Men in hot water either side of the Atlantic currently over how they should disport their male members in society; and in either case like the Dreyfus affair it holds in many ways a mirror up to society, principally as an opportunity for the British to air their habitual hypocrisy, prurience and incompetence when it comes to all things of a sexual nature.
The winners from all of which, here at least, are both the lawyers and a press that is no doubt delighted to have been able to sell a few newspapers. And of course those of us watching at home, following the proceedings being an altogether more socially acceptable pastime than viewing Pornhub. As entertaining as watching the decline and fall of opinionated multi-millionaires, however, has been laying bets on which former friend or lover is most likely to appear next from the woodwork to say how they suspected as much all along.
Here in the north of England, the regularised rape of drugged-up girls living within 'care' homes ~ having no parental home to speak of ~ aroused nowhere near so much angst among the middle classes, and during the time our own S'kier Starmer was Director of Public Prosecutions. This would doubtless be because, as one of the victims in her autobiography Girl A states, those involved stemmed from an ethnic community and (as I state) being neither rich nor famous they were of no interest to the UK's media.
This last point is significant, because the pursuit of law tends to follow the current interests of the most influential members of its society ~ and the media, like law and PR and much else ~ is run from London by people whose food is delivered to their door-steps by Waitrose. Thus the regularisation of wholesale shop-lifting and abuse of (largely female) staff goes unnoticed by politicians who, in the way that Thatcher viewed people on buses as failures, don't have to do their own shopping.
Q: Which of the quotes pictured was uttered by a man, and which a woman?
A: Wrong. The first Helen Andrews (look her up) and the second Lord Acton (dead).
