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.
Far from missing it, the majority of commenters here have endorsed it. And yes, I regard people who believe in the sexual double standard as knuckle-dragging rednecks. It went out with the ark and is now fit only for Muslims and other primitives.
At the risk of repeating myself:
First of all, sluttish is a loaded word. It is only ever used of females, and MacDonald only uses it of females here. “Thuggish” or “boorish” are not nice words, true, but they do not refer to promiscuity – a promiscuity which for Mac Donald turns rape into non-rape. And men’s “boorishness” is testosterone-fuelled – ie they can’t help themselves, especially when encouraged by “slutty” women.
Second, although Mac Donald uses the word “thuggish” in passing, her advice on avoiding “rape” (which she doesn’t believe happens anyway) is not directed at men at all. There is nowhere – nowhere at all – any hint that men should, or even can, change their behaviour. Boys will be boys and girls must fit in round this.
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[W]ords denoting promiscuity are used only of women. Advice relating to promiscuous or “slutty” behaviour is given only to women. Men’s behaviour is just the way it is, with a hint that if women didn’t act so slutty, men would respect them more.
Double standard. Guilty as charged.
