My views on alcohol are extremely negative. I doubt you'll agree with me.
Getting her drunk, technically, is date raping her. Women lose most of their decision making facilities when drunk, which is why alcohol is so popular as a date lubricant. Women should be banned from alcohol because it makes them walking rape targets (if we are actually serious about consent). I see alcohol as probably one of the most dangerous and hardest drugs out there.
My views on that are actually hardline in the opposite direction. I think that because nobody would take you seriously if you tried to defend your actions by saying you were drunk (imagine saying you were too drunk to realize you shouldn't drive home), I don't believe in any of that alcohol-consent-rape nonsense.
Unless she's so drunk she's on the floor or passed out or something extreme like that.
That last line I kind of agree. Alcohol is a pretty strong drug compared to like half the ones that are illegal. But I've got a radical view on that too: legalize all drugs, criminalize being an addict/junkie of any kind.
When it comes to manipulation - What I'm getting at is purely being strategic with your communication and behavior, doing and saying things that you know women broadly find attractive. That's manipulation.
Oh yeah the dictionary definition, in which case I agree with you mostly.
The word has a negative connotation that makes most people think of something extreme like gaslighting.