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
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.