The utter STUPIDITY of "Always believe the woman"----

[JCannon]

129. Including the SRA claimants?

I tried to write a book about that Satanic Ritual Abuse controversy in the 1990s, and in the course of my research, I met women who made all sorts of unlikely claims.

Everyone seems to have forgotten that the SRA allegations were pushed heavily by the feminists of that period. I don't know why that fact has been allowed to go down the memory hole, and I don't know why this history should not color our current assessment of feminism. What happened at that time goes some ways toward explaining why, according to all polls, feminism is unpopular (even among women!), in a country where most people believe in equal rights. (Example. Another example.)

The axiom "Believe women PERIOD" is incredibly dangerous. Do you include Lauren Stratford? "Toby Cole" (a.k.a. Margaret Louise Herget)? Ruth Finley? Cindy James? Eunice Pringle? Betty Hill? Michelle Smith? Cathy O'Brien? You probably won't recognize most of those names, but if you fire up Google, I promise that you'll spend some fascinating hours. Give me a full five minutes and I can come up with another list of women who have made similar claims.

We all recall (or should recall) that a woman was offered $20,000 to "Me Too" Mueller. If she had taken the money, would she have been worthy of belief? Add a couple of zeroes to that figure, and you'll have an idea of what we're in for in 2020.

There is no data to support the claim that women are uniquely holy. There is no evidence that women cannot be bribed or corrupted. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, some 18.5% of the population suffers from mental illness in a given year, and I've seen no evidence to suggest that the 18.5% includes only males.