BELINDA BROWN: There's Nothing Pro- Women About Telling Girls Who Can't Remember the Night Before to Cry Rape

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One of the central duties of the Director of Public Prosecutions is to inspire society’s faith in the criminal justice system. But through a number of wayward judgments, current incumbent Alison Saunders is hardly succeeding in that task.

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Controversial: The director of public prosecutions has encouraged women to report rapes even when they can't remember what happened (ᴚile photo)

Loss of memory due to extreme drunkenness should be no bar to making a complaint, argued Ms Saunders.

‘We would encourage anyone who has thought they might have been raped and weren’t capable of consenting to go to the police,’ she said.

The hardline feminist lobby will no doubt be cheering her comments to the echo. But her dismissal of any idea that intoxication might play a role in an unfortunate or regretted liaison paints women as perpetual, helpless victims who are not to be held responsible for their actions.

Furthermore, it suggests that all men are dangerous predators eager to exploit them, and the only form of protection for women is the full rigour of the law. Common sense, restraint, self-preservation and rationality don’t come into it.

Alison Saunders’s contribution - in which she even argued that women should go to

a support group ‘if they can’t remember what happened’ - is exactly in line with +99 utterances of other feminists who see the judicial system as a vehicle for promoting NEW Top their agenda. ARTICLES Curvy Kelly Brook is the perfect hourglass in a Indeed, earlier this year, Dame Elish Angiolini QC, former Lord Advocate of Scotland, sophisticated offthe Share called for a change in the law so that a woman would be deemed incapable of giving shoulder dress for food http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article3247006/Theresprowomentellinggirlstremembernightcryrape.html 2/19 26/04/2017 Nothing prowomen about telling girls who can't remember night before to cry rape | Daily Mail Online any sort of consent to sex if she had been drinking heavily. launch Looked glamorous at London's Tower Bridge SHARE THIS RELATED ARTICLES ARTICLE See a rape counsellor if Lord Janner's trial on 22 you wake in a man's bed sex abuse charges with no... won't be for at...

Britain's most senior Met chief struggles to police oʽicer is forced defend VIP sex probe: Another wild night in Mexico! Kourtney shares to defend VIP... Hogan Howe... 102 Kardashian wears bra top as she straddles blonde female friend Others have demanded that men be required to obtain explicit verbal consent at during rowdy vacation every stage of sexual interaction, while women should be allowed to say ‘No’ at any 'My son has a lot to live point during the process. up to': Orlando Bloom admits he 'broke the internet' as he As an author and academic, I think this approach is profoundly misguided, discusses THOSE Katy Perry naked paddle doctrinaire and counter-productive. board shots

By saying that, I am not trying to diminish the horri塜ic impact of rape, which is one of WhatsAppening here? the darkest crimes in our society. Pregnant Danielle Lloyd sneaks a peek at fiancé Michael O'Neill's phone Nor am I denying that memory loss can as she goes makeup free in snakeskin print be caused by date-rape drugs tracksuit for stroll administered by men intent on sexually Baby got back(hand)! assaulting their victims. Hailey Baldwin flaunts her incredibly toned abs Of course, the full force of the law in her underwear as she posts sexy new video of should be brought to bear in all such herself winning tennis cases. match

Pop heartthrob Harry Indeed, it is precisely because rape and Styles is flocked by sexual assault are such serious crimes hordes of screaming fans as he arrives in that I feel so strongly about this. Rape is Paris during whirlwind promotional tour simply too important to be left to radical feminists intent on ignoring the nuanced complexities of human relationships and Oscarwinning Silence Of The Lambs director the hard realities of behavioural Jonathan Demme dies at the age of 73 after consequences. long battle with cancer Behind a long line of There is nothing pro-women about classics +2 ignoring alcohol intake on the issue of Hear me roar! Demi consent. On the contrary, such an Lovato gets HUGE lion 'Profoundly misguided': Director of public tattoo on hand (but Cara approach does women a terrible proseuctions Alison Saunders Delevingne and Justin Bieber did it first) disservice — it paints them as With 20 plus tattoos, there vulnerable, infantalised victims, devoid is not much room of personal responsibility. Killian Murphy! Peaky Blinders actor Cillian is If a women gets so drunk that she has no recollection of how she ended up in bed back to his violent ways as Tommy Shelby as he with a man, then her problem is not one of consent, but of alcohol abuse. and costar Adrien Brody brandish guns on The fact is that until the feminists began to dictate public policy, women were the set of the hit show

guarded by social convention. The biggest shield protecting women was not the They have a spark! heavy-handed intrusion of the law, but rather the mores of society. Lena Dunham and boyfriend Jack Antonoff pack on the PDA in New +99 Women were encouraged to avoid trouble by not going to bed on a 塜irst date, not York...after celebrating five years together NEW getting mind- numbingly drunk, not dressing provocatively and not walking through ARTICLES Top crime spots alone late at night. Advertisement Share http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article3247006/Theresprowomentellinggirlstremembernightcryrape.html 3/19 26/04/2017 Nothing prowomen about telling girls who can't remember night before to cry rape | Daily Mail Online In the real world where men are physically stronger than women and 96 per cent of serious crimes are perpetrated by men, such precautions were just sensible, not really any diﬀerent to urging householders to lock their doors and windows to avoid burglaries.

But to the feminists, such advice is an outrage. They want a world where women can do whatever they want and never have to deal with the consequences.

A classic example of their thinking occurred in April when the Sussex police distributed a safety poster encouraging women to stick together on a night out. Perfectly sensible advice, but the feminists reacted with indignation and the poster was withdrawn. The trouble is that a perpetually oﬀended outlook is not promoting maturity, but self-indulgent recklessness.

In the hit movie As Good As It Gets, Jack Nicholson’s character, a misogynistic writer, is asked by a fan how he can capture women so well on the page.

‘I think of a man, and then I take away accountability and reason,’ he replies. Paradoxically, that is what the feminist lobby seems to be doing about consent.

There is also a huge element of hypocrisy about their stance. If a woman is considered to be incapable of giving consent because of the in塜luence of drink, why should a drunken man be held responsible for his actions? Or does memory loss work only on one side?

Moreover, the feminists refuse to recognise the diﬀerences in the sexes. One of the central themes of their philosophy is that gender is a socially imposed construct, 'We're not in competition': Justin that women — when freed from the bonds of patriarchal expectations — should be Theroux insists he isn't intimidated by wife free to behave exactly like men, from laddish drinking to serial promiscuity. Jennifer Aniston's success... and reveals But this is fantasy land. Men are equipped very diﬀerently not just in physical terms, they may work together

but emotionally, too, which means they can more easily have sex — even with people FootLoose Women! TV they don’t particularly like — without psychological damage. hosts are put through their paces as they perform one of Steps' In fact, there is little doubt that sex is more of an animalistic impulse and necessity classic routines during impromptu danceoff with them, which is exactly why social traditions evolved to protect women. with band

Yet feminists want to ignore the lessons of history and biology. Nor do they allow any Vanessa Hudgens room for the subtleties of human exchange. Academic studies have shown that manages a smile while out with friends after her women have a wide range of non-verbal strategies for signalling their interest in sex, new show Powerless is axed midseason from gestures to looks. Yanked from the NBC schedule Men are not always experts at interpreting these signals, but that is not entirely their Johnny Depp slams ex fault. managers for blaming $40M debt on reckless One recent study at Texas University revealed that 61 per cent of sexually spending before revealing he spent $5M experienced female undergraduates had said ‘No’ when they really intended to have on cannon to shoot pal's ashes sex.

'Stressed' BGT's As Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, said: ‘What does a woman want?’ It George Sampson, reveals he's getting a is a question that has eternally perplexed and intrigued men. Yet it is precisely this £9k hair transplant after intrigue and allure that the hard-line feminists want to destroy. dance moves caused severe balding In their world, the sexual act between a man and a woman should be turned into a bureaucratic exercise where the male partner has to get verbal permission for every Arnold +99 Schwarzenegger's son new step towards greater intimacy. NEW Christopher goes casual ARTICLES Top as he enjoys family time Even a woman eagerly stripping oﬀ her clothes and climbing into bed should not be with his sister Katherine and their mother Maria Share taken as an indicator of consent. Shriver http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article3247006/Theresprowomentellinggirlstremembernightcryrape.html 4/19 26/04/2017 Nothing prowomen about telling girls who can't remember night before to cry rape | Daily Mail Online iculty with this is that it diminishes the horror of rape. Where every Pregnant Serena؀But the big di Williams steps out in misinterpreted fumble, disappointed coupling or drunken 塜ling is classi塜ied as an style in Canada as she assault, horri塜ic, violent attacks that merit criminal prosecution are devalued. makes her first public appearance since accidentally revealing It is the same pattern that has happened with the recent catalogue of child abuse she was expecting scandals, in which false accusations from disturbed individuals are undermining the What a difference a 塜ight against real abusers. day makes! Kim Kardashian turns the other cheek to The feminist lobby loves to point to the relatively low conviction rate for rape unairbrushed picture charges — currently 57 per cent — as evidence of a sexist judiciary that needs to frenzy as she slips into another racy Dior bikini change. Coleen Rooney shows But it should be pointed out that at 2,581, the number of convictions for rape last off her toned figure in skintight sportswear as year was the highest ever. she hits the gym following family trip More importantly, the dogmatic feminists have undermined their own cause by It was business as usual for Coleen pushing the question of consent beyond its logical breaking point. Unlike them, judges and juries still inhabit a world of common sense. Baby brain? Alex Jones showcases her sleek postbaby figure *Belinda Brown is a writer for The Conservative Woman as she leaves The One Show ... after making embarrassing blunder on air with Chris Pratt

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