Monthly Archives: February 2025

Australia, Feminism, Law, Media, Men

False claims – come and get it!

Wicked Riches

– Victims’ compensation rewards liars and cheats.

Bettina Arndt, Feb 27, 2025

What a story! Our media was agog at the recent NSW police announcement that they had exposed a $1.3 billion scheme for making fraudulent child sexual abuse claims. All the major media outlets excitedly reported on this huge “claim farming” scheme which recruited former young offenders, prison inmates and school students to file fake sex abuse compensation claims. At one prison, a third of the inmates had submitted claims.

The investigation revealed 4,000 faked claims, with the many law firms involved paying the claim farmers a benefit of about $2000 for each claim. One group of claims farmers apprehended in the police raid was found to have 100 applications ready to go – so they missed out on $30 million through the police intervention.

Big numbers, shocking scandal. And a mighty blow to the feminist narrative claiming false rape claims hardly ever happen. Here’s solid evidence that they are absolutely rampant, particularly when it comes to raking in money from our shockingly slack victims’ compensation schemes.

Across the country we have victims’ compensation schemes which require absolutely no proof to achieve a payout. All that is needed is a quick trip to a police station to make a statement. As I have reported many times, most police are no longer investigating sexual abuse claims. The complainant’s statement is taken as gospel. And then our government bodies pay out.

Even if the matter ends up in a court, the woman is often given the payout years before any decision is made about the validity of the claim. And get this, she has no obligation to return the money if the court decides the evidence supporting it doesn’t stack up.

But if the accused man is found guilty, he has to repay the government for the victim’s payout.

What about the victims of false claims?

The most extraordinary thing about the whole claim farming scandal is that not one journalist thought to ask questions about the men being falsely accused.

The only mention in the media coverage was a press release from the Independent Education Union (IEU) stating that “claim farming” was a substantial problem in nongovernment schools. In 2017 Australia held a Royal Commission into historical sexual abuse in institutions, where shocking abuse was found to have occurred in some school settings.

Read the rest here . . .

Feminism, Media, Men, Radicalism

DEI is killing people

How female bureaucrats refuse to target male suicide

Bettina Arndt Feb 14, 2025

Wow. After all those years of seeing discrimination against men becoming ever more blatant and intense, who would have thought that one crazy dude in the White House could threaten this highly successful feminist enterprise.

We will have to see how it all pans out, but Trump’s decision to eliminate all government diversity programs is causing ructions in the mighty international DEI industry which has spent decades creating programs and policies designed to ensure women are advantaged over men, particularly white men, at every turn.

Note that Trump’s Executive Order 14171 is titled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity.” Even though most of the howls of outrage from woke folk is focussed on the impact of racial affirmative action policies, merit-based opportunity would be a real novelty for white men working in colleges and government organisations across America who are used to being at the bottom of the heap.

A report from the American ABC shows no interest in the notion of “merit-based opportunity” but chooses instead to wail about the impact on a young female researcher working on intestinal parasites in India – supported by diversity-based funding which is now under threat. The news story reports on legal challenges to Trump’s Executive Order and quotes a defiant professor determined to fight back, “We’re doing DEI whether they like it or not.”

Well, professor, most people don’t like it. The endless discrimination against men is far from popular – look at that strong vote from young men which helped sweep Trump into power. Australia’s Opposition Leader Peter Dutton named the problem in a recent podcast, saying young men were feeling “disenfranchised and ostracised”, and fed up with being passed over for jobs.

As Dutton put it, “They’re pushing back and saying, ‘well, why am I being overlooked at work for a job, you know, three jobs running when I’ve got, you know, a partner at home, and she’s decided to stay at home with three young kids, and I want a promotion at work so that I can help pay the bills at home.’”

DEI is responsible for men finding themselves pushed out. And now, finally they are allowed to complain about it. With the new zeitgeist encouraging people to give voice to their discontent about diversity programs, the public mood has even forced corporate America to take notice.

Look what’s happening in the corporate world where so many big companies are now choosing to scale back their DEI programs. Last year a host of companies moved in this direction: American Airlines, Boeing, Ford, Harley-Davidson, Lowe’s, Nissan, Walmart. Amazon, META and McDonalds took similar measures just last month. Even the public broadcaster, PBS, has got rid of their DEI department. Now that’s a real turn-about for this huge anti-male propaganda unit.

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Catholicism, Culture, Feminism, My books

Status update – writing

I am presently occupied with writing and revising THE COUNTERCULTURE GODDESS, Book 4 of the SIXTIES series, which is (hopefully) ready for a June release on AMAZON and D2D.

I have little time for other writing. So, I have resigned myself to short comments with relevant links until I have more time for longer comments.

A lot of people visit my websites. It would help if you bought one of my (reasonably priced) books whose stories focus on social and political issues.

Culture, Feminism, Islam, Political correctness, Radicalism

How the feminist cancer is destroying a once great nation

The latest article from Janice Fiamengo’s Substack shows how deeply Great Britain is riddled with the man-hating cancer of feminism. In Australia, the feminist cancer has not penetrated as deeply as in Great Britain, but it is on its way.

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Feminism and the Grooming Gangs

Why elite feminists prefer to target white men as the UK’s primary sexual predators

Janice Fiamengo, Feb 08, 2025

Grooming Gang Scandal: Why is the UK government responsible for this nationwide horror? | Media Scan

Just don’t ask where all this outrage for rape victims was when a jury in a civil trial concluded Farage’s good friend Donald Trump had sexually abused the writer E. Jean Carroll, or when Trump proposed Matt Gaetz—who was facing allegations (which he denied) of sex with a minor—for attorney general.

Gaby Hinsliff, “This is how the grooming scandal is being weaponized”

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For decades, most prominent feminists in the United Kingdom kept quiet about the Pakistani Muslim grooming gangs, preoccupied with the gender pay gap, the nefarious influence of Andrew Tate, or the need to criminalize “persistent staring.”

When they do address the issue, their response is to make bizarre equivalencies, as above, and to insist that all men are equally to blame for child rape and exploitation.

In a recent article for The Spectator, for example, British feminist advocate Julie Bindel, one of the few feminists who did write about the scandal in earlier years, was toeing the party line. In the final paragraph of her article (“Grooming gang victims are still being ignored”), she expressed the conviction that

“We need to see a wider acknowledgement of the scale of ‘grooming gangs’ beyond racial or cultural lines, because child sexual abuse has been going on for centuries and there will be plenty more victims until the police really address the issues.”

In Bindel’s formulation, a particular sex crime is universalized as “child sexual abuse” to smear all men in all times.

Bindel even suggested that white girls had been receiving rather too much attention while “black and minority” victims have had their experiences “obliterated by a narrative that portrays ‘grooming gangs’ as exclusively Pakistani Muslim men abusing white girls.” That dishonest sentence, in which the word exclusively is made to carry a heavy load of implication, is the only time in the entire article that Bindel uses the words Pakistani or Muslim. (No one credible has ever suggested that only Pakistani Muslims were involved or that only white girls were victimized.)

As a feminist of the Left, Bindel had always treated the grooming gangs story with caution. In “Mothers of Prevention,” an article she published in The Sunday Times back in 2007, she gave the names of convicted abusers and identified them as Pakistani Muslim, but she pressed home the point that “One of the many tragedies resulting from this phenomenon is how it is fueling racism and mistrust of whites towards Pakistanis where little existed previously.” Perhaps the girls raped at 12 and pimped out at 13 would have been better off if there had been a bit more mistrust and “racism” in their communities. And given how many people in positions of power worked together to protect the perpetrators, the racism seems to have been solely directed against white Britons, especially against the parents who pleaded in vain for the criminals to be stopped.

Read the rest here . . .