While the abduction and murder of Sarah Everard was an appalling crime, we have yet to find out any of the underlying details. Was she targeted or just unlucky ? Did she have any previous connection with her murderer ? Was the man accused actually the murderer ? What was the motive ?
Given the huge volume of unknowns, the reaction of some members of the public, almost entirely of the 'female activist' variety, has been utterly unbelievable, even idiotic. Indeed, the way in which some people have reacted to every high profile such incident in recent times has become morbid and ridiculous in the extreme. Flowers left in huge rotting piles for local authorities to eventually clear away, candle lit vigils, protest marches and other displays of supposed public grief, often no more than opportunities for those with specific political aims to gain publicity for their causes.
Murder is rare. In the year to March 2020, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) there were 695 homicides in England and Wales, a figure which includes the 39 illegal would-be immigrants who were found in a lorry at Grays in Essex. The numbers can be broken down to 506 murders of men, an increase from 422 in 2019, and 188 of women, a reduction from 225 in the previous year. The total can be expressed as being under 12 murders per million of population, hardly an epidemic and surely not worthy of the ludicrous reaction and, of course, men are 3 times more likely to be murdered than women.
Although most of the victims of homicide were white, there were 105 murders amongst the black population, a rate of just under 50 per million of population, and 120 in other minority ethnic groups. Overall, 142 of the victims were in the 16-24 age group and 275 were killed by a sharp instrument such as a knife.
Women are considerably more likely to be the victims of domestic violence, with nearly half of all adult female victims being killed in such occurrences, the number being 81 in the year to March 2020. However, this was the lowest number recorded since the relevant data was first collected in 1977 and does not support the outlandish claims of feminist campaigners such as the Labour Member of Parliament, Jess Phillips, whose implications regarding the murders of women at the hands of men simply do not stand scrutiny; indeed, they are little short of outright lies.
While interviewing Phillips on his Sunday morning programme, Andrew Marr allowed her to make claims unchallenged and simply accepted her overall premise. Even when the National Statistician appeared, Marr's questioning continued along the same lines and there was no attempt to bring any balance to the situation. We were told that there is huge under-reporting of crimes against women but there was no consideration as to whether the same applied to men. Indeed, does anyone in authority actually care about unwelcome homosexual approaches, female bosses targeting male employees, punch-ups between men or even situations in which men are the humiliated victims of domestic abuse ? The answer seems to be no. In order to become a cause célèbre, victims need to be female or black.
The abduction and murder of Sarah Everard is a very rare event and yet we have the media conniving in the creation of a culture of fear amongst women. Women have been accosted on the streets by broadcasters determined to find anyone who claims to be frightened for their life in the light of the murder and yet seem to have made no effort to be balanced in their reporting. When we know more, it is quite likely that we will discover that Sarah Everard was not the victim of a random attack and that these now terrified women actually have nothing to be terrified about.
If anyone should be worried, it's the men, mostly white men, who are 3 times more likely to be the victims of murder and are much more likely to be murdered by friends, acquaintances or absolute strangers outside of the home. In reality, women are much more safe when outside than are their male counterparts, who are 4 times more likely to be killed while going about their daily, or nightly, business.
Despite the media headlines and claims of crazed feminists, men are not evil any more than are women. There are good and bad in both sexes and both have their share of very nasty people. Perhaps there are more really bad men than women, which is no doubt a consequence of genetic differences, but the modern drive to manufacture an entirely imagined environment in which women are victims and men the evil perpetrators of all manner of shocking crimes against them is simply wrong. We are assailed by wholly unsubstantiated claims that are simply accepted by media and politicians alike, with little apparent scrutiny but lots of subsequent intrusive and frequently insane legislation.
If men don't wake up and start fighting back, very soon, they will soon find themselves having to prove their innocence, rather than their female accusers needing to prove their guilt.
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