The Albanese leftist government has allocated almost 5 billion dollars to the feminists to persecute men and lock them up wherever possible. It is an irony that Janice Fiamengo’s latest comment has just appeared.
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The Victim is Always Female
The real (male) victims of false allegations are often quickly passed over
Janice Fiamengo, Sep 05, 2024
“Better ten innocent men go to jail than one potential female victim hesitate to come forward.”
At least, that seemed to be the consensus in 2017, when I first made this video. I’m not sure it’s still entirely true, though I do often hear the ‘Ultimately, this will hurt women …’ argument when the subject is male disadvantage or blatant anti-male injustice.
This video was originally part of the No Joke Janice video series, designed by my friend and producer Steve Brule as short audio commentary on current events. (Over time, many of the videos became indistinguishable from the main Fiamengo File videos, longer and more detailed—before they were all taken down by YouTube’s censors in one fell swoop. Steve is now re-posting many of them at Studio B.)
In the video, I used a couple of then-recent news items to analyze how media consistently put the spotlight on women as the primary victims of women’s false accusations against men. Even when a man had spent years in prison on a made-up charge, judges and pundits usually expressed concern about the negative effect on other potential female accusers (though evidence of this negative effect was never produced).
Re-watching the video yesterday, I wondered if it was still quite as true now as I believed it to be then. Is this an area in which men’s issues advocates have actually made a difference in putting the focus on harms to men? Or has feminist hysteria simply backfired on itself? Recently, Bettina Arndt hosted a conference on “Restoring the Presumption of Innocence” that brought many concerned Australian citizens together around the issue.