Two things to highlight here. Firstly, I’m all for ‘reasonable’. But Meyer has nothing at all to say in response to this toxic sentiment, which effectively says she shouldn’t exist as she feels herself to be. She allows the shield of speculation wrapped around it to completely occlude the issue being put forward, which is worse than ignoring the shield. I can sympathise with the impulse behind a lot of libertarian refusal to shut down uncomfortable debate, even if I think some of it’s misguided. But here we see that impulse overshooting, becoming a careless inability to confront something.