Michael Meyden is accused of making the smoothies with benzodiazepine, a drug typically prescribed for anxiety, according to a probable cause affidavit.
An Oregon man accused of spiking smoothies with sedatives and giving them to his daughter’s pre-teen friends has been charged with multiple felonies, according to court documents.
Michael Meyden, 57, of Lake Oswego, allegedly drugged three of his daughter’s friends while they slept over on the night of Aug. 25, 2023, according to court documents and a probable cause affidavit filed this week in Clackamas County.
The girls, all 12 years old, were hospitalized and tested positive for benzodiazepine, described in the affidavit as a drug typically prescribed for anxiety, with common prescriptions under the names Valium, Xanax and Klonopin. Benzodiazepines are a depressant that produces sedation, sleepiness and a relaxed mood, the affidavit said.
The patriarchy and culture of toxic masculinity. Added to that many religions teach that men are more important than women.
Again if you live your life by those statistics, you would also be wary of black people. Saying “yeah it’s sexism but it’s justified because statistics show men commit more sexual assaults” is no different than saying you are wary of blacks based on the same statistics.
And because of this, it’s not important for women to protect themselves? We should denounce the fact that women protect themselves because society has conditioned men to be violent?
Look, I’m all about addressing the root cause, but just pointing at one injustice in society doesn’t make another just disappear.
You really need to stop saying “well if you’re taking precautions based on statistics you must also be racist”
Because that’s a really transparent fallacy that essentially just boils down to you asserting “women shouldn’t protect themselves because what about black people?”
These are separate points, and putting the words in my mouth that I must be racist is nothing more than deflection to avoid addressing the actual point.
Additionally, I know very many people who wear seat belts because of the statistical chance of being in a wreck. According to your fallacy, all of those people must also be racist.
The fallacy I’m trying to elaborate is mismatched risk. Cars are far more dangerous but you ignore that risk. You could choose to not be sexist just like you currently choose to ignore the statistics to not be racist.
1 in 3 women experience unwanted sexual contact at least once in their lifetime. That’s roughly 65 million women in the states.
That’s not an insignificant risk. You may choose to ignore it, but you clearly don’t have to live with it.
Saying “women should ignore potential danger” on the premise that it’s not fair to a man, who is 9 times out of 10 not even effected by the precautions that women tend to take, is basically like saying you shouldn’t wear a seat belt so that you don’t accidentally offend the other drivers on the road.
You aren’t discriminating against those other drivers by being conscious of your own safety.
Whether or not you agree with that doesn’t really change the fact that women are taught to go to the bathroom in groups or go to the bar with friends (or really not go anywhere alone that they might not be able to easily call for help) or carry mace or cross the street to avoid a man that’s looking at them creepily or any number of avoidant situations.
These are things women do to protect themselves that literally only affect the men who wanted to and would otherwise miss an opportunity to assault them, and things women are taught to do by other women because sexual assault is a thing that happens.
The only context things like this are even brought up as “sexist” at all is when men realize that women have to do it and then get offended on the behalf of all men because it’s “not fair”. Like in this conversation we’re having now.