re: 5 girls falsely accuse boy of sexual assalt...

You should see all the allegations in child support cases. It’s unreal

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Godmode troll level.

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I’m not trolling anyone. I’m 100% correct, and there are a lot of men acting crazy in this thread. It isn’t my problem.

Rape is worse than false allegations, and rape is exponentially more common than false allegations. Men who deny this are either stupid or lying.

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rape is exponentially more common than false allegations

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Seems statistically impossible given the number of high profile cases which have been shown to be false.

And this type of language is part of the problem. It pits people who are concerned about their own interests in opposition to others who are concerned with their own perspective. What should be hoped for is more neutral language and an emphasis on due process for both potential victims.

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At any rate, I appreciate your level-headed approach. You seem like a nice person.

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aren't you the one calling everyone that offers an opinion that doesn't support your 100 % Crazy and unhinged ?

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They get such a high profile because they’re so rare. Surprised that isn’t obvious.

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Not so much. Generally the routine cases get maybe a day or two of coverage and disappear. The Duke and Virginia types stories were examples of high profile outrage in which the defendants were tried and found guilty in the court of public opinion and then only retroactively and begrudgingly found to be the opposite. The hum drum regular joe cases of the falsely convicted obviously get even less coverage.

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Im not taking the heat for that. It used to be almost all women who do this, but men are starting to do it, too, and it’s ridiculous:

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Claiming status as a victim has become the go to move for anyone who wants to be treated with respect in public forums of debate. I agree if you believe it is ridiculous in almost all cases.

Even people who survive the most severe forms of violence (e.g. attempted murder with mutilation/PTSD, etc) should probably not imprison themselves within the label of being a victim. They are people who were victimized in some way but it is not psychologically healthy to define yourself by the (or one of the) worst things to ever happen.

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It’s a known fact that women are raped often enough that they have to mitigate their risk regularly.

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I think you should re-examine every part of your assumptions here. Men in the United States are apparently raped in greater numbers than women (large amounts of this obviously in prison).

Violence including rape as a whole in the United States (and in almost all of the world) has also decreased steadily over recent decades. So I'm not sure where your idea comes from that women now have to adjust their behavior. Compared to when it was more dangerous and your chances of being a victim of violence were larger? That doesn't make much sense.

Perhaps you don't think this is a new thing or you even realize it happens much less now than it once did? Fair enough. But then you'd have to make the same type of platitude about men who take precautions to avoid being victims of violence (after all, violence is disproportionately likely to both be committed by men and to victimize men compared to women).

Which is also true, but being at risk of bad things happening to you is part of being in the world and interacting with other people and things.

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So I'm not sure where your idea comes from that women now have to adjust their behavior.

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No, I didn’t mean it like that at all. Yes, violence of virtually all types has decreased throughout history, but there has never been a time when women in general didn’t have to look out for wolves in the forest. Men simply have never had to protect themselves from the possibility of being falsely accused the way women have had to protect themselves from violent men.

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Men in the United States are apparently raped in greater numbers than women (large amounts of this obviously in prison).

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I wonder where you got that from. RAINN reports that 1 in 10 victims is male.

Whatever their perspective we should be very suspicious of any numbers coming from any advocacy group. if you want one of any number of more credible references you could consider the bureau of justice statistics. Their data were collected between 1973 and 2016.

In surveying households randomly for anonymous responses they found that 38% of respondents who identified a sexual history consistent with being raped were men. But that excluded the prison population. The numbers of people raped in prisons are also famously hard to obtain but the rates of incidence typically range from 5% to 40% among a population that is obviously disproportionately male (men are more likely to commit crimes than women and more likely than women to be sentenced to prison when they are tried).

The stereotype is of course that women do not rape men but it seems to turn out that when you ask questions in a gender blind manner and do not rule out a person as a perpetrator or victim on the basis of their gender the rates of sexual assault and rape even out a lot more than we might intuitively believe they would.

LINK

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Imbalanced, binary media coverage + dumb people watching too much tv are what cause the negative effect you mention

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No, false accusers cause the negative affect.

Thanks for the info.