I’ll never forget the morning a friend called me up because she got roofied the night before. At least she was pretty sure she did. A blackout after two drinks.
Thankfully nothing happened because she went to sleep it off in her car. We spent the better part of a morning trying to track down her missing phone, which she left at the pub.
While we sat on a bus bench and debated whether she should go to the hospital, some square-jawed older man gave us a grin and said we’d be prettier if we smiled.
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.
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.
That’s exactly why the place was targeted. If it were some deserted neighborhood dive bar with only three regulars in it, it wouldn’t be hard to figure out who slipped the roofie. The guys who do this target places with large crowds, where no one can know everyone, and where they can slip in and out without being remembered. They just want to be another face in the crowd. It’s hard to grab a roofied girl and pull the whole, “my friend is drunk, I’m going to take her home now” bit if it’s a tight-knit bar where everyone knows everyone. And ultimately, from the point of view of the predator, there’s no point in roofieing someone if you can’t bring them home with you. The roofie is a means to an end, not an end in itself.
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.
Putting a strong sedative hypnotic into someone’s drink. Also called date rape.
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.
She was just passing through the city, so she was sleeping in her car anyway. The friends she was out with thought she was tired, my opinion on some of them is a whole other story.
I hate how demanding people are about being smiled at. A lot of people are really unhelpful unless you sit there smiling at them and laugh at their jokes. Mostly men but I’ve met other women like this too.
A lot of people just don’t smile naturally. Rbf is real. I’ve taught myself to smile and laugh but it takes so much energy. I’m so tired of this performative nonsense. I shouldn’t have to pretend to smile and laugh at my boss in order for him to treat me nicely and take me seriously.
I’m tired. So very tired.
Edit: Sorry but this is it for me and this platform. I’m done.
I don’t have the energy to post on this platform anymore. I understand that the person in this situation is a blatant troll but I’m also aware that the mod team of this community having a disdain for me.
I know I don’t post in this community often. I’m younger than a lot of people here and honestly, sometimes things do get a little extreme. There’s been times where I’ve felt like I was on crystalcafe. That said, even I deserve to feel safe here. And I don’t.
Rbf is real.
So is resting homicidal axe murderer face. That’s what Dad had. 🤣
Ironically, the only time he smiled was after the axe murders.
Hey! How did you find out about those!? The family expended a LOT of effort to destroy that evidence!
It’s not a woman’s job to smile for a man’s pleasure.
Maybe women are just better at getting away with killing men.
Edit: Woops! Didn’t look at the community before posting my joke.
Why is there a picture of a nicely dressed black man?
I replied on the crosspost and got lots of diwnvotes and was called a misandrist
Wear that with pride! I once got called “the biggest misandrist on lemmy”. I smile everytime I think about it
I’m the prime example of everything wrong in the conversation about sexism, apparently.
But that is the compliment!!! I haven’t heard for a long time calling me like that, probably I am loosing my spine…
