The Brittany Higgins wannabees

She told police that she didn’t give permission for him to ejaculate on her breasts but was forced to admit in court that she had lied in that police interview. Matters had asked if he could do this and she had said yes.  

There’s a lesson here for all the good folks convinced that the new sexual consent training will keep men out of trouble. They seem to believe that by being required to seek affirmative consent, men will protect themselves from claims of imposing their will on a woman. Oh, yeh?

That assumes women won’t turn around and lie about what happened. Here we have Alexander Matters, who was at the time a law student, and like all ANU students a graduate of the university’s compulsory sexual consent training. He was having sex with a woman whose job it was to encourage that training.

He was the very model of woke manhood. The very first time they had sex she became upset, he stopped, he comforted her, they did not continue. Party line perfect. On the night in question, he wanted a blow job, she said no, he heard her and moved on. He asked to go down on her, she agreed and so he did that. They then started to have intercourse, it was painful, she told him to slow down, and he did so. Exemplary behaviour.  

Then, Ms Advocate claimed, he slipped up. He allegedly failed to stop immediately which he claimed was because he was close to coming and overly excited, and continued for three more thrusts before stopping. But soon he was back to model behaviour. “Can I finish in your mouth?” he asked. She said no, he accepted that. “Can I finish on your tits?” and she said, “Sure, sure” (and later lied about this to police).

The simple fact is that even if men do the right thing every step of the way, women can lie about what happened. In this culture, simply because they are women they may well be believed.

After the case was dismissed, Steven Whybrow SC issued a statement saying he had written to the DPP before the trial “pointing out all the problems in this case with a view to avoiding these two young people having to go through this traumatic experience unnecessarily.” He added: “This was a case that did not need to proceed to trial.”

That’s likely be true of many Higgins copycat cases now winding their way through our court system but our public prosecutors appear to be too worried about the feminist mob to knock them back.

Alexander Matters is a lucky man. So far we are not seeing any surge in men being found guilty of sexual assault in our courts, despite an overall 13% national increase in reports in 2021, with a  53% bump in Tasmania and 35% in Queensland. 

Our juries are doing their job, looking at the evidence and judging the cases accordingly. But as the increasing number of Higgins Wannabees really hits our courts, we’ll see whether hung juries become more common as juries become ideological battlegrounds between feminist warriors and ordinary folk.