Date rape is only barely starting to be acknowledged as a potential problem and not nasty sluts getting what they deserve for getting drunk.
I am pretty sure this narrative doesn't fly. The reason that it hasn't been "acknowledged" is because it is a lot more nuanced then it is on the surface. Dating culture includes the consumption of alcohol and that is an accepted aspect of it. So when people hear of a woman who went to a bar, gets bought a drink, meets a guy, keeps drinking, and discovers that she slept with him... The immediate response a normal person has isn't that something fishy went on. It is entirely up to the person who sees the situation to believe that either the man intentionally liquored her up to sleep with her... OR if the woman knew what she was getting into and is only now having second thoughts. They are not required to take either person's side (Though I wish society wouldn't harass either party. Hence why I believe in the media blackout proposal)
The acknowledgement you are referring to is more outright hysteria to the point where men actually have started to go to bars in pairs or other witnesses BECAUSE of this hysteria. Or outright hoops created that men have to go through to receive affirmation (No means no, maybe means no, yes ALSO means no. You need to ask a woman at minimum two times and she must enthusiastically say yes twice)... Or the whole "Teach men not to rape"
Since even before now people were quite aware of things like Date Rape.
Violence is just a normal part of life, and no one thinks anything of it or talks about it.
That isn't accurate either. People are in fact OVERLY concerned about violence (How many riots have there been in the last year as protest against violence?). There are three main sources of this "No one talks about it"
-1) People are beaten down by the enormity of the problem and the glacial resolution of it.
-2) The definition of violence has been watered down as an attempt to get people interested in ANYTHING!
-3) People aren't in the frontier and often have no affect over it.
As for an ordinary part of life... Yeah, mostly because it is. It is an ordinary part of life that one should expect happens even in the greatest societies because outside a technological solution there is no way to stop violence entirely. If everyone got really angry every time it happened they would be dysfunctional. That is why people constantly tell people that the murder rates are going down. Not as a way to accept the murders that occur, but that a measured response is required.
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There is a difference between a moderate response and outright hysteria.