Wall Street Journal columnist James Taranto found himself in hot water on Monday with calls for his dismissal from the newspaper by sexual assault advocates after he wrote an editorial arguing that drunk female victims of sexual assault were just as guilty as drunk male perpetuators.
“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,” Taranto wrote. “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.”