Comments on: Society Builds Wall Between Men and Children

By: Mary Jackson

Mary Jackson — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:45:13 +0000

Yes.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 08:53:45 +0000

Mary Jackson,

are you the same Mary Jackson who wrote the comments on this PJM article?
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/ask-dr-helen-workplace-discrimination-against-men/

By: Mr Nobody

Mr Nobody — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:17:22 +0000

13. Steve:
“Just the other day I saw a little girl in the grocery store who was obviously lost. It’s sad that my first unconscious reaction was to let her out of my sight long enough to find a female to help out for fear of someone thinking I was abducting the child whilst I helped her try to find her parent.”

More than once in my life I have been in an almost identical situation with a small and very distressed child. Like you I ignored them (though I did find a female employee to deal with it). And it really cuts me up, because I love kids. I have nieces and nephews who I cherish greatly and take care of frequently, and I would never hurt a hair on a child’s heads. But being a single, childless, middle-aged male, there is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY I am going to put myself at risk of those vicious hysterical life-destroying accusations (except maybe very briefly if the child’s life is in immediate and obvious danger).

We have truly lost our minds over this issue to full blown public hysteria about ’stranger danger’, from the moralistic thugs in this world.

And full credit to Boris Johnston for his sane remarks on this issue.

By: Kehl Lutz

Kehl Lutz — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:59:47 +0000

Here in the states we have a rash of cases where older women and teachers are being caught with young boys in sexual situations. Just recently a lady very active with her childrens’ school activities was found, with her pants down, in an SUV with a 13 year old boy. Machismo and that blather aside, I ever catch my son with a dirty older woman I will likely be in the pen for assault. It goes both ways and that is what I think is swept under the rug. Old dirty bags should be thrown right in there with the rest of the peedos.

By: Jhn Milder

Jhn Milder — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:43:06 +0000

Pretty scary society isnt it!

Jess
http://www.privacy-tools.at.tc

By: Corbin

Corbin — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 08:59:51 +0000

> A cold fact: More women abuse children than men — simply because more women have access to children.

No, LouAnn, that’s a lie. Many women tell themselves this lie to avoid guilt and personal accountability. Lies like this protect the myth that women are pure, all-good souls — and by intimation perpetuate the myth that only men do evil.

More women abuse children than men. Period. That’s a fact.

Deal with it, because it’s not going away.

By: ztp

ztp — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 01:36:26 +0000

Is it possible the power-hungry feminists who demanded these horrible laws didn’t have happy families. So they want to ensure no other child ever has a happy family either?

Seeing intact, happy families with a loving father must really kill the feminists. They never experienced that.

By: Peter the Sub Guy

Peter the Sub Guy — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 20:49:58 +0000

For the first couple of years that I served in the Navy, my parents cared for my toddler daughter. A foundless accusation was made against my father by another family member (in an attempt to blackmail my father) resulting in a visit by NYC ACS. The social worker who made the initial visit reported she could find no evidence of abuse and only a healthy family situation, but the rules stated the report had to be filed and investigated by NYPD. That’s where the problems began. A female detective was assigned to the case who started with the mindset that my father was guilty and she was going to go out of her way to prove it. Then a different social worker in the clinic where my daughter was taken for a medical exam also started with the attitude that if the accusation was made my father was guilty and my daughter should be removed from the home. (Fortunately this particular social worker was in Connecticut, where I was based, and not NY, so she had no authority to remove my daughter from her loving home.) The investigation took about six months before the police had to finally agree with the ACS social worker, that there was no evidence of any abuse, sexual or otherwise, that our home was a loving, normal home and that the initial accusations were baseless. That didn’t help my father any because, a little less than a month after the investigation began, suffered a stress induced heart attack. While he survived the initial attack, he was never the same, and he was never the same with my daughter, who before the accusation he would often hug or hold as he read books to her. It hurt my daughter at least as much as it did my father that he was no longer as close to her as she was used to. And my father’s health continued to deteriorate until he passes away from a second heart attack less than two years later.

By: cjrian

cjrian — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 05:11:56 +0000

I’m a single male with custody of 2 grandchildren. I’ve had CPS “visits” twice. Once when a new neighbor thought “something is funny” about our living arrangement. The second was an unfounded report of child abuse. Both were resolved successfully, but not before extended, anxiety producing contact with a variety “authorities” who bent over backward in attempts to get me to implicate myself. I’ll continue to do what I must, but I have little remaining respect for those charged with protecting our kids.

By: Tina Trent

Tina Trent — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 03:48:12 +0000

A few facts about prosecutions in America (and this is largely true in Britain) — the vast majority of sex offenders who target children (and, to a smaller degree, adult victims of both sexes) are still not prosecuted. So whether or not it upsets respondents who attribute every mention of rape to feminist hysteria, in reality, wrongful convictions are practically nonexistent, and the chance of rapists going free remains shockingly high.

Activists, including too many contemporary feminist activists, choose to create generalized hysteria about molestation rather than condemning real assailants because they are firmly embedded in a political culture that views offenders — especially minority offenders — as the real and exclusive victims. In deference to political correctness, these activists prefer to blame all men in lieu of blaming real rapists and child molesters. All this is true. These activists vehemently oppose policies that do work — three strikes laws, registries, and long sentences. Registries alone have taken thousands of rapists off the streets, though the media refuses to report this. And Britain’s best-model DNA databasing is currently under attack by the EU — a new and very disturbing development.

We actually owe a debt to people like Susan Brownmiller, whose balanced work on rape and rape law in the Seventies would surprise many if they bothered to read it. The feminist movement of the Seventies deserves much credit for changing a system in which rapists nearly always walked free. Sadly, recent generations of feminists care more about political correctness than justice. But there has always been a cohort of conservative, anti-crime feminists who work well with the police and do not resort to male-bashing. Knee-jerk hysteria about wrongful convictions and “cruel” registries are a distraction from the realities of under-prosecuted sex crimes.

Perhaps the most important legal reform, outside DNA databasing, is disallowing sex offenders to plead down to non-sexual crimes. Once DNA databases started identifying rapists, majorities of sex offenders thus identified had long records consisting of non-sex offenses, like burglary — many of which were actually rapes pled down again and again and again.

There’s nothing hysterical about acknowledging that. And if more people did so, perhaps we could all agree to focus on our still-dismal conviction rates for this crime, even as we endorse Mary’s important point about the shameful criminalizing of decent men. Fetishizing criminals while criminalizing non-criminal men are twinned products of the same liberal mindset. But the existence of that mindset doesn’t mean that rape is merely a product of fertile imaginations.