Hmm, could it be because (a) by and large, college-aged young men do not cry rape after a fuzzy experience?
The flaw in that argument is that college-age young women by and large do not cry rape after a fuzzy experience either. Those rape crisis phones aren’t ringing, as MacDonald herself says in her opening paragraph.
What’s going in isn’t generally rape (although date rape can happen) and neither the men nor the women are saying it is. What is going on is lots of drunken sex, and lots of people “acting like louts”.
MacDonald condemns this behaviour in women and not at all in men. All her criticisms of “slutty” behaviour about girls drinking a lot and going with men they don’t know. There is no criticism of men drinking a lot and going with girls they don’t know. None whatsoever.
If, as you and some others impy, MacDonald is merely concerned for girls’ welfare – that they should avoid having sex they later regret – why does she not address them – and this issue – direcly? Why put her words into the mouth of a hypothetical “rape industrialist”? Indeed why mention rape at all?
Because her concern is not to advise and help the girls. It is to condemn their behaviour, while accepting as inevitable exactly the same behaviour in men. And she isn’t even honest enough to say so directly, as some of the more unreconstructed men posting here have done.
