Remember Jian Ghomeshi? He was the famous-in-Canada guy who was accused of rape and acquitted in a trial earlier this year. Some people might conclude that a “not guilty” verdict means that Jian Ghomeshi was, you know, not guilty. However, feminists in Canada had decided Jian Ghomeshi was guilty long before the trial began. To feminists, his acquittal meant that Jian Ghomeshi got away with it.

If you believe what feminists wrote about the Jian Ghomeshi case, rape is basically legal in Canada. Getting a rape conviction in Canada is so difficult, according to feminists, that Canadian women are raped routinely and the reaction from Canadian law enforcement is, “Tough luck.”

Because I hate Canada quite generally, I’m willing to believe this.

My attitude toward elite universities is the same. When I see feminists protesting about “rape culture” at Harvard or Yale, my reaction is to figure they’re right. Those boys with perfect GPAs and high SAT scores paying $50,000 a year to attend elite schools? Rapists, all of them.

The Ivy League Is Decadent and Depraved, as I keep saying, and I’m always willing to believe any accusation against a Harvard student. Rape, arson, kidnapping, murder, bestiality, treason — guilty! Hang ’em!

Canadian men are probably at least as bad as Harvard students, or perhaps even worse, which may explain why Canadian feminists are so angry. Anne Thériault is a Canadian feminist who declared Jian Ghomeshi guilty of rape as soon as the accusation was made:

I swear to God if one more person says “presumption of innocence” to me, I’m going to flip a table. At this point, the words have ceased to mean anything other than, “Stop talking about this thing that I don’t want you to talk about.” . . .

No one seems to care about how supporting Ghomeshi will influence other women who want to come forward about being raped or assaulted. . . .

Ghomeshi is, in the eyes of the law, innocent until proven guilty. This is an important part of our judicial system, and it should be respected. However — and I can’t emphasize this enough — the presumption of innocence should extend to all parties involved. The presumption of innocence does not mean that you should assume that these women are lying about being assaulted until proven otherwise.

Here is the fulcrum on which the whole matter balances.

Unlike most other crimes — armed robbery, possession of narcotics, vehicular homicide, etc. — rape accusations are frequently “he said/she said” disputes, where there is no corroborating evidence or testimony by witnesses to help us ascertain the truth. From the feminist perspective, however, “reasonable doubt” means that women are accused of lying and so, according to Anne Thériault, the accusation of rape should be considered tantamount to proof of rape. Guilty! Hang ’em!

The Canadian feminist lynch mob was ready to see Jian Ghomeshi go to prison, and infuriated when the judge acquitted him.

Jian Ghomeshi’s progressive persona

was the perfect cover for his abuse

That headline on a column by Canadian feminist Meghan Murphy summarizes the most bitter aspect of the Ghomeshi case for them. Ghomeshi was a sort of hero to a generation of young progressive women in Canada, and he had no shortage of female companionship. He was a known womanizer, even more notorious in that regard than Bill Clinton. When multiple women accused Jian Ghomeshi of sexual assault, the case was not really just about him, but also about every other womanizer with a “progressive persona.” Feminists are to progressive guys what wildebeests are to lions on the Katanga Plateau, i.e., their natural prey.

Most conservatives suspect that the only reason guys get into progressive politics is because such movements attract a lot of slutty feminists who are fools for any dude who can talk a good line about “social justice.” And the reason feminists hate men so much, we suspect, is because so many feminists have had the experience of being used and discarded by the Jian Ghomeshi type of progressive dude. How many Canadian feminists did Ghomeshi have sex with? As many as he wanted, basically. The number’s probably more than 100, if not 200 or 300, because Jian Ghomeshi was a progressive celebrity in Canada, and feminists in Canada are certainly no less promiscuous than feminists anywhere else.

Because feminists are so often used by guys in “pump-and-dump” hookups — no romance, no callback, no respect — they tend to become embittered toward men quite generally, and this fuels a vindictive rage: Men must be punished to appease her wrath for the wrongs she has suffered. Therefore, whenever a rape case makes headlines anywhere, feminists everywhere demand a guilty verdict and a maximum penalty. There has never been an innocent man falsely accused, feminists expect us to believe, and doubt is impermissible. All skeptics are “rape truthers,” a term coined by Amanda Marcotte to describe the widespread reaction to the Rolling Stone gang-rape hoax at the University of Virginia.

Canadian progressives are scum, and I wouldn’t care if Jian Ghomeshi had been sentenced to life in prison. Frankly, if a mob of feminists kidnapped Ghomeshi, doused him in gasoline and set him ablaze, his fiery death would not bother me at all. One less Canadian on the planet? Good news! However, the immolation of Jian Ghomeshi would make Anne Thériault happy, and anything that makes Anne Thériault happy is wrong, so I guess there’s at least one reason why I should hope he doesn’t die in a fire.

Do you see the futility of this feminist Us-vs.-Them worldview, where all men are oppressors and all women are victims? The judge in the Ghomeshi case did not find the testimony of the accusers credible and, in fact, his ruling pointed out that Ghomeshi’s accusers were caught telling lies. The judge warned against the “dangerous false assumption that sexual assault complainants are always truthful.” This prompted Anne Thériault to declare her continued belief in Ghomeshi’s guilt, blaming the discrepancies in his accusers’ memories on “trauma.” All women tell the truth all the time, according to Anne Thériault and all men are rape suspects whose guilt is certain as soon as an accusation is made. The only way a man can avoid suspicion is to avoid women altogether. A man should never go anywhere he might accidentally encounter a woman, and he must make sure he can prove his alibi, otherwise Anne Thériault would have him sent to prison, were it in her power to do so.

This is scarcely an exaggeration of the opinion Anne Thériault expressed in a column earlier this month about the Brock Turner case at Stanford:

Rape culture is the idea that sexual assault does not happen in a vacuum, but rather occurs because we are socialized in a way that normalizes and even celebrates sexual victimization of women. . . .

Everyone can agree that rape is objectively wrong, but problems crop up when we try to parse exactly what rape is and under what circumstances it occurs. . . .

Most rapists are men we know and like: our neighbors and our colleagues and sometimes even our friends. . . .

Men we think of as nice guys.

Men who look just like everybody else.

What the absolute hell is she talking about? Everybody knows and likes rapists? Read the whole column and you discover that what Anne Thériault is doing here is trying to create a definition of the “sexual victimization of women” so elastic as to include nearly every hookup involving people who have been drinking. By Anne Thériault’s standards, just about every hookup that happens after a college frat party could be construed as rape. The Brock Turner case was egregious, but in reading Anne Thériault’s commentary on the case, you realize that this is not about Brock Turner, in the same way her commentary about Jian Ghomeshi wasn’t really about Jian Ghomeshi. No, Anne Thériault has a generalized resentment toward men, and these cases give her an excuse to point the accusing finger: “You’re all guilty! Neighbors! Colleagues! Friends! Nice guys! Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!”

By constantly reiterating this universal male guilt, Anne Thériault seeks to convince her readers of her own moral superiority. She is Saint Anne of the Sacred Gender, and the rest of us — especially the male “us” — are all wretched sinners, unfit to touch the hem of her garment.

This self-righteousness, and this infinite hostility toward men, are both part of a revenge fantasy that is sadly common among feminists. The main problem with the world, from the feminist perspective, is that too many women actually like men. All men deserve to be hated, and no man deserves anything except hatred, and Anne Thériault will never be satisfied until all women hate men as much as she does.

Translation: Anne Thériault has sometimes had a few too many drinks and made bad decisions. pic.twitter.com/oogR1r3kUU — FreeStacy (@Not_RSMcCain) June 18, 2016

Actually, she IS saying all men are rapists, she just doesn't want to admit that she's saying it. pic.twitter.com/DJt3jGe1tb — FreeStacy (@Not_RSMcCain) June 18, 2016

Canadian feminist: "Most rapists are men we know and like." https://t.co/USwcZ6MtF9 ERGO, avoid men known and liked by Canadian feminists. — FreeStacy (@Not_RSMcCain) June 17, 2016









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