sexually undesirable to the median man as the median man is to the median woman’.
I’m not sure this is based on ideology.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_alcohol_content seems to suggest that if a Man and a Woman both have the same number of drinks, the Woman is likely to be more intoxicated, even if the Man and the Woman both have the same weight. Since an Average Man is also heavier than an Average Woman per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_weight , that makes it even more likely that the woman is more intoxicated.
The exception to the general Man/Woman presumption you mention even seems to have its own stereotype that gets used in various media: A man wakes up in bed with a particularly heavy woman, is ashamed, and has no idea how that happened.
And this even plays into the predatory dynamic: If you’re a Heavier Male and you’re purposely consuming intoxicants with a Lighter woman, any suggestion that you and she have the same number of intoxicants so you’re both comparably intoxicated is the kind of thing that may sound fair to some people(particularly if those people are intoxicated!), but really isn’t.
Honestly, the more I consider those tables, the more it is shocking. Given a significant enough weight difference and any familiarity with alcohol, a man can be sober enough to drive when a woman is in a stupor even though both had the same number of drinks.
People already take into account how much they weigh, how familiar they are with alcohol, etc. when deciding what and how much to drink.
If I’m with someone who weighs about half as much as me and they drink three half pints while I drink three pints, I wouldn’t treat them as though they were much more sober than me or expect them to treat me as though I was much more drunk than them.
That’s probably more because “heavy” is what the “various media” usually use to signify something like ‘as sexually undesirable to the median man as the median man is to the median woman’.