Sigh. As many know, today a Slate writer offered that someone assaulted at the age of 17 who didn’t report it should never be taken seriously or, really, allowed to write about the subject. What?
Yup, Linda Hirshman’s argument, which comes as part of a strange, somewhat chaotic anti-Jezebel screed, boils down to this.
- By acting or appearing sexy or sexual, women are simply providing spank-bank material for men, some of whom will eventually rape them.
- Rape results when women don’t protect themselves enough.
- Sexual abuse victims should always submit to the vagaries of the criminal justice system regardless of circumstance.
- Those that do not are not real feminists.
- Having thus made that anti-feminist choice not to report a rape, they are then responsible for any rapes committed in the future by their rapist.
- Thus guilty of committing rapes by proxy, anything they write, speak or advocate for in terms of sexual assault is thus intellectually incoherent.
To wit:
As last summer’s video revealed, the Jezebel editors have pretty vivid lives to share. Moe Tkacik was apparently date-raped and says she has had unprotected sex, and Tracie Egan, in her words, “decided to go home with someone I never would have, had my vision not been impaired by 14 hours of drinking.” Jezebel editor Megan Carpentier was raped and did not report it to the police.
“Apparently”? I guess by that measure I got off easy.
Hirshman then, among other things, says the “risks of [sexual] liberation” include rape, as if rape is neither an act of random act of violence nor an existing problem prior to sexual liberation, adding:
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