Peter MacDonald
The sight of 14-year-old Dundee girl Mayah Sommers standing up for herself and her sister has struck a chord across Britain. On social media, she is being compared to Joan of Arc, Boudica and William Wallace, brandishing a knife and tomahawk-style axe – the defiance of a warrior. Yet her courage also raises a hard question as many on social media are asking: where are the Scottish men today, once famed for defending their women and communities?
I see the silence of Scottish men as the result of centuries of deliberate suppression. Under leaders like William Wallace and Bonnie Prince Charlie, Scotland’s warrior clans once resisted English domination. After Culloden, betrayal from within doomed the Jacobite cause and the Highland way of life was deliberately broken. Kilts were outlawed, our culture suppressed and young men were conscripted as cannon fodder for the British Empire, thinning our numbers and removing potential threats to England.
In the 19th century, poverty was imposed as a deliberate policy. The Highland Clearances and scarcity of resources forced my ancestors into cities like Glasgow, where crime was encouraged and rivalry over limited resources turned once proud warriors against each other. Many Highlanders and Lowlanders were also forced to emigrate outward to Australia, Canada, the United States and New Zealand, further scattering our people and weakening the cohesion of Scottish communities at home. This continued the process of keeping men in check and rendering them impotent in defending their communities.
The physicality of Highland life, the harsh winters and the warrior culture of the clans produced men with high testosterone (cold weather increases testosterone in men) who were strong, resilient and capable of defending their families and land. That potential still simmers in Scottish men today, but political elites, globalist policies, criminalisation, alcoholism and economic precarity have kept warrior Scotsmen under control. Modern laws, hate-speech rules and selective arrests for online commentary make it dangerous to speak out. Authorities don’t arrest hordes of people at once: they come for individuals to create a palpable fear that keeps heads down and men silent. That is the intention of the hate-speech laws, to keep in check those men who are articulate and could rally others – the once warrior men of Scotland. By picking people off one by one, any potential resistance is stopped dead in its tracks before it even begins to build.
Today, that warrior energy is further contained by violence within the cities. Gang wars, street crime and murders among clansmen pit men against each other over limited resources, keeping their fighting nature turned inward. Scarcity, poverty and social instability have become the modern tools for controlling the warrior instinct. Meanwhile, political dissent on issues like immigration and immigrant-related crime is kept in check to ensure the broader population – especially men – remains hesitant to act or speak out.
This context explains why the Dundee girl’s actions resonate so widely. She confronts a man filming her and her sister – an immigrant – and commands him to stop before raising a knife and tomahawk-style axe in defence. The video of her speaking in her broad Scottish dialect had to be translated for many outside Scotland, but the defiance is unmistakable. Social media has turned her into a symbol of resistance, with colourful memes likening her to Scotland’s historical warriors.
Many ask: where are the men protecting women from the threats brought by unchecked migration? That question itself is a socially engineered construct, designed to blame the men of Scotland and label them as cowards. In reality, they are deliberately suppressed. A modern William Wallace, speaking out today, would be arrested or silenced before even beginning any resistance, simply for expressing his views online or trying to gather support. Any attempt to rally a following is immediately stifled.
The pattern is clear to me: from Culloden to the Highland Clearances, from urban gang wars to modern legal and social controls and from mass outward migration to colonies across the world, there has been a continuous non-stop effort to weaken the warrior men of Scotland, suppress their strength and neutralise their ability to protect their own.
The Dundee lass reminds us of the fighting spirit that still exists. She stands her ground, resisting like a lion against a pack of hyenas: a spark waiting for the day it can rise again. Until then, it falls to her courage to galvanise awareness of the threats to Scottish communities, their women and the culture that once defined Scotland.
Yet today, government authorities and the BBC mainstream media are in overdrive discrediting the Dundee Boudica. She was arrested for threatening with offensive weapons, while the immigrant filming her is being portrayed as the victim. This is classic perception management, exactly as Malcolm X warned: the media has the power to make the guilty appear good and the innocent appear bad, turning the brave defender into the offender and keeping communities, and especially men, silent and fearful of speaking out.
