Drinking has little do with it.
If I'm drunk as a skunk sitting on my lawn and the neighbour's off leash pit bull takes a bit out of my leg, the neighbor is legally and morally responsible. Period.
  Discrimination against women and intoxicated women is a hold over from the 18th Century days of the British Empire. It's completely undemocratic, unjust and unacceptable.
  But women need to join men in demanding the legal system be brought into the 21st Century, because low income men as well are by and large unable to obtain justice in a court of law.
  The poor live at the mercy of the rich and powerful. That's medieval.
   No lawyer = no justice. No justice and equal justice = no democracy. The justice system is medieval.
   I would readily and happily trade my right to vote for the right to have a lawyer represent me in a court of law on the various occasions when a piece of my life was wrongfully swindled away from me.