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Double standard
Heather MacDonald shows her true colours on the "Campus Rape Myth" when she writes, in a recent note:
Campus rape researchers and advocates...say that they believe that a whopping one-fifth to one-quarter of college women are raped by their fellow students. Virtually all of these alleged rapes could be avoided if the girls took certain steps: don’t get into bed with a guy when you are very drunk, don’t take off your clothes, don’t get involved in oral sex, and so on. Such advice is fully consistent with female empowerment. It recognizes that girls have the power to stop “campus rape.” It treats them as moral agents able to control their fates.
The glaring omission from this self-righteous little diatribe is the behaviour of men. Perhaps men should not go to bed with a girl when very drunk, take off their clothes and so forth. Then rapes wouldn't happen. But no, MacDonald thinks men should be able to carry on exactly as they please. They can't help themselves, poor dears.
MacDonald strikes me as another woman who, in Jane Austen's words, "seek to recommend themselves to the other sex by undervaluing their own". I could go on to say that the world is full of women like this, but I'd better not.
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