Well, Now -- From this Corner the Contender for Prize Hypocrisy -- Female Accusers of Male Sexual Predation

"This development reveals a stunning level of hypocrisy by Asia Argento,"
"At the very same time Argento was working on her own secret settlement for the alleged sexual abuse of a minor, she was positioning herself at the forefront of those condemning Mr. Weinstein, despite the fact that her sexual relationship with Mr. Weinstein was between two consenting adults which lasted for more than four years."
Weinstein attorney, Benjamin Brafman

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"It doesn’t really matter what I want."
"[The message sent to people who have been sexually assaulted after the two-and-a-half year saga is] don’t bother reporting. You are going to spend the next two, three years of your life being wrapped up in a system that really doesn’t care about you."
"[I] never needed any man to tell me whether I’ve been raped or not . . . . I still know what happened to me, and it doesn’t matter what the legal system thinks."
"I’m horrified by this entire system, not just by Zuker’s inadequate analysis of case law. The whole system is horrifying and people should be horrified."
"[Her self-incriminating text message...?] I didn't think it was relevant to him raping me."
Mandi Gray, teaching assistant, York University 

Mandi Gray, right, has said she probably wouldn’t participate in a new trial for Mustafa Ururyar, left, if one was ordered, noting the case has already taken two years of her life.  (Toronto Star / Alyshah Hasham and Anne-Marie Jackson)

Mandi Gray was a teaching assistant and graduate student at York University in Toronto who had an affair with Mustafa Ururyar, also a graduate student and teaching assistant there. Their casual affair in 2015 was of two weeks' duration, when they slept together with no otheer commitment of any kind. Completely consensual. From a party, she texted him, inviting him to come along to the pub: "Come drink and then we can have hot sex". He came, and they did. And she later failed to release the text message to Toronto Police when she accused Ururyar of raping her. He was originally convicted of sexual assault, but ultimately the conviction was overturned.

Another short story of false accusations has far greater repercussions in social media. The storm of revelations and accusations that erupted in Hollywood and then spread everywhere through the #MeToo movement when several actors, among them Asia Argento, accused Harvey Weinstein of raping them set a new standard in women finally getting their own back from men who had propositioned, manhandled, molested and raped them, usually from a position of power. Men in the entertainment business, in sports, in corporate life, high and mighty celebrities and local entrepreneurs alike, were accused and their lives forever changed.

Most of the accusations without doubt were credible, some veered on the edge of absurd with clumsiness being equated with violence. But there have been a number of occasions, such as the earlier court case with CBC's one-time darling Jian Ghomeshi -- whose ego led him to denigrate women and whose sexual appetite steered toward violent kinkiness -- was accused of rape. His lawyer revealed on the stand that the women accusing him sent cloying messages of endearment and conciliation to him, after the supposed rapes took place.

And now, Italian actor-producer Asia Argento, the first woman to publicly accuse Weinstein that led to a veritable landslide of other accusations, began the downward spiral of his life as a celebrated Hollywood producer, to a pathetic wreck of a man insisting he did nothing wrong, appears to have incriminating skeletons in her own designer closet. Child actor Jimmy Bennett was assaulted by her in a California hotel room in 2013; she at age 37, he 17, even while the age of consent in the state was 18.

While she accused Weinstein of rape, forcibly performing sex on her in a hotel room, she had committed rape on a child actor and settled with him afterward to the tune of $380,000 for his silence and agreeing that a photograph of them lying in bed together not be made public. However, once news became public of her accusation of Weinstein, Bennett, now 22, approached Argento to ask for $3.5 million in damages.

Child molesters are usually, but not always, men. Women are usually, but not always, the innocent party in forced violent sex. Women insist, and with good enough reason, that they be believed when they come forward with their accusations of man-handling of their intimate persons. And those women who falsely accuse men of molestation and sexual assault do no favours to the women who have genuinely suffered the misery of sexual assault.