Perhaps I didn’t read this as closely as Ms Jackson would wish, but I think she missed the point of the article she criticizes. From the bit she quotes, it sounds like Heather MacDonald was not talking about real rape at all. Rather she was criticizing the tendency of women calling bad sexual experiences, many of them fueled by excessive alcohol, rape. That is the reason for the quotation marks. The advice she gives does not protect a woman from real rape, but it most certainly does prevent the types of experiences that are turned into rape charges when regret and sobriety set in. Ms Jackson seems offended that MacDonald would criticize the so-called liberated sexual behavior of the modern university woman when men have always been guilty of such behavior. I suppose the two women are both against the double standard Ms Jackson brings up at the end of her piece. MacDonald seems to be arguing that if a behavior is bad, women should neither “accept” it nor engage in it. Mary Jackson seems to believe that by engaging in such behavior is liberating.
