Bristol Palin Won’t Be Goaded Into Admitting Date Rape
July 21, 2011 by Hollywoodite
When first shilling her autobiography, Bristol Palin eluded to date rape. She used the word “stolen” when talking about drunkenly losing her virginity to ex-boyfriend and father of her son, Levi Johnston. When asked by ABC News whether she was date raped, she denied it and claimed it was just choice wording to describe feelings of disappointment in herself and Johnston in the way things went down. When asked why she kept sleeping with Johnston, she replied that she’d already broken her “moral code” and she didn’t see the point in stopping; it was a point of no return. Which makes no sense and it’s indicative of the flawed thinking that got her into this media clusterf**k in the first place. She got a little sympathy, and women’s forums/ boards were on fire talking about how sex while drunk was probably date rape and Palin had been conditioned to blame herself and explain away her actions. That would probably be what’s happening here; she’s rationalising drunk sex, while blaming herself.
She had a sit-down interview with Dr. Drew, who tried his hardest to get the young mother to admit she was raped. She won’t, which is her prerogative. But that didn’t stop him trying. There’s a preview video of the interview at Gawker.
“In California, [having sex with a drunk woman] would be a rape. Is it the same in Alaska?” he asks, to which Bristol sheepishly admits to not being up on the finer points of Alaskan technical-rape law.
Drew presses on, “Did it feel like rape?” Nope, still not biting, doctor! “Now remember what kids do is they try to make it right by justifying what happened…”
She’s reticent, right? She’s giving away nothing. But she’s already been bull-baited with these tactics before; she sees them coming, at this point. She was drunk, she was irresponsible, she was thoughtless, she didn’t use protection properly, and she had buyers’ remorse. And, she may have actually been date raped. Maybe. Ugh, she should have used clearer wording, been clearer about what she meant from the outset, or never eluded to this in the first place. In any case, she needs therapy and not to be shilling this pointless book about making a career of getting knocked-up.