DATE RAPE BEER? JUST SAY "NO" TO RAPE CULTURE ADVERTISING

"Anheuser-Busch has apologized for a message on bottles of Bud Light that said it is



 The labels are no longer being produced.


The label had promised Bud Light was "the perfect beer for removing 'no' from your vocabulary for the night." But that's exactly the word that occurred to many people who say the message recalls alcohol's troublesome connection to sexual assaults."

FROM NPR, BILL CHAPPELL

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/04/29/403030019/bud-light-pulls-label-with-message-that-sparked-backlash

Let's break this down in hetero-world:

1) Bud Light - The name of the beer alone represents advertising centered on women who are more often watching the calories

2) Notice it says remove from "your" own vocabulary instead of "no" from "her" vocabulary.  So clearly the advertising message is NOT [directly] about a man disabling a woman's consent.

3) Notice it says remove from "your" own vocabulary instead of "no" from "her" vocabulary. The  advertising message is about a woman disabling her own consent -- because women can't just decide to have sex without "losing their inhibitions"

TRANSLATION: Women need this drink because women who don't really own their sexuality  They REALLY always mean "yes" --- if they can just lose their inhibitions.

WELCOME TO RAPE CULTURE MENTALITY

When a woman says she's been raped even if it's clear she was not drunk off her ass, the first thing she is asked is "were you drinking?" And this is asked AS IF it would be okay for a man to have sex with a person that's not conscious (Check out the link below if  this confuses you or if you're confused about the accusations against Bill Cosby or what happened to that Steubenville Girl) 

If  a woman who has been raped says she has had a full two glasses of wine some will imply that  her"crying rape" is just an expression of "buyer's remorse." 

This 1950s mindset STILL believes in 2015 that women are incapable of choosing sex COMPLETELY consciously. And this  Anheuser-Busch ad proves that this thinking is still present among us.

I actually had a man use these old, old words, "buyer's remorse," to describe the first few women who came forward to accuse Cosby of drug-em and rape-em.  He said, "The women had a couple of drinks, had sex, and had buyer remorse in the morning." I wonder if he moved on to defending Cosby with "It's a Conspiracy!" once the number of women making the same accusation over multiple decades moved into the two or three dozen range?


Click Here to READ TEA FOR TWO:  Rape Culture for Dummies


Click Here to Read Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Bill Cosby Rape Cases