History of Feminism

If a victim doesn't remember every detail of her trauma perfectly, she is a liar. If she is not able to dispassionately and objectively narrate everything, she is not to be trusted.

Notice how Slate's journalist immediately finds only two possible explanations for Randall, one of the friends Jackie turned to, saying he wasn't contacted for comments by RS? Either Jackie created a false email and impersonated him, or the RS journalist is lying about contacting him. Slate simply does not think that perhaps Randall is lying about being contacted by the journalist.

The same goes for those who thought the RS journalist should have contacted the rapists on a piece about the school's handling of rapes. What do they think any rapist would say when confronted? Do they think rapists are more trustworthy than rape victims when it comes to telling what happens? Unfortunately, many of us know that people think exactly that.