Displaying items by tag: sexual abuse
The ‘I hear, I listen, I believe’ mantra
The #MeToo movement has claimed some high profile scalps. I believe you - always - they say. Some of the accused are innocent, and the legal battles continue. Law Professor Gabriel Moens has explored the implications. Originally published at The Epoch Times.
What the Sexual Revolution Has Wrought
Toxic masculinity? Try toxic culture. The revolution of the 1960s has taken us all to some depraved and degrading places. As we are currently reminded by very, very unedifying events. Yet people are talking about the wrong problem.
Fembots and Christians
The MeToo brigade were, sadly, not done with the vicious pursuit of Cardinal Pell. A year on, they are back for another Christian. Guilt by accusation, admittedly dished out with ideological selectivity, is in season again. Destroy. Destroy. Destroy. A version of this article appeared in The Spectator Australia of 13 March 2021.
When Judges Get It Wrong - the Case of John Fleming
After Weinstein, Why Not Chastity?
The lugubrious profile of Henry Lawson, with his gigantic handlebar moustache, graced Australian $10 notes for decades. Lawson was a 19th Century writer who wrote about “the bush”, the rough life of the farming and mining settlements of early Australia. He’s not known much abroad, but a handful of his short stories are truly world class. He’s a kind of Down Under version of Mark Twain.
