I long ago made a choice to err (if I'm erring) on the side of believing women.

Her apology is in no way equal to the comments she made and this is her response to a recent tweet of his.

And as for you Anna Merlan, you and your Masters Degree from Columbia should resign for your part in this.

I don't see much gloating. And, even if he were, he could be forgiven for gloating about being vindicated in the face of a nasty and personal attack on his professional integrity.

No hard feelings? She couldn't even be gracious in her tweeted response to you. I get that you're taking the high road, but you're letting her off way to easy.

You don't see any problems with calling someone an "idiot" and questioning their journalistic integrity when they're right and you're wrong?

What's saddest is the fact that this story blew up in the author's face has reinforced the "us vs them" mentality in the comment section (e.g. "Boy, I bet the MRA crowd loves this!")

Go read what she wrote about the authors and editors in the original article and the comments section again and then come back and explain to me on what planet those things should have been written. You're really reaching to defend an author who was clearly in the wrong.

Here it is.

Are you kidding me? Go read her initial article again.

Wow, did she actually right that? Because that's just unbelievably childish.

This is really bad, but a few things worth remembering

Anyone who thinks that Anna's apology is sincere really ought to go back and read what she wrote in the original article and the comments underneath, not just to random posters but to the editors and writers whose work she was questioning.

Correction: A previous version of this post incorrectly said Richard Bradley is retired. In fact, he is the current editor-in-chief of Worth. I regret the error. This is what a professional journalistic correction looks like, in the unlikely event that any editors at Worth or writers at Reason ever need to issue…

I love how your take away from this is, "Ohmigod, we were wrong and now people are going to bring it up all the time" rather than "Ohmigod, we were wrong, how can we avoid making the same mistake in the future?"

Really? Go back and read what she wrote about the people she just apologized to and tell me if you feel her apology carries the same weight as her original insults.

To be fair to MacKay, although not to excuse him, Stronach isn't exactly someone I'd go too far out of my way to defend. As gross as what what MacKay said is, Stronach is an opportunistic heiress who I'm sure gives as good as she gets.

So, you think she's a liar? And that you have a better handle on her situation than she does? Interesting.

What's to figure out? If you click through to the article and read what she has to say, she's pretty explicit about what she thinks. She says she's not in an abusive relationship, that she doesn't consider herself a victim and that this was a one time thing.

For anyone who doesn't know, watching a game in Percival Molson Memorial Stadium is great. It's a really nice stadium.