Men just don't get it -- Barbara Biggs

Barbara Biggs has made an academic career out of her victimhood.
She couches her constant reiterations in well-written, seemingly heart-felt prose, and that has earned her a worldwide reputation as an expert on child protections. Given her own stated history, and how she states it, Barbara Biggs in the Last-person-on-Earth category of those who should be giving advice on raising children. Biggs may be an expert on victimhood, but that is not a worthwhile parental goal last time I looked.

Her own mother sold her into sexual slavery at the age of 14 to a barrister. A parent, in this case her mother, that would do that must have been a superb example during Biggs' formative years.
And Biggs shows the damage to her psyche years later. In the same article, she states that she was with the barrister for only 9 months, then refers to the "Vernon years."
You have to assume that Ms Biggs means from 14 until 27, from the article, if there is any sense to be made from the phrase "Vernon years", which is increasingly doubtful if you read more of what Ms Biggs says in other articles.

BARBARA BIGGS: Yes, of course. Of course they are. When I left Vernon's house - I was only there for nine months, but, um, he used to tell me over and over again that sex is what life's all about and wasn't I great because I knew that. So, I was emotionally needy. And Vernon was very kind to me in many ways. He...he acknowledged me, um... I had hormones running around my body, confusing everything. Um...at that age you're looking for a new adult identity, trying to work out what the adult world is about. I also formed an emotional attachment, "fell in love" with him, which is also...

Biggs chose to become a prostitute in Japan at the age of 18, which pretty much illustrates her state of mind. As she herself admits, some part of her remained 14 (or younger?) for many years. In fact, she admits that this retarded state of personal development has affected her all her life.

BARBARA BIGGS: Because I hadn't worked out at that stage that disassociated sex made me depressed because it catapulted me back into the Vernon years. And I wasn't conscious of that. I...I now have worked it out a bit more now. But, um, that emotional attachment that I felt when I was 14, that was warped attachment, kept resurfacing in my future relationships.

Biggs' whole life seems to be a search for acceptance in warped attachments. She finally found the acceptance she sought in the domestic violence industry. Here, she can use her intelligence and scholastic abilities to promote fear- and hate-mongering without the fear of being held responsible for her words.
In another article, Biggs remarkably states:

For example, there is barely a university in Australia that has a single unit specialising in child sexual abuse for any social work, psychology or criminal justice tertiary qualification. Why is this, when they know that 80 per cent of the clients of these graduates will have been sexually abused as children? People in prisons, alcoholics, family violence perpetrators, drug addicts, prostitutes, people with mental illnesses, the list goes on.

That little play on words is simply fear-mongering.
The same sort of fear-mongering that has plagued the justice and social systems of Australia for more than a decade because there doesn't seem to be one magistrate or political leader who was trained in critical thinking (or just has enough self-esteem to think for themselves?)
Although I might be willing to accept that 80% of the people in prisons, alcoholics, family violence perpetrators, drug addicts, prostitutes, people with mental illness, etc. have been abused, -- these are not 80% of the clients for social workers, psychologists or workers in the criminal justice fields.

There is a paradox here, an ugly one.
People who have not been abused come in contact with social workers, psychologists, and the law enforcement professions in their normal lives. In fact, domestic abuse and violence have been shown repeatedly to affect about 5% of the population. But because of the inferance of Ms Biggs' thinking, the people who have not been abused will be affected by abuse. They will be abused by the social workers, psychologists, and law enforcement professions! -- who are being trained to treat all people as abusers or victims.
This is the social crime of victim feminists like Ms Biggs.

This is a woman who has made the pain of her childhood and the bad choices she made in her early years into a career making people hate one another.

(from "Men don't get it over child abuse", by Barbara Biggs Herald Sun, September 20, 2006)

A judge said he had been unable to find in Queensland court transcripts any examples of badgering and humiliation of child witnesses.

Dr (a senior research fellow at Ballarat University, Caroline ) Taylor did not let the slight go unanswered. She said she had been approached by two Queensland magistrates.

They had told her of recent examples of just such instances in the courts of their colleagues.

A Family Court judge was then asked by Prof Freda Briggs why so many fathers in recent years had been awarded custody of children they had been accused of sexually abusing.

We were told the justification often presented to the Family Court was that the mother was hostile to her former partner.

Biggs has stated repeatedly that she opposes any form of shared custody when men are accused of abusing children or adults. (She repeats the statement in this article.)
Not proven to have abused anyone; or shown to have a history of any sort of abuse or violence; not with any single shread of evidence to support the mother's accusations -- All Biggs requires to remove a father from his child's life is the mother's accusation.

Although Biggs will admit that women abuse children too -- She'd have a hard time not admitting it, considering the actions of her own mother. -- she doesn't see that as reason to remove the mother from children's lives, even with hard evidence and outright convictions.

This a a champion of victim feminism, and one of the best examples why the tenets of victim feminism should not guide any reasonable decision in law or social policy.

They are considered to be acting against the best interests of the child and lose custody.

The anger and frustration of delegates was shown by widespread applause for the question.

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I came away feeling that the sooner this profession (the magistracy) introduced mandatory education on child sexual abuse, the fewer lives would be further damaged.

There must also be greater accountability of judges and more women elevated to the bench.

Women like you, Ms Biggs? You know in Victoria, Australia, you can become a magistrate. Maybe you should contact Rob Hulls and see if there's another opening in his Justice Department?
It would be a pitiful example of political leadership, but that's common in the Bracks administration in the Hulls Justice Department.

Although I could not agree more that there must be a greater accountability of judges, the idea of women being elevated to the bench based on their qualifications as victim feminists is, frankly, terrifying.
Here is a woman who wants to teach every magistrate in Australia, and I imagine the UK where she lives, to form relationships with the public based on her own warped, abusive experience.

Further, from the same article by Ms Biggs:

But as one famous social activist said, trying to get people to understand a need when their salary depends on their not understanding it is a difficult task.

Why do I have the feeling you are that "famous social activist", Ms Biggs? -- and you were just talking to yourself in the mirror?