Go right for the ad-hominem attack, Ms. Jackson! those who disagree with you are certainly comparable to people in cultures that practice female genital mutilation, stoning of rape victims, and honor killings of female relatives!
Now, let me try to explain this:
Even though there is no huge upswell in reported rapes, there is a rape industry on campuses in this country, that thrives on trying to redefine “rape” downward. The rape industry justifies itself, even in the absence of actual complaints, by citing statistics such as the 1/4 of college females are or will be rape victims. They get to that 25% by counting incidents that have never before been considered rape – such as morning-after remorse, or the male participant failing to get explicit permission from the female at each and every stage of intimate contact. The “problem” is that the rape industry, while professing to be helping rape victims, is in actuality infantilizing college-age young people. Because the crisis centers and interventionists are indoctrinated in the feminist mantra that anything male is bad, they, for the most part, deal with females. Thus Ms. Mac Donald’s understandable focus (though not exclusive focus) on members of the female sex.
In fact, she several times mentions boorish male behavior in the original column. I’d like to know just what level of gender-equity you would like to see in a column about rape. Should the female-male criticism ratio be 1:1, 2:1, 3:1, 3:2, 11:13? Is it possible, in your opinion, to write critically of one sex without also criticizing the other?
By taking such an unmovable stand about questioning why Ms. Mac Donald did not equally suggest to the “rape industrialists” that they should tell both women AND men “to avoid drunken hookups,” you make yourself appear to be an unrepentant anti-male bigot, who needs to have any criticism of female behavior followed by a disclaimer like, “men are no better.”
