Women are making a mistake if they think their daughters are at no risk if the ideas of "due process" and "presumption of innocence" are jettisoned. It won't just be men. Objects of mass persecutory hysteria tend to shift. These legal principles protect us all.
Women, in fact, have historically been more vulnerable to witch-hunts, which is why we use the word "witch-hunt." When people go nuts, they're as apt to do it in a misogynist way as a misandrist way. Women don't have to like or love men, or be related to them, to grasp the idea:
We've embedded these principles in our legal system because we know very well that human beings are prone to witch-hunts, lynching, mob violence, and wild irrationality. If you sincerely believe you could never be on the receiving end of that because you're a woman,
or a nice person, or someone who'd never hurt a fly, or someone who gets along with everyone, you're probably right. Odds are that you're right. But there's ample historic evidence to suggest the odds aren't "zero." Any woman who thinks she's at no risk of unjust persecution--
--because she's a woman is just not thinking this through. Imagine the power to ruin your employment prospects, to take away your liberty, to take away your kids--these are all things the state can do--in the hands of the person who hates you most. Your crazy ex.
Your jealous co-worker. Steve Bannon. Someone you fired. If all it takes to find you guilty--in the court of public opinion or a court of law--is one person's otherwise unsubstantiated allegation, you too run the risk of a "destroyed" life.
This is not about "men's rights." It's about human rights. If for some reason you really have to work at it to consider men fully human, imagine that the next wave of mass hysteria could well involve (and it has before) "child abuse."
Consider a very poised, tearful, and sincere-sounding witness insisting she'd seen you abuse your children--and voilà, the state takes your children away. Even though you say it didn't happen, and there's no other evidence. Do you like the sound of that world?
