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then cite an MA THESIS in PSYCHOLOGY that doesn’t even say what you claim to think it says.

Only thing I knew of that even touched the topic - do you have a better source for someone looking into how other people perceive high or low levels of benevolent sexism in someone and how it relates to their presumptions regarding that person?

Also from the conclusions, since my direct quote of the abstract apparently doesn't reflect the paper well enough for you: "While men's endorsement of BS is viewed as a sign of a univalently positive attitude towards women, their rejection of BS is perceived as a sign of univalent sexist antipathy. Low BS men were judged as more hostile towards women than high BS men, suggesting that perceivers inferred that low BS men were indeed misogynists. Negative evaluations were reduced when men's rejection of BS was attributed to egalitarian values, supporting the hypothesis that ambiguity about the motivations for low BS in men was partially responsible for the attribution of hostile sexist attitudes to low BS men." I liked the phrasing in the abstract better, but you do you.

If I oppose a common but bullshit example of benevolent sexism (media minimizing wrongdoing when done by a woman), and your response is to invent an entire profile of me you can easily hate based on a single word choice (and it really does come off like your initial profiling was based heavily on my use of the word "malagency", despite it being very often descriptive of reality), it very much does seem like an example of what that thesis was seeing - I expressed a not just low-BS view but an anti-BS view, and your response was to attribute it to misogyny. It felt appropriate to bring it up.

Going back to the original case, go look up other reporting on the case, without specifically searching for the use of the word "rape". Note that the Guardian is one of the only outlets to call it what it is, while the vast majority of other sources refer to her as "having sex" or similar softening language. That just isn't done when it's an adult male and an underage female, unless you have the sort of wealth and/or status that lets you buy that kind of softening language.

And I say AI confidently

...and you would be wrong. Just because I'm aware of a somewhat obscure thesis that shows something interesting, doesn't mean an AI chatbot was involved (I actually saved a copy of that one when I first read it years ago, and then Googled the title and author when writing the post to find a current link). Part of me wants to look up the value for em dash now and just start sprinkling them throughout just to fuck with you (you know, cause AI is fond of the em dash)...

You seem to have built an entire profile of me that you are very confidently very wrong about based on very, very little.

I also notice you didn't engage with anything else.

To be fair, you don't want to engage with the hypothetical because you and I both know of pairs of groups for A and B where you'd want to say those gasp are evidence of As being oppressed and also pairs of groups for A and B where those same gaps exist (and some are even wider than the previous case) where you'd want to attribute them to literally anything but that because your underlying worldview requires reality to conform to the prescribed hierarchies which means the need for an apologetic, which would prove my point. For anyone not knowing what I'm talking about, that same series of relationships between A and B show when A and B are black and white folks, respectively but also when they are men and women, respectively with the sex gap for some of those measures being larger than the race gap, though both apply to any given individual (and yes this means black men in particular get screwed by the criminal justice system being on the wrong end of both racial and sex gaps).

You don't want to engage with me asking your opinion about the 2018 KY child custody law because the problem of course with the 2018 KY custody law and it's rebuttable presumption of shared custody is it is on it's face the least sex discriminatory policy attempted to date but who supported it and who opposed it is hard to stomach for a certain sort of person.

You didn't engage with anything I said about Koss either. Which ultimately is built on the notion that Koss has expressed views that are...let's just say unfortunate...for anyone who wants to consider male victims and female perps seriously. Since a lot of her work is foundational to sexual assault research, her leanings have also left a mark on that research (see things like often classifying common ways women sexually assault men in subcategories that make comparing it to men sexually assaulting women less intuitive). It's not all bad though, things like "date rape" are useful terms and I actually like her talk about "unacknowledged victims" who essentially mentally frame what happened to them in a way to not make themselves victims, though I suspect she'd disagree with my view that this impacts male victims a great deal more than most think because of underlying social views about who perpetrators and victims can be making what happened to them not something they can readily identify for what it is.