Cathy Young and Jeff Goldstein have been discussing a peculiar case of false rape allegations for a few days, and now we have the official response from the feminist establishment. It’s not pretty.
It seems to me that the trouble with rape laws in America today is that the pendulum has swung too far in the direction of easy convictions. This was accomplished by expanding the definition of rape toward the “informed consent” standard and limiting evidence that can be introduced in court with rape shield laws. So we have a fundamentally different dynamic in rape cases than in all other criminal prosecutions.
How to remedy that situation – to put the pendulum on dead center – is a hard problem, but it’s not something that we’re going to make much progress on until those who advocated our out-of-balance condition stop pouting and throwing tantrums.
It is certainly the case that women in Islamic Republics don’t have the rights they should, but the nexus between their condition of that of the middle-class American white women who make false allegations of rape after a bad date is non-existent.