A Dangerous Time To Be A Man

We hear a lot about violence against women and related issues but this world has always been a dangerous place to be a man. We  don’t live as long as women and the overwhelming majority of workplace deaths are of men, always have been. There are though other ways in which men’s lives can be jeopardised, especially by women. A false allegation, including one that clearly has no merit may destroy a man’s reputation, lead to his imprisonment, or even his suicide. This can happen even to a very high status, ostensibly powerful man. 

One man who has seen his reputation destroyed totally undeservedly is Prince Andrew, whose only fault was to fail to sever his friendship with a man who was convicted in the first instance of a relatively minor crime, one that would not necessarily have been a crime in Britain. On the basis of this relationship and a well-publicised photograph – which even if genuine proves nothing – he has been accused of sexually abusing a young woman who with the aid of conniving lawyers and perhaps malicious entities unknown extracted an undisclosed sum of money from him.

The spurious nature of these allegations by the former Virginia Roberts has been thoroughly documented by a number of parties including two titled women. Her testimony was regarded as so unreliable that the lawyers who prosecuted Ghislaine Maxwell in New York declined to call her as a witness. Indeed, on her own admission there is credible evidence that rather than being a witness against Maxwell she should have been a co-defendant.

The  really shocking thing about this case though is that in spite of the easy refutation of her lies, the mainstream media continues to promote them.

There have though been some notable wins by oppressed men against malicious or simply demented women of late. In October 2017, feminist journalist Moira Donegan started a spreadsheet with an unprintable name that was used to libel men working across a broad field of media. These men were accused of everything from sexual harassment (which can mean almost anything) up to rape. Donegan is the woman who alluded to Depp v Heard as an orgy of misogyny, in spite of or perhaps because of the outcome in which it was proved conclusively that rather than Depp abusing Heard it was the other way round, and that Heard had also not only lied persistently, including on the witness stand, but had fabricated evidence of domestic abuse.

One of the men on Donegan’s list was author and film-maker Stephen Elliott. This month, after a years’ long battle, he settled the case against Donegan receiving a massive payout. It remains to be seen who coughed up the cash, probably some mangina male feminist rather than Donegan herself. Jimmy Dore demolished this ludicrous list in a YouTube segment on March 8.

Finally, this month saw the culmination of one of the most outrageous cases of serial false rape allegations in history when Eleanor Williams was given an eight and a half year sentence at Preston Crown Court by Mr Justice Altham. Cameras are generally not permitted in English courtrooms, but in this case the sentencing was carried out live on the Internet. You can find all manner of reports on the case now, but here is the full text of the sentencing remarks. Williams was actually convicted at the beginning of January and has spent considerable time in custody, so she could be walking the streets again as early as 2026. Three of her victims were said to have contemplated suicide and one came close to actually doing it. The scale of her falsifications beggars belief as do her self-inflicted injuries, although she is far from unique. Britain especially has seen some outrageous false rape allegations in recent years including by Rhiannon Brooker who targeted one victim inflicting injuries on herself and dripping lies to her circle of friends. She was given a three and a half year sentence in June 2014, and predictably at least one so-called anti-rape organisation sided with her.

Just as bad as or perhaps even worse than Brooker was Anisah Ahmed who framed fellow barrister and former (married) lover Iqbal Mohammed. She was initially given a life sentence albeit with a tariff of a mere four years, but in November 2021 this was reduced to ten years. In view of the public outrage she generated against innocent men in Barrow-in-Furness it is arguable that Williams should also have been given a life sentence, certainly eight and a half years is far too lenient, even allowing for her age.

Rhiannon Brooker’s victim spent 36 days behind bars; Williams victim Jordan Trengrove spent over 2 months on remand and unsurprisingly feels her sentence was far too lenient.

Amber Heard has been called the woman who killed #MeToo. Eleanor Williams will go down in history as the woman who buried it for good.