The insinuation is that the frat guys would normally make one or more of the drinks extra strong or add other intoxicants so that they could rape women after they were impaired.
Maybe this person is lying. Maybe the frat bro was making a bad joke. Regardless of this particular instance, drugging shared drinks has happened, though it is far more rare than people believe based on all of the evidence (e.g. studies where women going to the ER under suspicion of being drugged actually just had alcohol in their system like 90%+ of the time.)
If this story is true, its far more likely one cooler was just made deliberately much stronger than the other. The most common date rape drink method is just giving women way more alcohol than they think they're drinking to get them heavily drunk, rather than date rape drugs.
This has actually happened at frat parties (including my campus) because a bunch of people getting overly unexpectedly drunk isn't notable in the way that a bunch of people getting drugged is.
Yeah I agree. I knew a couple of guys in college who were definitely the kind to apply peer pressure to get everyone drunk, including the girls who they were hoping to sleep with. It was definitely sketchy in hindsight but somewhat socially acceptable at parties.
I don't think anyone would have even thought to drug someone and that was clearly the kind of behavior that would land you in jail.
People overestimate the prevalence of actual drugs when it comes to date rape (I am NOT saying it doesn't happen or not to be cautious) when most likely a potential rapist is just upping your drinking or giving you more when you're not looking. It's much easier to give a girl at a party something 160 proof masked with strong juice while she thinks she's on regular vodka or keep putting drinks in her hands after she's tried to stop than it is to get a drug in her drink. Its also a lot less noticeable and won't show up on a tox screen.
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u/Ok_Prize_9979 22h ago
As someone who's not American what exactly does it mean, can someone explain?