Injunctions, which are gag orders, have been on the rise in Britain due to the appetite for salacious details concerning the lives of famous people, and the willingness of many people – mainly women according to Deech – to sell these details to tabloids.
Although voyeurism in modern media has been on the rise for some time, what is relatively new is the absolute shamelessness with which people peddle their stories to the press. British tabloids and American talk shows have grown raunchier and more explicit for years, sinking to levels heretofore unknown. In addition to this, the victim culture that has so thoroughly taken hold of Western womanhood appears to be giving women – including mercenary prostitutes – the sense that they can do no wrong as females, and therefore whatever shameful acts they took part in are no reflection on them, personally.
Baroness Deech:
I do blame women. In many of the cases of gagging orders we read about, women have sold their favours to celebrities and then have tried to make even more money out of the situation by offering to sell their “kiss and tell” stories to the papers.
This is no doubt an unpopular point of view on my part, but I feel quite ashamed by these women’s behaviour, although some say they have the right to “speak out” and “set the record straight.” What word do we have for women who make lots of money from illicit sex?
Sadly, contemporary society has so thoroughly failed to instill any sense of shame in women that it now falls to judges to order them to shut up under penalty of incarceration. These injunctions are unpopular with many in Britain due to their limitations on speech, and judges are coming under criticism for issuing them, but according to Deech they are in accordance with law that recognizes the right to privacy in family matters.
When one sees judges taking flak for having to deal with women in this manner, it suggests that the consequences of feminism and women’s lib are finally starting to inconvenience society at its highest levels.
Baroness Deech is a supporter of divorce reform, and has gone on record saying “Women’s position in society [has changed]. If women, quite rightly, expect equality in pay and employment and education, there is a difficulty in squaring that with the way they are pictured in the divorce courts.”
