The Dangers of ‘Believe Women’

www.DailySignal.Com ^ | September 19, 2018 | Michelle Malkin

[Yosemitest]

I have a message for virtue-signaling men who’ve rushed to embrace #MeToo operatives hurling uncorroborated sexual assault allegations into the chaotic court of public opinion.

Stuff it.

Your blanket “Believe Women” bloviations are moral and intellectual abominations that insult every human being of sound mind and soul.

A certain class of never Trump-harumphers are leading the charge on behalf of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s memory-addled partisan accuser Christine Blasey Ford — who cannot recall
the year she was allegedly traumatized,
where it happened,
who threw the party that paralyzed her for nearly four decades,
how many were in attendance during her claimed assault,
how she got there,
or how she left.

No matter !
Bush campaign hack-turned-ABC News analyst Matthew Dowd doesn’t need any data to analyze.
“Enough with the ‘he said, she said'” storyline,” he declared this week.
“If this is ‘he said, she said,’ then let’s believe the she in these scenarios.
She has nothing to gain, and everything to lose.
For 250 years we have believed the he in these scenarios.
Enough is enough.”

Clinton/Kerry flack Peter Daou echoed the unthinking sentiment:
“To everyone on the right who says I’m being selective,
I BELIEVE WOMEN whether the accused is a Republican or Democrat.
And yes, that includes all the names you’re throwing at me.
My default in these situations is to BELIEVE WOMEN.”

Ivy League poobah Simon Hedlin asserted:
“Accusers go public not because of any supposed benefits but despite the immense costs.”
He argued:
“When somebody is credibly accused of sexual misconduct, the default should be to believe the accuser.”

That is a dumb and dangerous default.
The costly toll of “believing women,” instead of believing evidence, can be seen in the hundreds and hundreds of cases recorded by the University of Michigan Law School’s National Registry of Exonerations involving innocent men falsely accused of rape and rape/murders.

One of those men whose plight I’ve reported on for CRTV and my syndicated column, former Fort Worth police officer Brian Franklin, spent 21 years in prison of a life sentence after he was convicted of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl in 1995 who had committed perjury on the stand.

Franklin vigilantly maintained his innocence, studied law in the prison library, and won a reversal of his conviction in 2016.
The jury took less than two hours to acquit him. But his name is still not clear.

He recently submitted a 200-page application for a pardon for innocence and cannot do what he wants to do — return to law enforcement — unless the members of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles
(along with Texas constitutional conservatives who pay lip service to truth, justice, and due process)
do the right thing.

In Philadelphia, Anthony Wright also served more than two decades behind bars like Franklin.
He was convicted in 1993 for a brutal rape and murder of an elderly woman.

It was a female prosecutor, Bridget Kirn, who
“failed to alert the Court or the jury to what she personally knew was the falsity of [police detectives’] testimony, or otherwise honor her ethical duty to correct it,”
according to Wright’s lawyers with the Innocence Project.
They have filed a lawsuit directly aimed at the prosecutor this week to hold her accountable for her criminal falsehoods.

And just this week, Oregonian Joshua Horner, serving a 50-year sentence for sexual abuse of a young girl, was exonerated after a dog that the accuser had claimed he shot dead was found alive.
There had been no DNA, no corroborating witnesses, and no other forensic evidence —
just the word of girl whose contradictions and memory problems were explained away as “post-traumatic stress” while an innocent man nearly drowned.

The idea that all women and girls must be telling the truth at all times about sexual assault allegations because they “have nothing to gain” is perilously detached from reality.

Retired NYPD special victim squad detective John Savino, forensic scientist and criminal profiler of the Forensic Criminology Institute Brent Turvey, and forensic psychologist Aurelio Coronado Mares detail the myriad “prosocial” and “antisocial” lies people tell in their textbook “False Allegations: Investigative and Forensic Issues in Fraudulent Reports of Crime.”

“Prosocial deceptions” involve specific motives beneficial to both the deceiver and the deceived, including the incentives to
“preserve the dignity of others,” to gain “financial benefit” for another;
to protect a relationship;
“ego-boosting or image protection (of others)”;
and “protecting others from harm or consequence.

“Antisocial” lies involve selfish motives to “further a personal agenda at some cost to others,” including
“self-deception and rationalization to protect or boost self-esteem”;
“enhance status or perception in the eyes of others”;
“garner sympathy”;
“avoid social stigma”;
“conceal inadequacy, error, and culpability”;
“avoid consequence”;
and for “personal and/or material gain.”

Let me repeat the themes of my work in this area for the past two years to counter the “Believe Women” baloney:

The role of the press should be verification, not validation.

Rape is a devastating crime.
So is lying about it.

It’s not victim-blaming to get to the bottom of the truth.
It’s liar-shaming.

Don’t believe a gender.
Believe evidence.

[Yosemitest]

"Heav'n has no rage
like love to hatred turn'd
Nor Hell a fury,
like a woman scorn'd."


William Congreve

[Yosemitest]

Everyone read Rush's article Blasey Ford’s Yearbook Scrubbed from Internet. Sep 20, 2018,
and the supporting article WHY CHRISTINE BLASEY FORD’S HIGH SCHOOL YEARBOOKS WERE SCRUBBED: Faculty Approved Racism, Binge Drinking and Promiscuity .

You should ... you REALLY should.
The supporting article has many detailed photos that you must see.
For example:

" ... The yearbook title is SCRIBE. The relevant issues are SCRIBE 82, SCRIBE 83 and SCRIBE 84, corresponding to Blaseys’s sophomore, junior and senior years, when she and her classmates (and Kavanaugh) were 15-17 year old juveniles. ...



HOLTON FACULTY APPROVED BINGE DRINKING

Scribe 84 is the yearbook for her senior year. Her name was Christine Blasey in high school, often referred to as “Chrissy”. In the image below, Blasey is pictured at a Halloween party in her junior year. The caption on the right says:

“Lastly one cannot fail to mention the climax of the junior social scene, the party. Striving to extend our educational experience beyond the confines of the classroom, we played such intellectually stimulating games as Quarters, Mexican Dice and everyone’s favorite, Pass-Out, which usually resulted from the aforementioned two.” ...

Now we turn to the final sentiments from Scribe 84, Chrissy Blasey’s senior year at Holton-Arms. Page 261 gives the parting sentiment of her six-year Holton experience. There are two relevant quotes. The first characterizes the senior girls as sexual predators upon younger boys:

“Other seniors preferred to expand their horizons and date younger men, usually sophomores, who could bring the vitality and freshness of innocence to a relationship.”

The Holton girls clearly portray themselves as the sexual predators here. ...

LET’S TALK ABOUT MEMORY

In conclusion, please look again at the page above. In the final passage, the joy of passing out and forgetting everything you did the night before is praised:

“And there were always parties to celebrate any occasion. Although these parties are no doubt unforgettable, they are only a memory lapse for most, since loss of consciousness is often an integral part of the party scene.”

That supporting article really is worth your time.

Now go to a used book store and try to purchase any of the HOLTON-ARMS High School SCRIBE 1982, SCRIBE 1983, or SCRIBE 1984 Yearbooks.
The DemocRATS are burning them as fast as they can get their hands on them.

[Reno89519]

She has a history that has been scrubbed. Beyond high school. Social, political, etc. Time to see it. Bet she doesn’t look so innocent, so traumatized, nor honest claimant once it all comes out. BTW, what happened with PGA?

[Secret Agent Man]

Men are far, far better off NOT believing women.

[cdcdawg]

It’s enough to make you think that the traditional sex roles were rational and based on centuries of experience. Feminism is Left’s greatest weapon. I can’t help but notice something about nearly all of the leaders of feminism.

[Vigilanteman]

I know Michelle Malkin is married. Is it wrong for me to consider her big time eye candy?

[Electric Graffiti]

I believe Michelle Malkin. She makes my big toe shoot up in my boot.

[SkyDancer]

You’d be called a misogynist if you asked her all those questions of her.

[Bullish]

Reason #1 for not believing all women is because many, many women are damn liars. They’ll lie 10 ways to Wednesday. just think of all the lies from women like Hillary and Pelosi just to name two.

Believe all women? I think not and for damn good reason.

[Yosemitest]

The left waited TOO LATE to scrub her past.
Read comment #2 again.

[exDemMom]

Classmates.com has digital copies of many yearbooks.

[blueplum]

speaking of ‘believing her’, I read a story earlier today that talked about a woman, Ashley Bemis, who had defrauded the fire dept of around $11K in funds she collected allegedly on their behalf. She had represented prior to the Holy Fire that she lost 3 children. Even posted videos of them and wore a pillow to produce a baby bump. She accepted baby showers and gifts from her co-workers and social friend and later claimed the baby died and the others were killed in a car crash by a drunk driver. But she didn’t have any children at all - they were the kids of her former au pair employer in Mission Viejo, who posted her own video to prove the children, all 3, were very much alive and well.

Don’t believe everything you hear. Verify then trust.

[Yosemitest]

"Reason #1 for not believing all women is
because many, many women are damn liars.
They’ll lie 10 ways to Wednesday."

Is there any better teacher than EXPERIENCE ?

[texas booster]

https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/about.aspx

This link to the UM Law School’s National Registry of Exonerations will depress you, or might even lift your spirits for the few successes they have documented.

Keep in mind - is anyone, even in this day and age, willing to send a man to jail for such nebulous and faint accusations? By a 15 year old girl?

False accusations happens all the time, except to Hollywood producers ...

[Reno89519]

That’s about the only thing out there. Nothing from college or more recent. All scrubbed.

[I want the USA back]

Ask the men in prison, convicted on the word of their wives, the divorced men, and those who got fired from their jobs on the word of a woman.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

This white “anita hill” is a lying, pathetic, abortionist trying to derail a good nominee.

I’d believe a taqqiyah talking jihadist over her.

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

time.com/5392256/oregon-joshua-horner-exonerated/

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BELIEVE POLITICIANS

[Texan5]

I’m a woman and I don’t believe-or trust women-as a workers comp case manager, I learned early on that my female clients were almost twice as likely to lie to me about the circumstances and extent of work-related injuries-as well as to accuse male supervisors of sexual harassment and/or assault when they were caught in those lies. A good reason why my coworkers and employer are all men, as are all but one of my close friends...

I’m 100% certain that Ford woman is a lying, manipulative bitch-her victim act stinks of self-absorption and the desire to please her political hack handlers. I’ll also bet she’s gotten $$$ and has been promised more and now that is in jeopardy because it is becoming obvious she has zero credibility...