No, not the erstwhile Intellectual Dark Web, subsequently disbanded because Sam Harris can’t get over his extreme case of Trump Derangement Syndrome. Instead, Jenna Hates wants to cancel the International Women’s Day (today, by the way).
As many of Jenna Hates columns often do, this one takes three or more seemingly unrelated elements and then stitches them together in a quilt of misandry using a thread of logical fallacies.
Marvel at the dexterity with which she simultaneously claims an alleged rapist is innocent until proven guilty but then points out the chances of a woman ever making a false accusation of rape are minuscule, to the point of being nearly impossible.
Actually, if you read her column carefully, she doesn’t even offer him the olive branch of presumed innocence before chucking this feel-pinion in:
Just for the record, the director of Monash University’s Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre, Kate Fitz-Gibbon, tells me it is rare – very rare – for a woman to make a false allegation of rape.
Got any data to back that assertion up?
Nah, no need for academics to bother with supporting evidence when making claims of truth.
Fortunately, here in the real world, we have access to search engines which suggest somewhere between 2 to 10% of rape allegations are fabricated (source 1, source 2, source 3).
So, we could “believe all women” and send a lot of innocent people to jail, or we could, I dunno, use the existing legal processes to test these claims and try our hardest to maintain some level of justice and standards for society to operate within.
Jenna Hates is not so concerned about that idea however, because all the circumstantial evidence points to Porter being a member of the political party she hates Nazi scumbag.
Exhibit 1 – He made a political decision Jenna Hates, erm, hates:
While he was minister for social services, he oversaw the destruction of the national sexual assault and counselling hotline, 1800 RESPECT, moving it from a women-led service to one which became part of Medibank, a company now profiting from rape.
By the way, does anyone else wonder whether Medibank’s legal team are planning on challenging that allegation? Get the popcorn in.
By that logic, Celgene, the manufacturer of Revlimid, is profiting from cancer. Don’t hold your breathe for the class action law case.
Exhibit 2 – There are allegations of his philandering:
It also doesn’t help his brand that he was one of the politicians pinged on the Four Corners episode Inside the Canberra Bubble, reported by Louise Milligan, where it was alleged he was seen “kissing and cuddling” a young woman staffer at a popular bar.
One can’t be sure what Jenna Hates hates the most about this; the alleged infidelity, the kissing, the age of the woman or the popularity of the bar?
Exhibit 3 – He’s had failed marriages:
In the meantime, he has had two marriages fall apart. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
One feels there may be an element of projection going on there. Has Jenna Hates loved and been rejected by any chance? Say it ain’t so.
Bill’s Opinion
As commentator Michael van der Riet infers on a reply to an earlier post, if you are prepared to suspend your standards simply because a convenient stick to beat an opponent presents itself, you have rejected the right to be taken seriously in future.
But yes, Jenna Hates, he definitely did it because he’s been divorced twice and changed the funding model for a support help line.
Burn him and anyone else who reminds me of my ex-husband!
Jenna: The alleged victim is no longer alive to make her case.
I know, I know… formal penal colony, maybe the common law got turned ’round between Merrie Olde and the antipodes, by Jenna, dear – IT ISN’T UP TO THE FUCKING VICTIM TO ‘MAKE HER CASE!’ Sorry for shouting, but that’s just wrong. It is up to the police services to gather evidence and present it to the Crown, and then up to the Crown – if they think there is a winnable case – to make the case and carry the burden of the prosecution. Otherwise, you blathering git, there’d be no trials for murder, now would there?
The investigating and evaluation of the evidence was apparently done 30 some-odd years ago, and between them the police and the Crown didn’t think they could meet the required standard of proof. That’s it, Jenna – we’re done and dusted.
Wife No. 2 was/is a couple of years older than I am/than me. (But still a hottie of note let me hasten to add.) A few months after the split she encountered me at a New Year’s do with another lady. “She’s very young, isn’t she?” said my ex. “Yes she is, isn’t she?” I said contentedly.
Yes – your reproach is my achievement, right?