by Wendy McElroy

About the author: Wendy McElroy is the editor of the website ifeminists.com and a research fellow at the Independent Institute, a libertarian think tank. She is also the editor of Freedom, Feminism, and the State, a historical overview of individualist feminism in America.

The mother of all feminist myths on campuses today is that one in four female students has been the victim of rape or attempted rape. So states the conservative Independent Women’s Forum [IWF] in a recent advertisement in student newspapers across the country. The ad referred to feminism as a “cult” and warned that anyone who believed two or more of the ten listed myths might need “deprogramming.” The backlash was swift. Women’s rights groups at [University...