WAS ZUKER TRYING TO MAKE THE LAW FAIR FOR WOMEN?

gency contraception Plan B, and reported to Toronto Police.

She didn’t tell the officers about the “hot sex” text to Ururyar, Gray testified, because she didn’t believe it was relevant, and besides, she’d immediately deleted all her texts to him.

But whatever one makes of the pair’s stories, Ururyar’s was not obviously less worthy of belief than Gray’s.

Ye t Zuker repeatedly snorted that Ururyar’s story “never happened.” He appeared to adopt as his own a line of questioning from prosecutor Jennifer Lofft, who had grilled Ururyar in cross-examination about his reaction to Gray’s purported touching of him at the bars.

“Did you scream?” she asked. “Did you yell? Did you fight back? Did you push her away? Did you get up and leave?”

(Had L off t treated a woman who was claiming assault with such scorn, she surely would have been vilified for perpetrating “rape myths”.)

In his 179 -page judgment, parts of which Zuker read aloud, he sarcastically referred to Gray’s alleged touching as “sexual assault No. 2” and “sexual assault No. 4”.

The judge was also dubious of the “open” relationship with Ururyar’s girlfriend (she testified to it at trial) and seemed offended by it.

But the why of the judge’s attitude is unanswered.

It may lie in his own activist background — he’s been an associate professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education for 34 years, almost as long as he’s been a judge — and leanings.

As he told the Toronto Sun in a 1993 profile, he’s always been interested in the inequities facing women. He co-wrote two books — the last one, in 1976, was called The Law is Not for Women — with the late activist June Callwood.

“I don’t know why I was so interested in this subject,” he told the Sun then, “but maybe it was the way I was raised. I just knew the differences weren’t fair.”

Was Zuker trying to make the law fair for women?

They sure thought so at OISE, which almost a week after his decision, was still celebrating it on the home page of its website.