Two Things Can Be True

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“Because we have been barraged with feminist propaganda, we have come to treat anyone who believes in a woman’s moral agency as someone who automatically ‘blames the victim.’ But two things can be true at the same time. A thief ought not to have broken into your car and stolen your wallet; and simultaneously, you shouldn’t have left your wallet on the dashboard with twenty-dollar bills sticking out of it in a bad part of town. The thief should be arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, of course, And all of your friends should still laugh and call you an idiot for leaving your wallet there. And if you try to defend yourself to your friends and say, ‘I frankly think that you’re blaming the victim here,’ they should laugh and say, ‘Yeah, well, we are, because in this case the victim is an idiot.”

Keep Your Kids, pp. 101-102