Why Is the British Sisterhood Quiet on Rotherham?

Since 2025 kicked off, one story has dominated both the media and discourse in the UK. 

The mass rape, grooming, and torture of underage white, working-class girls by predominantly, if not entirely, Muslim men of Pakistani origin. 

This, of course, is no newsflash. It’s been well-documented for a decade now how these kids were abused and mistreated. Not only at the hands of these depraved fiends but by the very people who should have protected them. 

Police officers, social workers, prosecutors the list goes on. Both the Labour and Conservative parties have been lambasted for mishandling the fallout from the revelations and failing to this day to hold a full and open inquiry.

Over the past week, video after video has appeared on my YouTube feed exposing how long this brutality was allowed to go on, unchecked and covered up, for fear of offending religious sensitivities and of appearing to be biased towards men of Pakistani extraction. 

The classist and sexist attitudes held about the victims as these were working-class girls from broken homes, often in vulnerable situations, they were deemed unworthy of protection from the law and justice from the courts.

No acknowledgment of the fact that almost all the victims were Caucasian, there is not only a sick misogyny at the heart of far too many Muslim communities but repulsive racism too. The white privilege for these young ladies would seem to be non-existent.

However, in all this shocking and horrific deluge, one thing has struck me the most. Where are all the feminists? To the best of my knowledge, there hasn’t been one women’s march in support of the victims or protest at the criminality of the mass rapists and the people who turned a blind eye. 

No sea of pink, woolly hats, or white or Handmaid–style bonnets lining the street or walking down a main thoroughfare like there was after Donald Trump’s inauguration or the overturning of Roe vs Wade. 

On that note, I must make it clear that when it comes to the next POTUS, my feelings are lukewarm and even as a consistent life ethicist, I have concerns about some of the laws regarding pregnancy in conservative parts of the US since the landmark Supreme Court ruling was overturned.

Modern-day feminism was created primarily by progressive middle-class women to be led by progressive middle-class women for progressive middle-class women. 

Like other political movements, it was always about power for a certain clique and never about equality for all. That is why prominent feminists give politicians like Bill Clinton a pass when it comes to his many transgressions, allegations of criminal misconduct, and his ties to convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. In return for legislative power and a public platform.

It is fair to say that along with all the other influential and powerful bastions in society, the feminist movement abandoned and allowed the white girls of Rotherham and other British cities to be sacrificial lambs on the altar of political correctness. Like the police et al, they didn’t want to appear racist, Islamophobic or anything even remotely anti-liberal.

When it came to speaking out for some of the most disenfranchised girls in society or staying silent so as not to aggrieve the feelings of a much more protected minority, they chose the latter and threw the former under the bus. So much for the sisterhood.

If it ever even existed in the first place.