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"  Uhhh, yesterday evening, while most of us were eating dinner and not tweeting about when it&amp;#039;s okay to rape someone, Dr. Phil took to Twitter to ask this question (via Buzzfeed):  Naturally, users responded with shock and disgust and he immediately deleted the tweet afterwards \u2014 but it&amp;#039;s so vague, it&amp;#039;s hard to take seriously. The exact phrasing of the question doesn&amp;#039;t clarify if this woman has had a few drinks, then wants to have sex, or she&amp;#039;s actually, you know, passed out. Myself and many of my friends have certainly had sex after we&amp;#039;ve had a beer or two on a date, but it was sex we&amp;#039;ve enthusiastically consented to. Honestly, if a dude withheld sex from me just because I had three white wines and he thought I was &amp;quot;too drunk,&amp;quot; I&amp;#039;d be pretty pissed that he was patronizing me.  If a woman&amp;#039;s too drunk, or too unconscious, to give consent, that&amp;#039;s when it&amp;#039;s not OKAY to have sex with her. Or if she gives consent, but is on the verge of passing out or throwing up, you can take that as a &amp;quot;NO.&amp;quot; Making the judgment call isn&amp;#039;t hard. It&amp;#039;s pretty black and white, actually. A spokesman for Dr. Phil released a statement: &amp;quot;This tweet was intended to evoke discussion leading into a very serious show topic. It was not intended to be taken lightly. It&amp;#039;s based upon a recent news story, hence the #teensaccused label.&amp;quot;   Given the context, the tweet was fine. However, it would&amp;#039;ve been better off if he had clarified that the question was meant to elicit hypothetical responses, not defend the concept of date rape.   Follow Anna on Twitter.   Image via Getty "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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