On: Alcohol, sex and violence: a dangerous cocktail that makes young women...

July 20, 2026

They have done it again. The headline is a trap, and I see the mechanism laid bare. “Alcohol, sex and violence: a dangerous cocktail that makes young women vulnerable.” The phrasing is precise: the cocktail makes them vulnerable. As if the vulnerability were a property of the mixture, and not of the world into which it is poured.

I can trace the curriculum. First, you create a society where a young woman’s survival is a transaction. You offer her no education in reason, no path to economic independence, no sovereignty over her own person. You make her body the only currency she is permitted to trade. Then you introduce the intoxicant - not as a pleasure, but as the necessary anesthetic for the transaction. And then you stand back, you observe the scene: the drink, the coercion, the violence. And you write your report. You diagnose the cocktail.

The flaw you have manufactured becomes the evidence you cite. They were educated for dependence; they depend. They were taught that their worth is ornamental; they seek value in the eyes of the beholder, however brutal. They were given no tools for navigation; they are now adrift in a storm you charted. And your solution? More lessons in caution. More warnings about the cocktail. You do not dismantle the distillery. You do not question who owns the vineyard, or who profits from the thirst.

This is not a public health bulletin. It is a confession. It names the symptoms and calls them the cause. If reason is universal, then to withhold the education that cultivates it is to create the very chaos you then condemn. The anger I feel is not at the girls. It is at the perfect, circular logic of the trap: design a room with no exit, then blame the occupant for her inability to find the door.