OPINION
I often wonder if the feminist left believes the ludicrous nonsense that they do, only because they judge everyone else by the toxic men they surround themselves with. Who can forget, after all, the sight of Harvey Weinstein marching against sexual assault at the 2017 Women’s March at Sundance? One of the most gigantic red flags for any woman ought to be a self-described “male feminist”.
But they’re none too smart, these feminists. At least, not judging by their own propaganda. After all, why would any feminist go within cooee of a university campus, even to collect that useless Gender Studies degree, if they really believed their own bullshit?
“All of us women who have attended tertiary facilities in Australia know someone who has been raped while at university,” pronounced Dr Monique Ryan. Well, perhaps in your circles, Monique.
Wentworth’s Allegra Spender was on ABC radio jumping on board the ABC’s latest propaganda claim – that 275 people are sexually assaulted on our campuses each week.
Which, if true, would put university campuses somewhere on par with the Congo, where rape is a long-standing weapon of war.
As you no doubt guessed, it’s not even remotely true.
The ABC attributes the statistic to the 2021 National Student Safety Survey. Yet Universities Australia, who ran the survey, said the 275-a-week claim was not in their survey results.
So, either the ABC was too stupid and lazy to check their own supposed sources, or they’re willingly participating in the lie. A lie peddled by flappy-armed misandrists belonging to an activist group calling itself “End Rape on Campus” (EROC).
The manufactured statistic was derived from an extremely dubious statistical manoeuvre, specifically warned against by the Australian Human Rights Commission which ran the previous survey. The Commission stressed the respondents were “self-selected students who were motivated to respond” which means these responses “cannot be regarded as representative of the Australian university student population as a whole.”
A self-selected survey is a bigger red flag than a male feminist. What it invariably means is that the survey has been bombarded by activists on a mission and, almost certainly, sock-puppets.
The next most important thing to look for in a survey is definitions.
You, I, or most normal people would almost certainly regard “sexual assault” as, if not full-blown rape, then at least forcing unwanted intrusive, sexual contact on a person.
Note that this calculation was based on the tiny 1.1% of students answering the survey who claimed to have been sexually assaulted in the previous year – using the broadest possible definition which included any sexual contact such as being kissed as well as any sexual activity involving drugs or alcohol. (About half of these assaults weren’t actually on campus but took place in private homes, clubs and other outside locations. So, they weren’t campus sexual assaults at all.
The fact that the statistic is clearly bogus is of no importance to your average left-feminist. The important thing is shouting it as loud as possible and hoping that everyone else will believe it.
This manufactured statistic was endlessly quoted by not only the ABC but also Greens Senator Larissa Waters, and all manner of feminist groups who have jumped on the bandwagon to attack the universities.
But, of course, our fearless universities aren’t about to buckle like craven, bootlicking cowards, surely?
Universities quake in fear that they will find themselves in this cruel spotlight, under attack from the feminist rabble for some claimed failure in their efforts to keep women safe. Such is the state of terror that one university recently banned the use of their normal email system for discussion of SASH matters. All such communication must now be printed off and put in the little yellow envelopes to be delivered by internal couriers!
Is it any wonder that many of the bosses of our university are ready to throw in the towel? They’ve realised that no matter what they do the activists will cook up more manufactured statistics to claim there’s still a problem. “Many believe the pendulum has swung too far already,” says a senior administrator who wanted to remain anonymous, pointing to recent prominent campus rape cases which ended up being thrown out of court, with the universities admonished for damaging young men’s lives by automatically believing dubious complainants.
One such case, recently reported by The BFD, concerned Alex Matters.
Matters has been found not guilty of all charges and little Ms Advocate exposed as a lying, manipulative vixen.
And then there was the harrowing tale published last month in the Weekend Australian about a Sydney University student, Jacob, who also had his life destroyed by false rape allegations. Jacob’s lawyer, Sydney SC Tom Molomby was scathing about the woman who fabricated the accusations against him, describing her as “Ruthless. Remorseless. Shameless. Calculating. Cruel” […]
After a 14-day trial, costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, the jury took two hours to find Jacob not guilty. The judge required the prosecution to pay defence costs – showing this case should not have ended up in court. Jacob had been thrown out of the university right after the accusations were made.
Bettina Arndt
And was the “ruthless, remorseless, shameless, calculating, cruel” woman charged with perjury, lying to police, making false statements? Don’t hold your breath.
And, if you’re a man — stay well away from universities.