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A Woeful Misreading of ‘Campus Rape Myth’

April 24, 2008 - 12:00 am - by Heather Mac Donald
Mike
2008-04-30 06:44:25

Your link doesn’t work.

For some reason the end period for the sentence got included in the link – try this one:

http://volokh.com/posts/1113597035.shtml

Exactly how does Ms. Mac Donald imply that only dark-alley rapes can happen? I don’t see that in her writing at all. She never discusses the relative merits of various rape circumstances, whether it’s perpetrated by a stranger, husband, or acquaintance. She makes what I agree is an unimpeachable argument: if the rape industry really believe that drunken hookups are “rape,” then it should be willing to advise the likely victims (women) to do everything possible to avoid this “rape.” i.e., avoid drunken hookups. What is so controversial about this?

Where is this double standard that Jackson so adamantly insists is in Mac Donald’s writing? She never explicitly endorses any such thing, and any implication that you see has got to be tenuous at best since the majority of commenters here have missed it. (I am assuming their good faith, unlike Jackson, who immediately assumes that anyone not in total agreement with her is a “knuckle dragging redneck”. See Jackson’s blog at http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_display.cfm/blog_id/14418
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