His argument focuses on one factor which exclusively make men vulnerable when it comes to accusations of sexual assault: alcohol consumption.
After pointing out that reports usually involve instances in which both parties are drinking to excess, as college students often do, he draws an analogy:
“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. His diminished capacity owing to alcohol is not a mitigating factor, but her diminished capacity is an aggravating factor for him.”This paragraph was cited in a fusillade of articles appearing in the Huffington Post, Thinking Progress and others today deriding Taranto as a rape apologist and accusing him of colluding with men’s rights activists even though he has never identified as one.
The Huffington post article featured angry tweets from readers. One from @blackburncenter stating:”Tell @WSJ that rape apologists have no place at their newspaper! Sign the petition: http://t.co/YeVYpbz0FI.”
As of the writing of this article there are no less than fourteen news items listed in a Google news search for “James Taranto” that cite his article posted just yesterday.
Sources:
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304558804579374844067975558
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/11/james-taranto-rape-wall-street-journal_n_4766064.html
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/02/11/3275721/taranto-college-rape/
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