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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 05:58:16

No, Wayne, not at all. All “feminists” ask is that the same behaviour, good or bad, is judged in the same way. MacDonald and, as I see it, all her supporters here and elsewhere condemn behaviour in women that they do not condemn in men.

Yes, women should have the right to behave as badly as men, and be judged only as badly as men and no worse. It doesn’t mean that either men or women should behave badly.

How much do I need to spell it out? It is wrong to go over the speed limit. But it is more wrong to fine some people for doing it and not fine others.

As for regret over “beer goggles” sex, that is not the same as rape, as everyone here acknowledges. Men also regret “beer goggles” sex, but they are not condemned for it as women are.

Very few women are bringing rape charges because of beer goggles sex. MacDonald knows this, and she even says it. But she thinks they should change their behaviour because she disapproves of their behaviour, while seemingly indifferent to, or at least resigned to, exactly the same behaviour in men.