Recently on Substack (in “Unpopular Political Opinions”), I wrote about age of consent laws across the country that supposedly protect young mature women from making bad choices, or rather, choices her parents or the government would rather she not make. There are states where an 18-year-old boy who has sex with his 17-year-old girlfriend commits a felony, regardless of her consent, regardless of her initiating the act, and regardless of her insisting she is 22 and showing him a driver’s license to prove it.
Though these laws long pre-date today’s “fourth-wave feminism,” the reasoning behind them is perfectly consistent with modern feminist principles, the primary of which seems to be that women (especially young women) can never be held responsible for their own choices and their own behavior.
The accuser in the Cornell-7 rape case showed up drunk to a frat party, then voluntarily (eagerly?) joined in some rather gross, drunken, and drugged group sex with a bunch of guys. Three weeks later, after she found out what her friends were saying about her, she decided she had not consented, so she initiated a rape case that was never pursued by the prosecutor since it was obvious to him that whatever had happened, it was not a crime.
Now she’s at it again, this time in a civil suit where all she wants is to get paid. The government of New York, however, in an election season, decided to reopen the criminal case, try to put the young men in jail and ruin their lives. It is appalling there is a government anywhere in the world that would entertain such an idea.
I am not the first person (or even the first feminist), to point out that, in the long run, infantilizing women does them no favors.
Copyright2026Michael Kubacki
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