From ‘Me Too’ To ‘Not Me’

Feminist silence about the UK rape gangs:

Whatever happened to the MeToo movement? It went from ‘believe all women’ to ‘I don’t believe them and I don’t care about them.’ That has clearly been the case with the 250,000 young white girls who have been horrifically kidnapped, assaulted, raped, tortured and even killed by the UK grooming gangs. Women’s groups are silent.

Recall that this movement advocating for women and standing against sexual violence has been around for two decades now and came to public prominence in 2017 when the sexual abuse allegations against Harvey Weinstein emerged. Actress Alyssa Milano and others used the hashtag MeToo to mobilise women to fight back against this evil.

Yet now with this appalling sexual assault and violence against women in the UK, it seems there are crickets chirping with all those who should be speaking out. The horrors of what has happened in the UK over a number of decades far outweighs the evils of Epstein Island.

This has especially been brought to light most recently by the Rupert Lowe inquiry, but it has gotten almost zero attention by all the usual suspects. Overwhelmingly the mainstream media is not covering it, and feminists and advocates for women’s rights seem to be deathly silent on all this.

Why is this? Why are a quarter million young female victims not being believed? Why are they just being ignored? Why does their testimony count for nothing? Why the selective outrage from the left, the media, and the feminists?

We know the answer: it does not fit the leftist narrative. If white Christian grooming gangs had been targeting non-white girls, entire cities would have been burned down by now as the left protested, marched and shouted from the rooftops.

But because non-white Muslims were mainly the ones doing these diabolical crimes, no one wants to say anything for fear of being seen as racist and Islamophobic. It seems that rape is not such a bad thing, but being viewed as a ‘racist’ is. The double standards and hypocrisy could not be more blatant – and disgusting.

Let me appeal to three different witnesses on this. First, Ayaan Hirsi Ali. She knows all about the poor treatment of women by Muslims, and recently discussed this in an article. The title of the piece is this: “Britain’s rape gangs and the failure of feminism”.

And the subtitle is as follows: “Today’s feminists often prioritize cultural sensitivity over girls’ safety. Their activism helped steer Britain away from addressing a yearslong rape crisis, writes Ayaan Hirsi Ali.” She began her article this way:

British feminism, once a universalist moral insurgency, now stands indicted by its own silence in the face of industrial-scale sexual abuse of vulnerable girls. The Rape Gang Inquiry, published Tuesday by Rupert Lowe of the right-wing Restore Britain party, documents a scandal that should have summoned the full ferocity of the UK’s feminist tradition. Yet the dominant institutions of “gender equality” mostly responded with caution, euphemism, and procedural language where plain moral speech was required. I was interviewed as part of the inquiry, and I have studied firsthand many of the failures it documents.

 

The horrifying stories covered in the report have been discussed throughout Britain for more than a decade, and one government after another has passed around blame, unable to explain why the state failed to stop the ruination of thousands of young women and girls. Yet an unlikely intervention helped bring the scandal back to the surface. Elon Musk began to discuss the story on X in January 2025 and demanded a fuller accounting from British authorities. His request spurred a new round of debate and launched the inquiry that culminated this week.

 

The Rape Gang Inquiry describes “the systematic targeting of vulnerable girls, overwhelmingly White British, by predominantly Muslim Pakistani gangs across towns and cities throughout the United Kingdom,” and concludes that “this scandal constitutes one of the most horrendous failures in the history of the country.” It documents “organised networks of perpetrators” who transported victims between locations, supplied them with alcohol and drugs, recorded their abuse for distribution and blackmail, and “passed girls between multiple adult men.” These crimes “have been committed for decades, since the 1950s by Pakistanis in particular, and have affected every region of our nation.”

She went on to say this:

But the absence of a coordinated, unembarrassed, angered feminist response on the scale this scandal demands is impossible to ignore. The inquiry is explicit: “The country now knows the full truth. The country has been given the basis for justice. The country has the roadmap to ensure these crimes never happen again.” Yet the response of the major women’s movements has been silence. https://www.thefp.com/p/ayaan-hirsi-ali-uk-rape-gangs

Witness number two is Rikki Schlott. Consider a piece she just penned on this: “New revelation about Muslim ‘grooming gangs’ is yet one more way progressives have let women down.” She begins her piece with these words:

In the UK, a reckoning is now underway after decades of left-wing feminists and activists ignoring the sexual abuse of young women at the hands of so-called “grooming gangs” — many of whom are made up of South Asian immigrants. For years, these vulnerable teens and young women were denied justice. And activists didn’t speak up for them because calling out these alleged assailants wouldn’t be politically correct.

 

It’s a symptom of a worldwide progressive instinct to put women second behind other “vulnerable” groups. Here in the US, feminists have sneered at women who say that they do not want transgender females in their bathrooms or locker rooms or prisons. It sends a message: Women are a protected class … unless they’re one-upped by another, supposedly more oppressed population. Then they become sacrificial lambs for the intersectional cause.

She continues:

You would think this sort of victimization would be a concern of feminists. Instead, it has largely been met with silence — because, in the world of progressive politics, calling out perpetrators who are members of a minority group is verboten.

 

Julie Bindel, a self-described “left-wing feminist concerned about child sexual abuse,” claimed that one of her editors at a premier British publication told her “we would be called racist if we publish” her factual reporting on grooming gangs.

 

Unfortunately, the few progressive feminists who did speak out were shamed and shut down. Labour MP Sarah Champion was forced to resign as shadow inquiries minister after she wrote an op-ed on the issue of grooming gangs. Her piece was described as “incendiary” and “dangerous” by a fellow female Labour MP Naz Shah.

Schlott concludes:

The leftist worldview that emphasizes identity politics and intersectionality also places groups on a hierarchy — and, unfortunately, these frequently non-white, Muslim and/or migrant groomers check more boxes than the disadvantaged young women they victimize. 

 

This pernicious trend is not all that different from what’s going on in the United States. Here, too, women are being told that their concerns about their own safety come second. Women who object to biological males in their private spaces and even prisons have been maligned as bigots and summarily canceled by lefty activists who are, ostensibly, feminists. You see, trans women outdo biological women in the victim hierarchy.

 

Women are so often asked to put their own needs, their concerns and even their own safety aside in favor of protecting other groups. None of this would be the case if the left could acknowledge something quite obvious: that calling out bad actors in a minority group is not bigotry — and, in fact, failing to call out predators and criminals is its own betrayal. https://nypost.com/2026/06/18/world-news/progressives-continue-to-let-women-down-with-victim-hierarchy/

My final witness is Gad Saad. He offers another way of looking at this blatant and appalling silence by those who should be at the forefront of condemning all this. He speaks of “suicidal empathy”. He brilliantly discusses this in his new book by that title and in his previous volume, The Parasitic Mind.

Both volumes offer helpful insights into what is happening in the West today. The closing line of Suicidal Empathy nicely highlights what we are experiencing here: “A society dies when it cares more about exhibiting infinite tolerance and empathy than invoking its survival instinct. It truly is that simple.”

And consider a recent tweet by Saad on X on what we see happening with the UK rape gangs and the shameful feminist silence: “The only thing that stops violent men from raping you and your society are other men who are equally willing to be violent in stopping the rapists. The West has decided that the highest virtue is to quietly comply with the destruction of your civilization because to do otherwise is bigoted toward the rapists. It really is that simple.”

All this is not going to end well unless we radically turn things around – and real soon.

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