I can assure Ms. Jackson that it is of no concern to me how students, male or female, choose to conduct their sex lives, so long as they don’t put themselves forward as “rape victims” after a sexual encounter that they undertook voluntarily and participated in with apparent consent.
But as you yourself say, they are not doing so. So what’s the problem? Those phones aren’t ringing? So what’s the problem? Girls are not, in any large numbers, “crying rape”, any more than men are? So what’s the problem?
Why go on at such length and with such censoriousness about this booze-fuelled hook-up culture if it is of no concern to you?
Because it is of concern to you. Your disapproval is evident, and it is one-sided. Only in that one paragraph that you quote do you refer to boys’ “acting thuggishly” and even then the implication is because the girls get drunk and let them. Apart from that, all the condemnation is of the girls.
If, as you now claim, all you are concerned about is the message put out by the “rape industrialists”, why do you not advise them to tell both men and women to avoid drunken hook-ups? That way the women will avoid “rape” (which isn’t happening) and the men will avoid accusations of “rape”(which aren’t happening). But no, this hypothetical “advice”, like the disapproval which prompted it, is aimed solely at women.
My accusation of double standard stands. Don’t let it bother you. You are not alone. Your view is shared by most, but not all, of the commenters on my piece, and a large proportion of the Muslim and other non-developed world..
