Our thanks to Nigel for this interesting piece on the Alexander Rogers suicide case by Joanna Williams for Spiked. He wrote, in response to yesterday’s blog piece about the evil Alison Saunders:
“Saunders carried on Starmer’s “believe” policies which meant concealing evidence from the defence in sexual assault trials. The depth of the difficulty, and the power women have, is illustrated by the details of the Alexander Rogers case.
As details emerged the mechanism used by “B”, his accuser, are laid bare -“Over the following couple of days, B told several male friends that the encounter had made her feel uncomfortable.” Spreading the rumour resulted in an assault on Rogers by her ex-boyfriend and others shunning him. In other words she used that age-old approach of getting men to “deal with” a man she wanted to hurt. Using the very deep protective, towards females, masculinity mobilized by her supposed discomfort to punish Mr. Rogers. A technique ranging from the sister getting her brother into trouble with their parents to the feminists “gendered” application of the law supposedly based on the need to protect all women.
It’s a neat trick, the accusation is never tested or even made specific, the culpable actions; the assault on Mr. Rogers and the shunning are not the actions of “B” but of those men she’s manipulated and “B” never has to make the accusation in a way in can be tested. “B” like the oh-so-innocent sister walks off satisfied. One man is dead and another has assaulted the dead man while others perhaps feel guilt at their actions.
“Combined with campus cancel culture, accusations of sexually inappropriate behaviour from women now have the power to condemn and turn individuals [J4MB: she means men] into social pariahs.” A chilling conclusion if one considers how close we came to replicating the situation in the USA where universities created kangaroo courts with powers to officially punish students (expulsions, stripping them of academic awards, public humiliation).”
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