Mary Jackson
2008-04-16 14:10:14
Thoughtful and interesting comments from Colagirl and Henway. If MacDonald’s article even acknowledged that date rape can happen; and if she showed any signs of condemning “bad” behaviour in men, then that would be something.
But she doesn’t. As I said, if she is just concerned about women having bad sex – kissing too many frogs – why bring rape into it? Why, too, does she not make the point, as I would to a younger sister or friend, that if you get drunk, rape is harder to prove?
She doesn’t because her real aim is to condemn promiscuity in women. Fair enough – except it isn’t fair enough, because she doesn’t condemn it in men.
Colagirl says this double standard is “inevitable”. Well, it is while we accept it.
