🧩 BND Motif Index · M629
Too drunk to consent
Whether intoxication erases consent, or excuses the accused, becomes the battleground, with the law attacked as a loophole by one side and invoked as a defense by the other.
⚖️ Values🗂️ Sex and gender🗂️ Abuse and silence
- 4claims filed under it
- 1left show it came up on
- 1right show it came up on
- 2claims retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 1
⚖️ center 0
🦗 none of our center shows, so far
🐘 right 1
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 NY attorney General faces bar ethics complaint over Cornell 7 case 2026-10-02 to 2026-10-11
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-23 “The plaintiff argues she was too intoxicated to consent to the sexual encounters.”
🎙️ The Young Turks (podcast) - 2026-10-08 “New York's intoxication loophole is said to let the Chi Phi fraternity members accused of gang-raping a woman at Cornell escape a rape charge.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-08 “The "Cornell 7" rape case is a witch hunt: the evidence shows the sex was consensual, and innocent men are being smeared.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-05 “The proposed law would create a legal contradiction regarding personal responsibility for voluntary intoxication.”
🎙️ The Matt Walsh Show
M629 · first seen 2026-10-08 · last 2026-10-23 · what this is · how the index works