Misanthropic Feminism by Dr Michael Naughton - annotated response by Sean Bw Parker

‘The very fact that she was intoxicated, even though she was voluntarily so, when they had sex was enough for him to be convicted and given an eight-and-a-half-year custodial sentence, even though the pressure for the report to the police came from her now ex-boyfriend.’ - p96

Dr Michael Naughton, known by many academics and criminologists as Dr Miscarriages of Justice, has been scrutinising the work of the Criminal Cases Review Commission, or CCRC, since the turn of the millennium. While the case of John, which is analysed in this paper, has been thrice refused an appeal by the CCRC, Naughton sought to look more closely as to why it had been prosecuted by the Crown Prosecution Service in the first place.

John was given an 8.5 year prison sentence in 2018 for an alleged rape, under mutually voluntary intoxication, which was reported by the complainant’s boyfriend after she told him about it the next day.

‘Unless and until the existing CPS guidance on rape and intoxication is reformed, the wrongful convictions that flow from uncorroborated allegations of rape where the complainant was voluntarily intoxicated that are currently being enabled by the CPS will continue unabated.’ - p76

The paper goes into why and how men and women are treated differently in these cases, and this being contra to international Human Rights laws, and the UK Equality Act 2010. Why the double standards? Either the sexes are equal, capable of making equal choices, or they aren’t.

‘Whilst a voluntarily intoxicated man, correctly, must take full responsibility for his actions, women are deemed to be unable to consent to sex if they are, likewise, voluntarily incapacitated.’ - p77

It gradually becomes clear that for many years the legal system, under the aegis of legal dominance feminism, has been slowly chipping away at the meaning of ‘rape’ in order to increase conviction statistics. This leads to increasing marginalisation of men, and by extension the alienation of reality-based women who support them.

Grok, Elon Musk’s AI, says that any scrutiny of these processes will likely meet great resistance due to it being seen as against ‘hard won progress’.

‘“Misanthropic feminism,” which is conceived to act against the interests of both women and men; against all of humanity in its ‘success’ of law and policy reforms with the aim of making it easier to convict men accused of rape who may not have committed the alleged offence.’ - p78

‘The prosecution in John’s case was also in breach of 2.8 of the CCP,19 failing to be even-handed in its approach, seeing the complainant as the “victim” from the outset, rather than as a possible perpetrator of a false allegation.’ - p80

This ‘victimhood narrative’ goes hand in hand with Keir Starmer’s introduction of the ‘believe the victim’ policy in the early 2010s, when he was Director of Public Prosecutions.

The media narrative for decades until that point was that too many predatory men were ‘getting away with it’ due to the he said/she said nature of such cases. The term ‘predator’, like ‘victim’, has been warped and expanded to include men who are either open about pursuing women, or simply charming (apologies for the old fashioned word).

Rarely is it mentioned that they were ‘getting away with it’ because it had happened nothing in the way that it had been reported.

‘This argument is strengthened further with reference to the Equality Act 2010,29 which also requires public authorities in Great Britain (Wales, Scotland and England), including the CPS, not to discriminate against the protected characteristics of citizens, with sex listed as a core protected characteristic under s.4.’ - p81

‘The whole case against John hinges only on an after-the-fact determination that his complainant could not consent to sex due to being intoxicated, despite her intoxication being voluntary.’ - p83

Why does the male part of a consensual tryst receive an eight-plus year sentence while the female either receives compensation, or the #MeToo encouraged sympathy of her environs? They had drunk as much as each other over a ten-hour period, and she had gone up to his room willingly, refusing many requests by friends to drive her home.

There were no reports of trouble or struggle from the three tenant neighbours to the room, quite the opposite. The prosecution’s line of attack was that the complainant simply ‘submitted to sex’.

‘Where the complainant has voluntarily consumed even substantial quantities of alcohol, but nevertheless remains capable of choosing whether or not to have intercourse, and in drink agrees to do so, this would not be rape.’ - Bree, p84

Dr Naughton invokes the case of Bree, not dissimilar from John’s, where the judgment is misleading to the point that the exculpatory nature of it is often edited out depending on the socio-legal intentions of the reporter.

John’s complainant was far from ‘unconscious’, walking up to his room, from which a neighbouring tenant in the room below him reported the next day as hearing ‘happy sounds’. This neighbour mysteriously changed his story over the subsequent 14-month wait for trial. The CCRC had the power to investigate why this might have happened, but has repeatedly refused to do so.

‘In the context of John’s complainant’s actions before (telling friends that she was going to spend the night with John), during (the complainant did not claim that she did not consent to sex and a neighbour said that he did not hear anything that indicated rape either) and after sexual intercourse (jovial text message on the way to her car and allegation only made because her boyfriend did not want to accept that his girlfriend cheated on him), the decision to prosecute John for alleged rape seems perverse in the extreme.’ - p84

Dr Naughton thus reaches the perverse nub of the case. That both parties agree the next day that it probably shouldn’t have happened was clearly deemed irrelevant by the investigating officer, and since the ITV drama Liar was all the rage on the television at the time, she felt her hand steadied by the media-justice collusion. The cheerful text message the complainant later sent to John was dismissed or brushed away.

Investigators found no evidence of ‘spiking’, the theme of Liar, but pursued the point even into court, where it was disallowed. The difference between spiking, which is an intentional, predatory act, and the (very normal) situation John and his complainant found themselves in, is vast. One has intent, one does not. These are two entirely different ‘spectrums of behaviour’.

‘Is the criminal justice system failing almost 99% of rape victims or are almost 99% or rape allegations to be seen as false?' - p85

Statistics in this area are easily manipulated by legal academics, many of whom are of the misanthropic feminist mindset. They will count false allegations as being as low as 2% etc, while diligent researchers such as Patrick Graham estimate them more at upwards of  70%.

The scope of what rape and sexual assault are has been massively expanded since the Tony Blair era 2003 sex law reforms, and the point at which they are counted - allegation? Report? Charge? Conviction? Exoneration? - depends on that which the academic in question wants to achieve. The courts are meant to weed this out, but lawyers are increasingly hampered by not being allowed to question complainants, being disciplined when they do, and not wanting to be seen as being on the ‘wrong side of progress’.

‘Whomever may appear to be in the position of power, the most important consideration is that we, women and men, do not live in separate vacuums or spheres but, rather, in a rich and vibrant web of complex and dynamic interrelationships and co-dependencies.’ - p89

‘Forms of institutional sexism, which may look like they act in the interests of either, rather than both, women or men, are better seen in terms of what I term here as a misanthropic continuum, with misogyny at one extreme and misandry at the other.’ - p89

Towards the second half of the paper Naughton zooms out of John’s case, the commonality of which can be understood to reverberate around the country, and into the damage being done to human relations globally.

‘The governing system that is commonly called patriarchy, which is more appropriately to be seen as institutionalized forms of sexism, must be extended to incorporate the social structures and practices which divide, dominate and oppress all people.’ - p90

It appears that the systems of power that Naughton has been detailing throughout his academic career reaches another nub in how allegations of sex crimes are being treated at the moment. In the relentless drive to unpick the ‘patriarchy’, all men become fair game, even when they’ve had zero recognisable advantage - or if they have, they are painfully unaware of it.

DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) policies have gone hand in hand with the general demonisation, and have been seen to be a lever to further increase misanthropic feminism in the institutions, and further minimise and marginalise the very existence of men.

‘Though problematic from a shared humanity perspective, it is understandable in such cases that family members and friends of the complainant and the accused will believe their family member or friend whom they love and rally in support of them.’ - p90

The Mothers of the Accused are becoming a large and powerful force, and as we see in the women of Justice for Men Scotland (JIMS), a force that in fact means women against legal-dominance feminism. This is because they have seen the men in their lives, husbands, brothers, fathers and sons, go through the fire of spurious allegations and wrongful convictions, brought about due to now sexist legal policies that might have been once meant to liberate them.

‘The current criminal justice system can be conceived to be infected with the germ of misanthropia in the area of rape allegations.’ - p91

‘Misanthropic feminism thus conceived comprises both women and men combatants who see men, all men, as a generalized enemy to be defeated and punished, whether innocent or an actual sexual criminal offender it matters not.’ - p91

As Mike Thompson of the Falsely Accused Network says, this isn’t about men being against women, it’s about the harm that contemporary forms of feminism is doing. The bad faith that many in the bubbles of academic identity theory see power relations through demand that they Give No Quarter To The White Man (other ethnicities are available) lest they be seen as giving up on some sort of existential fight.

The fact that they have succeeded in wresting power from men across the board seems to be of no consequence (specific industries such as banking have their own internal issues to sort, away from the law in the sense of this paper).

‘If some innocent men’s reputations have to take a hit in the process of undoing the patriarchy, that is a price I am absolutely willing to pay.’ - Meghan Joyce Tozer, p91

‘Influencer’ Tozer’s #MeToo-era meme is one of the most well shared on this subject, and speaks to the blithe indifference that many fourth-wave feminists either feign or have inculcated, due to the wraparound coverage of anti-male rhetoric in the mainstream media. This is evidence of the media-justice collusion in terms of misanthropic feminism, and spreads as far as the passive-aggression of having all-female panels presenting male sports programmes.

‘This article has shown the CPS to be currently working contrary to all aspects of its remit when it sexually discriminates against men like John by treating his voluntary intoxication and that of his complainant differently.’ - p93

‘The reform of the “believe the victim” policy would also prevent cases like John’s, where allegations are uncorroborated by additional forms of evidence, even reaching the CPS stage.’ - p93

So the media-justice collusion and the Crown Prosecution Service prop each other up in ignoring actual law in favour of chipping away at jury trials, calling all criticism ‘misogyny’, and demonising popular figures such as Andrew Tate, Laurence Fox, Russell Brand and Gregg Wallace, for example, for displaying essentially traditional opinions, shared by millions.

‘The CCRC has also been shown to be a creature of law that is unable to assist innocent victims of laws and guidelines that are not in line with required human rights and equality standards.’ - p93

Does the misanthropic vibe extend to the CCRC, an organisation that was set up to be independent, but has been repeatedly shown to do nothing but prop up a corrupted justice system?

John’s three refusals to refer, with mealy-mouthed, process-based explanations as to why, would indicate so. If they were to refer John’s case, what would they do about the many thousands that would similarly implicate? Better to find weasel words to get out of such honest dealings.

‘We live in a society that is increasingly divided: you are either on this side or that side; in or out; one of us or one of them; a comrade or an enemy. No where is this more apparent than in relation to the emotive issue of rape allegations.’ - p93-94

‘In the area of sex, women are treated as though they are not responsible for their actions when they are voluntarily intoxicated; that they are in need of protection, from themselves as much as from a man, any man, all men, who is/are perceived as not to be trusted to not take advantage of her vulnerable situation.’ - p95

The ago of social media has been a boom time for misanthropia in general, and misanthropic feminism in particular. Tech companies quickly worked out, like the traditional media, that the most clicks, and thus advertising, were generated by pitching human against human, and in so finding the ‘best story’ to do so.

Along with this are all the cultural movers and shakers on X, from academics to journalists to politicians, getting increasingly nasty with each other. Great for those who profit, terrible for the men and womenfolk of those who are collateral damage in the false, spurious or exaggerated allegations permanently attendant.

‘So long as women are seen as vulnerable and in need of differential treatment, equality between the sexes will remain a mere pipedream, which women should protest against whether or not it serves them in the power relations between the sexes.’ - p95

‘Our society has been hoodwinked into creating a false allegations charter that none of us, whether women or men, can escape from unless we come to our senses and see the harm and damage being caused to our shared humanity.’ - p96

John Davis of Gender Studies for Men terms it: ‘the juice is no longer worth the squeeze’. Young men across the west are no longer dating due to the experience feeling more like a job interview than an enjoyable, exciting time - and young women on TikTok are posting their confusion about it.

Empowering The Innocent (ETI) may be about presenting the cases of those who claim to be falsely accused or wrongfully convicted, but beyond the re-assertion of justice is the necessity for Conflict Resolution. Acknowledging the institutional Misanthropic Feminism that is deeply harming the lives of boys, girls, men and women is a necessary step in re-establishing the natural, beautiful, evolutionary harmony between the sexes.