Mary Jackson:
I’m a bit puzzled. I went back and read your article on Heather MacDonald. Your main complaint was that MacDonald advocates one standard for men and another for women. Here you’ve come up with your own set of double standards. But yours are OK because they favor women, while MacDonald’s favors men.
I find it fascinating that so many commenters at PJM on my recent Mac Donald thread called the women lying sluts and disbelieved everything they said. These women, so it went, should not have got drunk etc.
Now they are saying that men should always be believed no matter what.
First of all, I just did a quick scroll through the MacDonald thread and this one, eyeballing the names very quickly. People can change Internet niks, of course, but the commenters appear to be mainly different people in both threads. So “they” are not saying one different thing on one spot on PJM and contradicting themselves elsewhere. That’s what you appear to be doing.
Secondly, show where “they” are saying “men should always be believed, no matter what.”
You’ve built a lovely strawman, Mary, is that a Brit thing?
