This response to the Tuesday PostEverything piece that used data — badly — to argue that women should get married in order to avoid being abused does a great job at explaining why the site should never have published the latter in the first place. But sorry, PostEverything:

For an advocate’s perspective on why the first piece should not have been published, read this.

Meanwhile, the Washington Post’s opinion page published a piece by Rep. Jackie Speier in response to George Will’s column that claimed being a rape victim on a college campus is a “coveted status.”

Will’s characterization of victimhood as a “coveted status that confers privileges” demonstrated a fundamental misunderstanding of the repercussions that victims can face in reporting attacks. Did he speak to any survivors? If he had, he would have learned that the “privilege” of being a survivor can mean having been assaulted by a classmate you trusted, ostracized for reporting or blamed by friends and family for what happened.

Post opinion editor Fred Hiatt defended Will to the International Business Times: “I think George’s column was well within bounds of legitimate debate on an important topic. … I welcomed his perspective and I think the ensuing debate, including responses we will publish, is very healthy and exactly what a good opinion section should be offering its readers.”

“Healthy” may be an odd word to describe a column that forced survivors of sexual violence to defend themselves online by sharing their own traumatic stories.