
Often, when a woman says she’s had her drink spiked, or she’s been sexually assaulted, a choir will promptly respond that she deserved it.
Her skirt was too short. Her hair was too long. Her eye make up was too dark. Her top was too low cut.
But this week, a Perth nightclub owner did precisely the opposite.
When 19-year-old Shantel Smith told Neil Scott her drink had been spiked at Rapture nightclub over a Facebook message, he told her she didn’t deserve it.
She wasn’t “attractive” enough, he insisted, to justify anyone wasting their drugs on her.

"Are you worth someone trying to spike your drink?" he asked.
It was as though Smith thought that drink spiking was a privilege reserved for the beautiful.
Just as one might deserve a promotion or an award, there are a select few women who are lucky enough to deserve having their drink spiked. And, according to Scott's once-over of Smith, she wasn't one of them.
Smith shared their correspondence on social media, and Scott's response quickly went viral.

Top Comments
This guy is a part of the problem. Fake apology not accepted. Sexual assualt is not about sex, it's about power, control, lack of respect and hatred.
"Men don't desire the women they hurt. They hate them."
Spot on. This message needs to be spread far and wide. It's a sick combination of hatred and "power". Something has happened to the perpetrator to develop a hatred of women and he takes it out on the woman unfortunate enough to be in his path at the time he chooses to attack.