A quick recap for those who haven’t been following the story:
A group of AFL players went out to celebrate a win on Sunday and brought strippers back to their Melbourne hotel rooms.
What happened after that is unclear, yet to be confirmed, and the subject of wild and ridiculous rumours.
But it has been reported that one of the strippers alleged she had been sexually assaulted (note that in Victoria “sexual assault” means non-consensual sexual touching, unlike in NSW where it means non-consensual sexual intercourse, commonly called rape) by one of the Sydney Swans players.
No one was arrested and no charges have been laid, but the media went into a frenzy, female journalists and homosexual and/or leftist males started frothing at the mouth, and the AFL’s woke CEO made a ridiculous statement saying the poor stripper was “entitled to privacy and care, and that should be respected”.
Today the five players were suspended for the rest of the season, not over the sexual assault allegation, but for going out drinking, staying out late, and “bringing women back to the hotel”.
The players said they were “deeply sorry”. “We know that our behaviour has fallen well short of the standards expected of us and the values of our club,” they said in a statement.
The Swans’ woke CEO Matthew Pavlich said: “To say we are disappointed is an understatement. We’re deeply embarrassed and ashamed that the poor choices from five of our players and the impact that’s had on the women involved.”
“The impact that’s had on the women involved”?
First of all, this implies his own players are guilty when they haven’t even been charged – it’s weak, pathetic, and a total betrayal.
And second, what impact could he possibly be referring to?
Are we seriously expected to believe that somewhere in Melbourne there is a stripper – a stripper being nothing more than a prostitute who only has sex with some of the men she’s paid to get naked in front of – crying herself to sleep or curled up in the shower because an AFL player allegedly touched her during a lapdance?
What’s happening here is trial by media, and five men are being treated like rapists, on the apparent word of a member of one of society’s most immoral and repulsive groups.
But now, of course, police are under pressure to lay charges, and they’ve charged innocent people for a lot less.
In the current climate of “believe all women”, where prosecutors have been accused by judges of running “hopeless” but “politically expedient” rape cases, where men have their doors bashed down by police based on “blind acceptance” of lies, and where the jails are full of men accused of domestic violence, one or more of these guys could easily find themselves on trial.
AFL player Tanner Bruhn was out of the game for 17 months and almost had his career ruined after being falsely accused of raping a stripper who turned out to be a liar. No charges for her though.
NRL player Jack de Belin went through two trials after a woman he met at a nightclub accused him and another man of rape, and three years later was found not guilty of one charge and five others were finally dropped. During the first trial it emerged the police officer leading the case lied under oath.
The root of the issue is that women put their own self interest as a group ahead of the male concept of presumption of innocence, and in our feminised society it is women who control the discourse.
Women have an intense in-group preference, as has been on display during the ongoing trial of Lindsay Clancy in the US, who strangled her three young children to death and is fighting murder charges.
Clancy is enjoying an outpouring of support from women online, and a GoFundMe for her parents has raised almost US$1 million. The fundraiser image is a drawing of Clancy crying in her wheelchair surrounded by a multi-racial crowd of women all holding hands in support.
The support for Clancy seems inexplicable, but it is not, as studies show female in-group biases are 4.5 times stronger than those of men. And we all know this instinctively – when’s the last time men all got together and defended a man who killed his children?
Women are also more genetically predisposed to lying than men, because while honesty is vital in a hunting or war party, it isn’t so useful in the longhouse, and therefore it is in the interest of women to create a society in which they can get away with lying.
In short, the reason women want all women to be believed, is because it’s a great strategy for women, and women want what’s best for women.
Very few men, on the other hand, are motivated by what is best for men. In fact, many man are motivated to try to do what they think is best for women, because they (wrongly) believe that will win them the favour of women.
As a result, the presumption of innocence is on life-support.
If a doped-up STI-ridden stripper with fake boobs, bad tattoos and who knows how many criminal convictions accuses you of touching her in the wrong place, you are immediately guilty in the eyes of almost all women and weak men.
You’ll get arrested by female cops, refused bail by a female magistrate, and smeared as a rapist in news stories written and edited by women, or by men who are afraid of upsetting their female colleagues – which is why no one is defending the Swans players in the corporate media.
In a sane society a group of sportsmen wouldn’t be suspended for having a night out, and the AFL and the media wouldn’t be bending over backwards to consider the feelings of a dancing prostitute.
Instead we have a feeding frenzy, and we are witnessing the presumption innocence being undermined in real time, which is not good for men or women.
Without the presumption of innocence our whole legal system falls apart, and our entire civilisation is at risk – we can either believe all women, or live in a functional society, we can’t have both.
Header image. A Sydney Swans jersey (AFL).
