Comments by "Jim Werther" (@jimwerther) on "New video shows college student hours before disappearance" video.
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@treasuretrovel3816
I don't think it has anything whatsoever to do with the DR. The same thing has been known to happen in numerous college towns or spring break hangouts, examples including Myrtle Beach, SC and Charlottesville, VA.
Anyone stumbling around inebriated is a very, very easy target. And specifically for a woman walking around alone, barely able to stand up under the weight of the alcohol? She is potentially a sitting duck. Making her chances even worse would be being in a place where a predators could reasonably predict that he would find overconfident and unprepared college co-eds in large numbers. The danger is off the charts. Think about the numerous horror stories that have come out of Myrtle Beach. Or see the video of Hannah Graham barely able to remain upright in Charlotteseville, VA when Jesse Matthew is able to usher her into his car far too easily. I wish there was a program out there teaching college girls to be wary of such situations. All too many are very easy targets.
As to Sadiksha Konanke, the most likely scenario is that she stumbled drunk into the water and drowned. Anyone who read Freakonomics knows that bodies of water can be very, very unsafe places to be. Add in copious amounts of alcohol, and the numbers get pretty scary.
At the risk of being obvious, this sort of thing was not exactly an issue for most of world history. 20 year olds were not getting inebriated while blowing their parents' money on vacations, looking to have anonymous, meaningless sex with strangers. We do in fact live in very strange times. Not too long ago in the overall scheme of things, people were forced to leave school to work on the farm long before finishing grade school. Even in the wealthy post-war decade of the 1950s, time was spent studying, not partying to excess. And 20 year old were budding adults, mentally preparing to settle down with their life partner, certainly not acting like the overgrown, immature fools so commonly found today. Of course none of this could have happened without second wave feminism, the greatest practical joke ever played on a group of people since the Trojan Horse. Women found themselves "liberated" to fulfill the dreams of immature men looking for sexual playthings with no strings attached, and women were made to believe that it was all for their own benefit. The result, of course, has been disastrous for society, but particularly for women, who are at record levels of unhappiness since being "liberated" from living life in an honorable and meaningful way. And now the thousands of women who go onto social media and complain about their inability to settle down and find a man to marry them after they've spent their formative years drunkenly sleeping around, being miserable and frequently engaging in self-destructive behavior, often including self-mutilation, substance abuse, and other harmful behavior? They would be horrified if someone suggested that it was in fact their own non-feminine, non-self-respectful behavior that got them into that mess to begin with. Yes, a world in which thousands of young people converge upon party spots to engage in hedonistic behavior doesn't lead to positive outcomes, short term or long term. Who woulda thunk it?
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