At 15, Jane was sexually assaulted by her lawn bowls coach the start of years of sexual impropriety in a sport that protected perpetrators and silenced her.
The Australian parliament and the Scott Morrison government are being rocked by an incident in which a young female adviser alleges she was raped in a minister’s office after returning from a night’s drinking with colleagues.
As a teenage boy I saw my mother beaten and assaulted as a result of domestic violence, so I’m the first to agree that women can be shamefully abused and victimised by men. At the same time, I refuse to believe society is riven with misogyny, that all men are guilty and that women are always passive victims.
As a result of the furore surrounding the alleged sexual assault in Canberra, one female commentator repeats the usual feminist tropes about women always being the victim of male dominance and exploitation. Without providing any evidence Caroline Overington, a journalist at