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Wed Feb 12, 2014, 06:03 PM Feb 2014

James Taranto Will Tell You When You've Been Raped, Ladies

http://www.thewire.com/politics/2014/02/james-taranto-will-tell-you-when-youve-been-raped-ladies/357953/

James Taranto Will Tell You When You've Been Raped, Ladies
Philip Bump

The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto would like society to spend a little more time holding young women accountable for having been sexually assaulted, because James Taranto is apparently incapable of acknowledging that there exist cultural imbalances that act entirely in his favor.

Taranto is a foot soldier in the nonexistent "war on men," standing outside the well-fortified walls of male power, a little dagger in his hand, railing against the women walking past on the horizon. He's defended a reduced sentence for a man convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious coworker. He's blamed women for not following 1950s-era guidelines for sexual relationships. He thinks birth control has been a net negative. And there's more.

On Tuesday, he added this to the canon.

If two drunk drivers are in a collision, one doesn't determine fault on the basis of demographic details such as each driver's sex. But when two drunken college students "collide," the male one is almost always presumed to be at fault.


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James Taranto Will Tell You When You've Been Raped, Ladies (Original Post) jsr Feb 2014 OP
we collided, and his penis accidentally...... Skittles Feb 2014 #1
More important, he will tell you all about all those women raping drunk men. Squinch Feb 2014 #2
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