‘A Reliable Barometer of Wrongness’

Posted on | October 8, 2026 | No Comments

How many years have I been mocking Amanda Marcotte? Many, many years. Nearly two decades. She got mentioned in the very first National Offend a Feminist Week announcement back in May 2009, by which time I’d been mocking her regularly for more than a year. It’s been a while since I was compelled to pay attention to her, but then Dana Pico reminded me of her existence. Last week, after the “Cornell 7” case began making national headlines, Dana remarked:

I will admit it: I checked Miss Marcotte’s Salon postings, but it seems that she learned something from the rotten egg on her face twenty years ago: she hasn’t weighed in on this case, at least not yet.

He did not have long to wait, however, because two days later, Marcotte published a column about the Cornell situation, prompting Dana to return to the scene of the crime:

Amanda Marcotte, telling other people to shut up? Did she not see the irony in that when she wrote it? . . .
Miss Marcotte’s concluding paragraphs, and really her entire article, are based on the assumption, and I suspect her personal belief, that Lucy Craig’s accusations are true.

In case you have already forgotten, Lucy Craig is the former sorority girl whose lawsuit made this a national controversy. Her lawsuit calls her “Jane Doe,” but her identity is not really secret. While I’d gotten caught up in that argument — was the identification of “Jane Doe” correct? if so, was it fair to name her? — I didn’t want to be just another voice adding my two cents to the general uproar about the “Cornell 7.”

However, when Dana mentioned that Amanda Marcotte had weighed in, this gave me the “hook” I’d been looking for:

No national controversy is complete until Amanda Marcotte has made a fool of herself about it, and the feminist writer has gotten a good head start on the so-called “Cornell 7” case. The sordid tale of an Ivy League orgy that devolved into accusations of sexual assault prompted Marcotte to indict “Trumpism” as somehow explaining skeptical reactions to the story.
Before getting into the details of what happened to “Jane Doe” at a Cornell University frat house two years ago — or what Marcotte had to say about it — it is best to begin by recalling Marcotte’s history of error and folly. . . .

You can read the rest of my latest American Spectator column, which is 2,300 words, because Amanda Marcotte deserves it.

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