Carlton Supporters Club

With respect Crash, you’re unlikely to be in a position where you have to decide whether to report a rape.

One of my sisters was raped.  She told me about it many years later and explained why reporting it wasn’t an option; fear of reprisals, shame, questioning by male police, going to court with male judges and lawyers, embarrassing the family …

The judge in this case is convinced that neither Higgins nor Lehrmann has been totally honest.  It will come down to whether the judge accepts that intercourse took place.  If he does, Lehrmann is screwed.

That's really where this needs to be decided.
In a court of law.
With a body of testimony.
With an experienced adjudicator.
Not in the court of public opinion, where bias, personal perception, and limited information will rarely deliver a sound assessment.

In fact, Lehrmann (who called himself Bryce) took her to his friend's house where she apparently passed out after too much alcohol.  Familiar modus operandi?

Lehrmann allegedly had consensual sex with the young woman but didn’t wear a condom when they had sex the next morning – which is sexual assault under Queensland law.

The alleged victim said she recognised Lehrmann – who introduced himself to her as “Bryce” – after he first appeared in court over allegations he raped Brittany Higgins in Parliament House.

So after recognising "Lehrmann" on TV it was reported as a rape allegation, positively identified, and apparently I'm the bad person for being cynical!

Much like allegations of racism, when we leave the definition of a crime to the alleged victim, those offended or those harbouring regrets we step onto a very slippery slope, and it seems now we should be very worried indeed that the concept of proof might be heading the same way, much closer to opinion than evidence! Crimes that can be settled in cash or come with exclusive contract$!

The plight of genuine victims is diminished by these cases, women (society) should take offense at the spurious claims as much of it seems driven by fame and dollars and it's not going to get better anytime soon. How long before this story is sold to the highest bidder, I expect Ten's wallet will be overflowing with dollars just to have the opportunity for a chat! There should be serious penalties for making false claims, you should lose all that was gained and some, the risk to reputation isn't enough, the people involved simply don't care about losing face!

Now on an adjacent point. Women(or some men for that matter) can wear padded bras, fake hair, fake tan, fake contact lenses, fake nails, corsets, ar5e lift underwear, thigh sculpting stockings, have nose jobs, boob lifts, neck tucks and any other number of synthetic surgery, they unzip and it's like the stay puff marshmallow man exiting pressure suit, and a guy is a bastard for using a fake name! If it's bogus and it fails as a tactic, what will happen, a change of hair colour, a change of makeup, a new address, .............. a new name?

Do you still wonder why the hard right is finding increasing support?

We should all be worried, because the hard right is prepared to lie as much as the extreme left, in the end they meet in the middle and all I can see in the result is anarchy.

The root cause and effect seems to be glossed over, people lie, social media promotes lying!

There must be a fair body of corroborating evidence if the case has gone this far.

Yes, that's what Wilkinson said about Higgins.

It's impossible to make a definitive decision based on the information that has been made public so far, doing so just exposes a bias. We saw this with the #MeToo movement, any number of additional accusers doesn't make something true.

I'm not for or against, I'm exposing two human traits, going early in error, and wanting to believe.

I notice the media was forced to apologise for using altered images of a politician.

The thing is the media types do stuff like this so often they can barely recognise themselves without retouching, so fake they have become that fake is normal.

Nine blamed AI but had to fess up after Adobe pointed out that the changes have to be authorised by a human.

Ms Purcell is an MP, but is she a politician?

And what a piece of work she is.

It's like most things technological. You can use it for good genuine purposes...or you can use it for bad deeds and evil.
Some of the idiots who use it for notoriety on a platform like Tik tok are genuinely bat shlt crazy with no thoughts of anyone but themselves.
I'd ban the thing but in the end it boils down to individual responsibility. You push an old man off a wharf and you deserve to spend a couple of years locked up.