Original: https://spectator.com.au/2022/01/feminisms-embarrassing-fall-from-grace/

This is exceptionally murky territory, for me, here. Even "dangerous", in some sense.

This is why I didn't post about this, here or anywhere else, last year, when Grace was named "Australian of the Year", even though I thought about it. Because my... Connection, to Grace, is so close that I don't even want to go into it.

We're not friends, but it is about as close as you can come to knowing someone, without, uhh, really not being able to say anything. Put it this way, my "connection" to Grace, throughout my life, is closer than the other girl I mentioned the other day. So... This is a tough one. And I don't want anyone else, shared between Grace and I, to be exposed, so I really can't say anything else about that.

So, then... Grace was originally, legally known as "Jane Doe", because of a state law that prevented her from speaking out against the teacher who abused her, at school. Grace successfully fought to have that law overturned (I think her legal "helper" was a woman called Nina Funnel, who is worth a look in herself), and voila, she has been all over the media ever since...

Now, I initially supported Grace, in that fight, because I was convinced the law was archaic and immoral at best, and downright despicable at worst... And also because I know the woman who fought to have the abusive paedophile banned from the Uni campus (yeah, that happened), very well...

But then more came out.

Original:

This is exceptionally murky territory, for me, here. Even "dangerous", in some sense.

This is why I didn't post about this, here or anywhere else, last year, when Grace was named "Australian of the Year", even though I thought about it. Because my... Connection, to Grace, is so close that I don't even want to go into it.

We're not friends, but it is about as close as you can come to knowing someone, without, uhh, really not being able to say anything. Put it this way, my "connection" to Grace, throughout my life, is closer than the other girl I mentioned the other day. So... This is a tough one. And I don't want anyone else, shared between Grace and I, to be exposed, so I really can't say anything else about that.

So, then... Grace was originally, legally known as "Jane Doe", because of a state law that prevented her from speaking out against the teacher who abused her, at school. Grace successfully fought to have that law overturned (I think her legal "helper" was a woman called Nina Funnel, who is worth a look in herself), and voila, she has been all over the media ever since...

Now, I initially supported Grace, in that fight, because I was convinced the law was archaic and immoral at best, and downright despicable at worst... And also because I know the woman who fought to have the abusive paedophile banned from the Uni campus (yeah, that happened), very well...

But then more came out.