Talk:Davidson Nicol

Rape accusation

In her 2018 book A Politically Incorrect Feminist: Creating a Movement with Bitches, Lunatics, Dykes, Prodigies, Warriors, and Wonder Women, feminist writer Phyllis Chesler alleges that Davidson Nicol raped her in 1979, when she was working for him. I gather from the Talk section on the Phyllis Chesler page that this accusation has been included in the Davidson Nicol page in the past, but has been removed. It seems like an important omission.Jhlechner (talk) 18:43, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

I do think there's a case for including it, insofar as it is a book authored by someone notable enough to have their own Wikipedia article and was published by a mainstream publishing house (St. Martin's Press.) On the other hand, the particular way it was included was wrong; the text flat out declared that Nicol "was well known as a serial harasser and rapist." Chesler's book simply isn't sufficient by Wikipedia's standards to make such a definite claim in the article. So I gave it a more neutral wording ("American professor Phyllis Chesler wrote in her memoirs that Nicol sexually harassed other women and had raped her.") The editor who removed it wrote that Chesler's claims are libelous, but Nicol has been dead for over 20 years. --Ismail (talk) 07:00, 14 December 2020 (UTC)