Unseen – thank you for your honesty. At least you admit to being in favour of the double standard. Mac Donald does not. I can’t quite see why. She would have plenty of support Western men and even some Western women, and, of course, universal support from Muslim and other more backward, non-Western cultures.
Maybe the double standard is there for a reason. Maybe it is there to prevent rapes,STDs, depression, disrespect for one sex.
And it does such wonderful job in Muslim countries, doesn’t it? In Saudi Arabia, for example. Rape victims are lashed or stoned there, rather than just dismissed and condemned by people like yourself and MacDonald. Perhaps that’s the answer. As for STDs, Saudi Arabia has a huge problem with AIDS. The men avail themselves of prostitutes, which the double standard fully allows them to do.
I agree that there is “disrespect for one sex” – the female sex, although “disrespect” doesn’t begin to cover it.
