Australia's Disgrace: Football Culture and Rape

Four Corners aired women speaking out against rape and degradation from footballers.  Since this occurred, Matthew Johns has been removed of the football show and fans have rallied in a brutal online attack against the women that spoke out.  One of the most common themes that have arisen is claims that they had made false allegations for money.  None of the women were paid and Four Corners were the ones that requested the interview.  Some of them were accused of "bragging", whilst others had publicly labeled them as "whores" and "head cases".

After this aired, "Clares" parents were informed by the media for the first time.  Just imagine if this was your daughter, who had finally spoken out against an incident that had left them emotionally destroyed after an incident that occurred seven years ago and the first person who told you was a journalist who had just entered the headlines, "She bragged about it".  This is what has happened in the past week, whilst football fans are petitioning to return one of the participants to a football show, lives are torn apart.

Women need to know that if their bodies are invaded by those without consent, that they have a right to be treated with dignity and equal access to justice.  The excuses that are made for the participant were appalling and degrading.  Much like the excuses made by Father rights groups about child sexual abuse.  

The Fact that if these women were to become pregnant from this incident, the Family Court can order them to become victimized over and over again.  As rapists have rights to children too.  As the shared parenting bill was brought in by a similar bunch of thugs, a "Unsubstantiated" was redefined as "False allegations" and if the victim or the victims parents could not accumulate more than what is required for a homicide, they were ordered costs to the alleged sex offender.  What is an outrage is that child and domestic violence advocates have been saying for years have provided a basket full of solutions in providing more evidence, but seldom has been done.  Years have gone by as more laws to protect abusers have been created against women and children whilst their lives have become unbearable and intolerable.  

The football supporters who have been apart of this violence supportive culture is a mere reflection on why rapists are walking around whilst a majority of the women's jail cells contain rape victims.  They have lost faith in society as a community and a disenchantment with the law that bred the in-just circumstances.  Australia's male dominated police force is ready to charge women but when it comes to situations such as rape and violence,  somehow their evidence is "not important".  The criminal justice system breeds injustice when there are more laws and clauses that can charge costs to  police for raising a complaint that was "not important".  What is more important to this system is "fraud and deception", the biggest crime from women.  How many have resorted to these acts to escape a perpetrator is not publicly known or even acknowledged.