UK: Where is equal treatment for male MPs?

Letter here. Excerpt:

'No feminist can be satisfied with the Pacetti and Andrews affairs. In the face of the demand by the feminist movement for absolute equality between men and women, these affairs tend to confirm the worst suspicions that male chauvinists hold.

Both men were politically blacklisted by the Liberal party and suffer the full glare of reputation- destroying publicity on the basis of accusations alone. The women levelling the accusations are kept from public view and maintain their party standing.
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Neither woman is prepared to publicly come forward and level accusations, saying they are "too traumatized" and "fearful of being exposed." What was that business about being equal again?

Sexual assault is not a laughing matter. We are supposed to take every allegation seriously because men are physically stronger than women. Yet we are supposed to accept the shredding of the reputations of two men by anonymous accusers without any kind of due process, any serious investigation, and in the face of direct denials by the accused.

Some feminists may see a kind of victory in this, but it is a pyrrhic victory. Women who are serious about sexual assault should be demanding equal treatment — for men as well as women.'

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