If you never listened to the podcast, how can you think the backlash against it went too far? The podcast was extremely damaging and painful for anyone who’s had experience of rape.
There’s this awful false narrative that misogynists like to spread (now that rape is being spoken about more openly), that women are hysterical/imagine they were raped/pretend they were raped and that this is somehow a common thing and something which we must watch out for (which was one of the main themes of that podcast- “ladies, we should be careful about using the word rape; what about our sons, our brothers?!”- assuming, as a base line, that women do throw around the word rape.
Like imagine what kind of mind frame you must have to assume that).
Over 90% of rapes are not reported to the police. The stats are heavily weighted in favour of the perpetrator, always have been, probably always will be, so please don’t suggest (with your one example, which is the exception; I’ve never, ever heard a comment like that before, yet I know several friends who’ve been raped and assaulted) that this is some kind of problem. However, it’s not fair that you don’t feel like you can discuss your views on the topic either - we should all be able to have a (responsible) discussion.
The ladies were misinformed (to put it kindly) and their views about rape and rape victims, misogynistic (to put it mildly).
Finally, they never apologised. After being forced to, they made a half arsed excuse that they were trolled into creating the episode by the infamous Ramona and some more half hearted ramblings about growth. You can tell they really blamed feminists and “cancel culture” for the whole thing, are raging about it to this day (their bitterness against feminists is so cringe) and I do believe they secretly stand behind what they said on the podcast, reading between the lines.