REVERSE REVERSE SEXISM: Claim: Female guards are prone to seduction, can’t be trusted. That or they’re malicious molesters. Pick one.

Last year, the Department of Justice completed its study of sexual abuse in adult prisons and juvenile facilities. It wasn’t a happy time for feminists. The studies showed that most of the sexual abuse of inmates is committed by guards and most of that is committed by female guards. . . .

So, what to do? Well, if you’re Adèle Mercier, you simply drop all pretense of intellectual integrity and claim that, in the case of boys abused in juvenile facilities, “they were asking for it.” . . .

So much for the juvenile facilities, but what about the adult ones? We now have our answer. It appears in a New Yorker article by Jeffrey Toobin.

Toobin peddles the standard feminist line that somehow the sexual contact between the men in cages and the women who held the keys was a matter of – what else? – male power and female helplessness. He doesn’t waste much time getting to the point. Just 600 words into a 5,200-word article Toobin says, “Cynical and devious men succeeded in dominating women who were nominally their keepers.”

“Nominally”? As if the cells and keys are merely nominal! If the truth is that prisoners are simply manipulating female guards, then the obvious course of action is to replace the guards with men who, unlike women, are actually in control of their mental faculties.

Earlier: Prison boss ‘had a two-year affair with Britain’s biggest gangster – in his own jail cell.

Related: Tavon White of Black Guerilla Family prison gang “fathered five children with four of the corrections officers”.