Assistant Village Idiot – precisely.
The bad sex/beer goggles thing happens to both men and women. It isn’t a big deal, at least not for me. But if all MacDonald wanted to do was dissuade young women from having beer-goggled bad sex, why not just say so? Why bring rape into it at all? Why not just say – directly to young women, and not through the hypothetical words of a “rape industrialist” – don’t get drunk or you could go to bed with a prince and end up with a frog.
Englishmen, perhaps American men too, joke: “What is the difference between a fox and a dog? About five pints.” MacDonald and her supporters, assuming they understood the Britspeak, might laugh indulgently at such a joke.
But suppose a woman were to make the same joke about a frog and a prince? Would MacDonald, and most of the posters here, laugh it off as “girls will be girls”?
I don’t think so.
There is a double standard. Hardly anyone has challenged that. Perhaps y’all think it’s OK?
