"AND still The Age won’t apologise to the politician whose career it destroyed.

Nor will it even report that the woman who falsely accused Theo Theophanous of rape - and had a reporter friend plaster her claims all over the paper - has now been convicted of defamation. "
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/column_will_the_age_now_say_sorry/

The way a wolf pack operates, is that, once on the trail of it's quarry it falls slient, then the wolves take in turns to wear the quarry down.

They fade silently into the background.

Interesting thoughts of Beth Farrelly,

<'To find an honourable role for men is not to regress feminism, but to advance it. The muscular control of men by women is, I would argue, a hallmark of civilisation and although under-control looses brumbies on the streets, over-control turns the horse into a donkey, or maybe a mule. Is that what women want?">

Danny,

once again you just don't get it.

If you had grounds, then disagreement would be worth it.

Rusty

JAMES H. <whether Nixon had an inappropriate relationship with her or not, the cries to burn him at the cross misses entirely her role in deliberately setting him up.>

The scene of footballers hanging over a private toilet cubicle and deliberately taking photos in the Johns case seems like a set-up to me. Brendan Fevola taking secret photos in a shower and then publishing them also seems very similar to what the 17year old girl has done.
How the males hate it, when, what a lot of them have been getting away with for years is done to them. Maybe the footballers should straighten out some of their own childish behaviour if they don't wish to inspire copycats.

I must say it does feel good to see the tables turned on these arrogant footballers for once. A lot of them have made a careeer of setting women up, a lot of the incidences not reported I’ll bet. The ones we know about are probably only half the story.

Even after this girl had published revealing photos of the last lot of footballers, Nixon is still stupid enough to go to her room and have a relationship with her. I think the donkey cap you mentioned fits this fellow more than the brumby one.

Where did the girl get the idea to set these blokes up in the first place,I’d say she learned it by reading about their own behaviour in some recent much publicized cases.

I do 'get it' pretty well, Rusty. I get that you don't like that I'm free to express my views and convictions.

However I don't want to say too much lest it distracts from the central argument, such as that of Cherful and others who have put meaningful comments pertinant to the topic.  

Please hear me out before posting any condemnation here.

Women who go out and get drunk, wear revealing clothes and flirt with strangers may well place themselves at a greater risk of sexual assault. However, this does not mean that they deserve it or that anybody has a right to assault them. It also doesn't mean that they are responsible for the assault, or that they should not behave in such a way. At the end of the day, if a person is assaulted, the blame lies with the person committing the act - not the person receiving it.

As an extreme analogy, people who venture out of doors are at greater risk of being shot than people who stay indoors. If they are shot, however, we do not blame them. We take risks in our lives and, provided that we take appropriate precautions, we should continue to do so. The ignorance of a young girl who doesn't have a "party safe plan" does not justify the ill-intent of a man who goes out and preys on such girls.

As for the notion that girls who "put themselves out there" somehow cause bad things to happen to them, well, I find that insulting to men as well. Apparently all of us who are blessed with both X and Y chromosomes are also cursed with an inability to curb impulse - we see flesh, we must have it. That's just absurd, really. Men who wish to do bad things to girls cause bad things to happen to girls. If no girls revealed any flesh, what would happen? The girl with the prettiest dress, or the girl with the nicest laugh, or the girl with the tidiest hair would be assaulted. Why make themselves ugly to save themselves from people who will do bad things no matter what we do?