I remark again that most men have little idea of the feminist hatred they’ll meet if ever they end up before the bench. Women, or more accurately, feminists, have possession of our legal system. That will get worse because universities are churning out more female lawyers than male lawyers. Why should that matter, the average man will ask? The law is the law.
The explanation is provided by the crucial distinction Janice Fiamengo and Helen Andrews make between female and male judgment: males judge on the basis of raw logic and truth: females judge on the basis of empathy. Helen Andrews puts it this way: females ‘value empathy over rationality; safety over risk; conformity and cohesion over competition and hierarchy.’
Bettina Arndt gives a graphic illustration below of the ordeal a male will likely endure if ever brought before the courts by an accusing female. All the sympathy is for the female; none whatever for the male. It is not a question of fact and rationality, but of feeling and female solidarity.
Scottish Judges
A Grim Verdict on Scottish Justice
Bettina Arndt, Quadrant, 27 Feb 22026
Across the world, feminist legal academics are bullying politicians and legislators into adopting new measures aimed at increasing rape convictions. The result, year after year, is justice systems increasingly tilted to favour accusers, undermining the right to a fair trial for men, and increasing the likelihood that innocent men will be convicted.
Scotland’s judges were doing well in this macabre race to the bottom, but now they have suffered a setback. A UK Supreme Court has warned that Scottish courts are violating a defendant’s right to a fair trial. Scottish lawyers are claiming this could mean hundreds of men in prison will be lining up for appeals or possible compensation for false imprisonment.
It isn’t so much the laws which have been at fault but the way Scottish judges are choosing to interpret them – namely by denying juries critical evidence that might have been used to exonerate the accused men.
They have taken rape shield laws, designed to protect the accuser from humiliating questions about their sexual history or character, and used these to exclude evidence critical to an understanding of what actually happened between the two people.
A leading Scottish barrister, Thomas Ross KC, has been outspoken about what is going on there. He’s in a unique position to expose this injustice because, after handling over 100 rape cases, in 2022 he threw in the towel because he felt it was no longer possible to properly defend accused men. “I was just banging my head against a brick wall and getting nowhere.” Ross decided he’d be better off walking away from this territory so he could speak publicly about what is going on.