Our thanks to Nigel for this on the BBC, published a few hours ago. He writes:

“Though the BBC reports that after a year nothing provable has been found, and therefore the man is innocent, they gleefully rehearse the accusations and publish the DA’s comments on the “courage and resilience” of the accusers. So we’re left thinking he got off, but really he’s guilty. So with no evidence, no court case and no conviction, he’s condemned.

Sometimes its a bit more subtle, such as with Mason Greenwood in which always they mention the accusations and the fact the case was dropped. They never include that his accuser was his girlfriend Harriett Robson who has been with him ever since and they have two children. Which gives a different cast to the situation. Again leaving out this part of the story leaves with the impression Greenwood “got off” but really is guilty.

Manson in particular was the ideal “perpetrator” with his long career of cultivating an Alice Cooper persona of excess, an ideal “monster” making it all the more likely a year’s intensive investigation and publicity would turn up something from a very public lifestyle of sex, drugs and rock and roll. While Greenwood, like Ched Evans, fulfilled the stereotype of the vastly overpaid arrogant footy star who we love to hate.”

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Our thanks to Paolo for this video (31:41) of President Milei’s outstanding speech yesterday at the 55th WEF annual meeting. Milei starts speaking at 2:22. He is highly critical of the WEF, feminism, woke ideology, and so much more. He’s led off the stage by a women who thanks him, saying “… as everybody knows, this is an open and free platform…”. Comments on the video are turned off, predictably.

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My thanks to Dr Waiton, Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology, Abertay University, Dundee, for emailing me this, concerning his paper first published online in December 2023:

“I thought you would be interested in my paper that challenges feminist research into rape myths.

The key new finding demonstrates that much of this research itself shows that there is a danger of miscarriages of justice but that the researchers are blind to their own findings, largely because of what could be called an empathy gap regarding accused men in mock jury and potentially in real rape trial situations.

This is a link to the paper, any feedback would be appreciated https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13657127231217510?icid=int.sj-abstract.similar-articles.9“

Dr Waiton’s email address is s.waiton@abertay.ac.uk.

The full Abstract:

This paper examines the research by Fiona Leverick and demonstrates the methodological flaws in much of the ‘rape myth’ and mock jury research. Other ideas about rape myths and the ‘justice gap’ are explored and seen to be questionable. Furthermore, through a detailed examination of the rape myth acceptance scales, which Leverick describes as being ‘scientifically validated’, we trace the ideological and political-ethical nature of these scales and show a clear one-sidedness in how researchers have used them. Most particularly, we find that there is one-sidedness when it comes to the question of victim empathy. One result of this is that mock jury research has indicated that victim empathetic participants are finding individuals guilty of rape, despite the lack of evidence, and almost nothing has been said about the potential miscarriages of justice being demonstrated in these cases. The argument is thus made that rather than there being overwhelming evidence of rape myth prejudices amongst the public, there appears to be a one-sidedness amongst most rape myth researchers that is encouraging a sentiment of victim empathy that could distort the principles of justice regarding defendants being innocent until proven guilty based on a need to prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt.

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I thought it an appropriate time to link again to this (video, 18:08) from a little over three years ago. Almost 1.2 million views. Enjoy.

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“Mike Buchanan’s contribution is over 5:42 – 9:00. The presenter was joined in the studio by a mangina, Michael Conroy, founder of Men at Work https://menatworkcic.org/who-we-are/. He makes it clear in his contribution from 53:00 that he’s not in favour of the appointment of a Minister for Men.”

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