Following the unraveling of Rolling Stone’s narrative regarding the reported gang rape of a woman named Jackie by fraternity members at the University of Virginia, radical feminists (who were a little too upset at the prospect that such a horrific rape didn’t occur) rushed to defend the false story as essentially fake but accurate.

Slate’s Amanda Marcotte blamed the fact that people wanted to make sure a brutal gang rape actually occurred before damaging the lives of multiple people on “rape apologists” who believed that if “they can ‘discredit’ one rape story, that means no other rape stories can be true, either.”