Moral Panic: The Irrationality of Slogans Such as "Believe Women" and "Believe Victims"

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Personal Anecdote

The above photo is of me—the left: taken during seventh or eighth grade, and the right: taken during adulthood. When living in the Southwest Cottage of a children’s home in both seventh and eighth grade, I was placed in a residential setting due to financial insupportability.

While there, I began intimate partner relationships with two girls who lived in the coed cottage. If memory serves, girl X was in my grade and girl Y was one grade below mine. Secretly, I engaged in kissing, embracing, and petting with both girls individually.

When girl Y discovered that girl X was romantically linked to me, she apparently devised a plan for revenge (a desire for vengeance or retribution) about which I was ignorant (resulting from or showing lack of knowledge or intelligence). Thus, they conspired against me.

Both girls initiated a Texas Child Protective Services (CPS) outcry for sexual assault (illegal sexual contact that usually involves force upon a person without consent or is inflicted upon a person who is incapable of giving consent, as because of age or physical or mental incapacity).

They also alleged rape (unlawful sexual activity and usually sexual intercourse carried out forcibly or under threat of injury against a person’s will or with a person who is beneath a certain age or incapable of valid consent, because of mental illness, mental deficiency, intoxication, unconsciousness, or deception).

I recall sitting in a room at the children’s home, being interrogated by a female CPS investigator. It was clear to me that the matter was female-led—initiated by girls X and Y, reported by a woman who was one of my houseparents, and investigated by a woman. I thought I was doomed!

While it was true that I’d engaged in consensual and independent sexual contact with both girls X and Y, I hadn’t sexually assaulted or raped anyone. Fortunately, girl X spoke truth in this regard. As the door of the room in which she was interviewed opened, she then left sobbing.

“Come on in, Deric,” the CPS investigator said, “[girl X] told me everything.” I was briefed about the plot, told that I was cleared of any wrongdoing, and advised that for the safety of all children in the cottage, I would be transferred to the San Jacinto Cottage (all-male).

Involuntarily required to leave behind my sister, I was reassigned to a level five all-male cottage for criminal offenders. Additionally, I lost all of my earned privileges concerning the token economy point system to which I was subject when living at the children’s home.

Despite having been cleared of wrongdoing, I was ostensibly punished. Meanwhile, girls X and Y maintained their earned points and receive no punishment for making false allegations (positive assertions, even of an unsupportable variety, especially regarding misconduct).

That was the first time I was non-credibly accused (to charge with a fault or offense) of sexual assault and rape, though unfortunately not the last. Pertaining to the second instance, concerning the most significant intimate partner relationship of my life, I stated in It Ends With Us:

“Yes, I did that,” the woman told LE [law enforcement] personnel who I called to our home after she’d thrown pictures, ripped a computer out of the wall, broke dishes, and struck me in the face with her hand. In turn, the police informed me that I’d be arrested if they were called again.

I forgave her for the IPV [intimate partner violence] episode and realized that I was in a hopeless situation, as I didn’t again contact LE officers for assistance. […]

“Uh, yes, I’m here with my ex and he’s got a gun,” the woman stated via telephone to 911. Seeking to retrieve sensitive documentation when exchanging a pistol taken from me without permission, the woman contacted LE and attempted to have me arrested for an alleged threat.

I’d recorded the entire event and when sharing the information with an on-scene LE officer, I was advised by the cop, “She’s trouble, be careful!”

“She accused you of physically abusing her, raping her, and sexually abusing [her child]. She told us, your family, the cops, and pretty much anyone who’d listen to her,” a mutual friend of the woman and I informed me. The character assassination campaign was underway.

I put out one proverbial fire after another, fully participating with the city police department, county sheriff’s deputies, and federal investigators at my national security jobsite.

My ex-partner alleged that I’d sexually assaulted and raped both her and her daughter who wasn’t even of school age. Those were outright lies! After extensive investigations and thousands of dollars spent disputing the false allegations, I was cleared of any wrongdoing.

The woman who accused me faced no repercussions for having apparently falsified her report and for ostensibly defaming me. Both photos above were from separate times when I was falsely accused regarding some of the most serious and heinous offences in the criminal justice system.

In both instances, females (i.e., girls and women) were believed (accepted as true, real, or valid, particularly in the absence of substantiation) to have been victims (individuals who are the target of another person’s violent, discriminatory, harassing, or assaultive behaviors).

However, as a male (i.e., boy and man), I wasn’t afforded the same benefit of belief. In fact, I was practically punished (i.e., stripped of points in the children’s home and having my security clearance placed on pause in adulthood while spending thousands of dollars for defense).

This difference in treatment—predicated solely on the basis of sex and gender—meets the standard of irrationality (the state, condition, or quality of lacking rational thought). Nevertheless, it’s the manner to which males have been treated in the United States (U.S.).

Admitting Bias Against Feminism

The American Psychological Association (APA) defines bias as “partiality: an inclination or predisposition for or against something.” According to the American Bar Association, “We all have biases that affect all aspects of our lives and the lives of others with whom we interact.”

Also, one source states, “Bias is a disproportionate weight in favor of or against an idea or thing, usually in a way that is inaccurate, closed-minded, prejudicial, or unfair. Biases can be innate or learned. People may develop biases for or against an individual, a group, or a belief.”

As fallible human beings have bias, I’ll admit something against which I’m biased: feminism (the supposed belief in and advocacy of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes expressed especially through organized activity on behalf of women’s rights and interests).

When I began identifying as a feminist, I valued that definition while supporting the position that “feminism is the radical notion that women are people.” Yet, that stance was merely a slogan (a word or phrase used to express a characteristic position or stand or a goal to be achieved).

I argue that feminism as an ideology and sociopolitical movement isn’t based on premises which are rational (in accordance with both logic and reason). As evidenced by my personal anecdote, males and females within the U.S. are ostensibly treated unequally (often favoring females).

Generally, regarding sexual assault and rape, girls and women enjoy the benefit of the doubt (the advantage derived from doubt about guilt, a possible error, or the weight of evidence). Therefore, I admit bias against feminism while opposing this ideology and social movement.

Importantly, I separate feminists (fallible humans who support or engage in feminism) from feminism (i.e., the ideology and social movement). Thus, I unconditionally accept the imperfection of feminists while rigorously attacking principles of feminism.

Moral Panic

Although I no longer subscribe to the tenets of feminism, perhaps because I don’t believe in its nonsense, I do maintain that women have personal agency (the capacity of individuals to act autonomously and make choices based on their beliefs, subjectivity, and prior experiences).

Similarly, I maintain that women are capable of assuming personal responsibility and accountability (collectively “ownership”). For improved understanding, responsibility is defined as the quality or state of being responsible, such as a moral, legal, or mental accountability.

Here, “responsible” is defined as liable to be called to account as the primary cause, motive, or agent, and being able to answer for one’s conduct and obligations—something, such as the demands of conscience or custom, that obligates one to a course of action.

Accountability is defined as the quality or state of being accountable, especially regarding an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one’s actions. Here, “accountable” is defined as subject to giving an account—a statement explaining one’s conduct.

When providing psychoeducational lessons on Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), a psychotherapeutic modality which arguably requires that one preferably should take personal ownership in order to reduce self-disturbance, I lean heavily on personal agency and ownership.

While the late psychologist Albert Ellis once stated that REBT supports “feminist therapy” (page 52), I’ll let feminism rest with him. I say this, because I argue that feminism fosters victimhood (i.e., victim mentality) rather than empowering females to value personal agency and ownership.

Per one source, “Victim mentality, victim complex or victimese is a psychological concept referring to a mindset in which a person, or group of people, tends to recognize or consider themselves a victim of the actions of others.” Girls X and Y assumed victimhood narratives.

The source continues, “The term is also used in reference to the tendency for blaming one’s misfortunes on somebody else’s misdeeds, which is also referred to as victimism. It can develop as a defense mechanism to cope with negative life events.” My ex also assumed this worldview.

Apparently, many of the females who were associated with the late Jeffrey Epstein, as well as their defenders, are now assuming the perspective of victim mentality. As I’ve observed the reactions of people to the Epstein files, I’ve watched only a couple people advocate rationality.

Surprisingly, journalist Michael Tracey and far-right political commentator Nick Fuentes have been the leading proponents for rational thinking in regard to following the evidence in Epstein’s affairs. For this, they’ve been labeled  with ad hominem character attacks (e.g., “pedophile”).

Personally, there’s no way to currently know who is or isn’t guilty of the more heinous crimes alleged in the case. Thus, I advocate weighing available evidence rather than engaging in moral panic, similar to the understood positions of Tracey and Fuentes. For context, one source states:

A moral panic, also called a social panic, is a widespread feeling of fear that some evil person or thing threatens the values, interests, or well-being of a community or society. It is “the process of arousing social concern over an issue”, usually elicited by moral entrepreneurs and sensational mass media coverage, and exacerbated by politicians and lawmakers.

The moral panic I’ve witnessed online and elsewhere in regard to the Epstein files is a matter of irrationality. Intrinsically interwoven into this illogical and unreasonable occurrence is victimhood, using delusional slogans such as “believe women” and “believe victims.”

“Believe Women” and “Believe Victims”

According to one source, “Believe women’ is an American political slogan arising out of the #MeToo movement. It refers to accepting women’s allegations of sexual harassment or sexual assault at face value.” This irrational slogan operates on the following syllogistic belief:

Form (modus ponens) –

If p, then q; p; therefore, q.

Example –

If females lack personal agency and ownership while males are automatically assumed guilty (p), then girls and women absolutely must be believed prima facie (q).

Females lack personal agency and ownership while males are automatically assumed guilty (p).

Therefore, girls and women absolutely must be believed prima facie (q).

Personally, this belief is sexist (prejudicial or discriminatory based on sex—either of the two major forms of individuals that occur in many species and that are distinguished respectively as female or male especially on the basis of their reproductive organs and structures).

I’m grateful that the CPS and LE investigators within my past didn’t “believe [girls or] women” at face value. After all, it’s a matter of irrationality to believe that females aren’t capable of lying, exercising agency, assuming responsibility, and accepting accountability.

This includes the choices made by girls and women who are deceitful about their role in victimhood events. For clarity, I don’t fault anyone regarding the age of minority who has been preyed upon by an adult. Nevertheless, I’m aware that even children are capable of lying.

Therefore, I stress the importance of examining evidence when claims are made. This is logical and reasonable regarding both children and adults! Irrationally, some feminists (and feminist-adjacent) people disagree. For example, author Molly Jong-Fast states in one source:

It’s so weird and grim to watch the feminism I grew up with being weaponized against democratic values. My mother, the author Erica Jong, is a second-wave feminist pioneer; I don’t think she could have imagined in her wildest nightmares this weird, fake-feminist clusterfuck we find ourselves in. Somehow, genderwashing has created an army of women fighting for the chance to oppress one another.

While Jong-Fast’s perspective is common of the feminists with whom I once associated, I don’t maintain that it’s much more than bemoaning the current sociopolitical feminist wave. Nevertheless, where the Epstein files are concerned, the author states:

Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna had to force this D.O.J. [U.S. Department of Justice] to release these files. “Today is the first day of real reckoning for the Epstein class.” “This is who you’re fighting for.”

The F.B.I. [Federal Bureau of Investigation] did not believe women. They did not believe women in the ’90s. They did not believe women in the 2000s and 2010s and 2020s. They did not believe women. And these weren’t even women; they were really children.

And the F.B.I. just didn’t want to hear it. And so what’s so upsetting to me is just how little weight these women’s experience was given. He’s [Epstein] probably going to be one of the largest sex traffickers in American history, and it could have been stopped 20 years ago.

While I agree with Jong-Fast’s outlook regarding how Massie and Khanna were largely responsible for the release of the Epstein files—and I genuinely applaud their efforts, I disagree with the irrationality of a “believe women” standard, as well as believing children prima facie.

Instead, I maintain a listen, take notes, gather evidence, and proceeding forward method of rational living. Otherwise, the moral panic that surrounds the Epstein saga will allow for women (i.e., 18-years-old and older) who voluntarily recruited on behalf of Epstein to escape justice.

“Oh, I’m a victim,” a former adult female who recruited girls and women on behalf of Epstein could plausibly declare, “so you absolutely must believe me rather than following evidence to assess my victimization.” GTFOH! That’s not how a constitutional system of justice functions!

Of course, some people who espouse anti-constitutional feminist rhetoric may perceive standards of justice as an attack on so-called victims who haven’t had their victim accounts substantiated. For instance, one source states:

It’s huge from an emotional standpoint a victim goes through a huge emotional trauma just reporting what she has been through or he has been through. Latest government statistics show that one out of every three women, literally, if you are in the room with three women, one of them was likely subjected to some kind of sexual trauma in their life, and one out of every five men, by the way, also according to government statistics.

And what happens is that these young women, for example, in this case, that report this, when they’re met with denials, accusations, attacks, all it does is drive them deeper into a depression because they know the truth. I think what it teaches us as a society is that we have to believe victims and what they’re telling us because it takes a huge amount of bravery to even come forward and report these types of things.

I think that if that had occurred, if people had believed victims, then they would’ve been able to work through the healing process. Part of what I do as an advocate for victims in the civil arena is I listen to victims and I believe them.

First, the “one out of every three women” statistic is a misrepresentation, as it regards “sexual trauma.” The statistical source offered links to a World Health Organization article from 2021, regarding “violence,” not specifically sexual trauma. Is this deliberate obfuscation?

A separate source claims, “One-third of sexual assault allegations in the criminal setting are unfounded.” I can say without a doubt that the claims of my accusers in both childhood and adulthood were unfounded! In any event, I stated in Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics:

When I was in graduate school for social work, a startling statistic dripped from the lips of many female students with whom I attended classes. Apparently, during college, 1 in 4 women would be raped while 1 in 3 women were said to be sexually abused at some point during their lifetime.

[…] [S]tatistical data didn’t manifest out of thin air. As an example, “The Campus Sexual Assault (CSA) Study” painted a grim picture of college campus rape. […]

According to one source which critiques the shortcomings of the CSA and similar surveys:

Other critics have focused not so much on the limited scope of the survey, but rather its broad definition of sexual assault, which includes kissing and groping. The study’s definition of sexual assault includes both rape — described as oral, anal, and vaginal penetration — and sexual battery, which was described as “sexual contact only, such as forced kissing and fondling.” Some argue that an unwanted kiss should not be conflated with other kinds of more severe sexual assault or rape.

I argue that a grandmother who forcefully kisses her grandchildren on the cheek has not sexually assaulted or raped the children. As well, sexual assault in the form of forced groping isn’t the same thing as forced anal penetration. Conflation of these terms skews statistical data.

The “one out of every three women” sexual victimization statistic is invalid. Second, women who report being victims are often investigated, because that’s how investigation works. This isn’t inherently akin to “denials, accusations, attacks,” as proposed by the cited source.

As an example, when girls X and Y alleged that I sexually violated them, all of us were investigated as a method of determining truth. That’s an integral component of the investigatory process. I know this, because I was in LE when enlisted in the Marine Corps (1996-2007).

Last, regarding the cited source, a “believe victims” standard of justice isn’t actual injustice. This sort of irrationality functions along the same premises as a “believe women” narrative that infers one absolutely must believe all women prima facie. Apparently, no investigation is needed.

For the sake of argument, suppose that the CPS investigator from my youth assumed a “believe victims” narrative. There would’ve been no reason to ascertain truth about reality. She simply would’ve heard what girls X and Y had to say, and my life would’ve been forever altered.

Is that irrational method of living one that serves the interests of society? Are adult-aged so-called victims of Epstein who are believed to have recruited females to be believed, simply because they’re women? Are they actual “victims” if they willingly participated in crimes?

As a nation, are we to simply slap the label of “victim” on any woman who alleges anything, anytime, and anywhere—case closed, no investigation? Are we to further label anyone who advocates rational thinking about such matters through use of ad hominem attacks?

In conclusion, I don’t care what petty character attack people want to use toward me. I’m advocating justice (the process or result of using laws to fairly judge cases, redress wrongs, and punish crimes), not belief (i.e., blind confidence placed in something or someone).

I don’t believe women, victims, men, girls, boys, or otherwise. Rather, I hear what is stated and assess evidence. This is how I practice REBT. This is how I live my life. And this is how I regard the Epstein files irrespective of whether or not my stance against moral panic is popular.

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