Laura Perrins’s piece on TCW today. I think it’s a dreadful piece, man-blaming and woman-excusing, but the comments stream is well worth catching, much of it critical of the article. I’ve posted the following comments, they were immediately (automatically?) held for moderation, and will hopefully appear in due course. They take up the remainder of this blog piece:

“It says a lot about him even before we get to what he did to Nikita Hand, namely pin her to a bed, put her in choke hold, rape her and caused such brutal injury she needed invasive surgical intervention.”

ALLEGEDLY. This whole article is driven by the conviction that men need to take responsibility for their own actions and inactions (which is fair enough) BUT also for women’s actions and inactions (which isn’t fair enough – do women want to be treated as adults or children, or does that depend on the context? A rhetorical question, of course.). Women mustn’t be held accountable for their actions including those following drug taking (alcohol and cocaine in this case, I believe).

On our website we have a constant stream of articles about women not facing punishment for criminal actions, the latest a 27yo woman who walked free after trying to smuggle £150,000 worth of cannabis into the country to pay off personal debts resulting from living beyond her means.

From a report in the Irish Times:

“Following the Garda investigation into Hand’s claims, a file was sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) who decided in June 2020 there was insufficient evidence to prosecute. Hand, with the support of Dublin Rape Crisis Centre, sought a review but the decision was upheld.

The DPP, who carried out the review herself, told Hand a high standard of proof, beyond reasonable doubt, applies in a criminal case and she considered there was “no reasonable prospect” of conviction of either McGregor or Lawrence.”

So the woman took out a civil action, where the burden of proof is lower, to get McGregor convicted and get her money. It’s long overdue for people to have anonymity in relation to sex offence charges until and unless convicted. Doubtless many men have paid out huge sums in response to threats of allegations, Donald Trump included.

William Collins in his epic book “The Empathy Gap: Male Disadvantages and the Mechanisms of Their Neglect” (ebook under £5.00) reveals (using only official stats) that 77 per cent of rape allegations made by women to the police are false.

We’ve published two blog pieces on the McGregor case. One was titled: Janet Bloomfield: “13 reasons women lie about rape” (and its possible relevance to the Conor McGregor case).

Mike Buchanan

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