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Common Sense and Double Standards in ‘Campus Rape Myth’

April 16, 2008 - 8:45 am - by Mary Jackson
Mary Jackson
2008-04-16 04:11:10

but it most certainly does prevent the types of experiences that are turned into rape charges when regret and sobriety set in.

But according to MacDonald, the students aren’t turning these into rape charges. Right at the beginning of her article, MacDonald says Rape Crisis Centres are silent. Female students are not saying drunken hookups are rape, so what’s the problem? Why should they change their behaviour?

Well, they should change it because “drunken hookups” aren’t nice. Fair enough. But not fair enough, because she doesn’t criticise this behaviour in men, only in women.

MacDonald uses an article supposedly about a non-rape crisis to criticise the behaviour of women. But she doesn’t criticise men for doing exactly the same thing.