keldeon:venusexmachina:klubbhead:cisnowflake:mr-patriarchy-fuckface:patricianus-maximus:Buzzfeed: To
keldeon:venusexmachina:klubbhead:cisnowflake:mr-patriarchy-fuckface:patricianus-maximus:Buzzfeed: Top Five Ways We Like To Marginalize Victims Of False Rape Accusations By Saying That Other Bad Things Happen Sometimes Too.“I know you’ve lost your job, friends, and family members and you’ve been raped in prison. And then your mother committed suicide because she thought you were a rapist. It would have been way more likely that you died in a car crash.”Buzzfeed ignoring and downplaying inconvenient problems since forever.“Oh you think being falsely accused of raping someone is bad? Well, you could’ve gotten hit by a bus! Think about that.”Can you imagine if someone wrote an article titled “5 Things More Likely To Happen To You Than Rape”. I’m sure that’d go over well.“Oh, I’m sorry that you and your pregnant girlfriend were hounded and harassed constantly until a whole mob of vigilantes decided to try to take you out because a woman told them you were a rapist. I’m sorry you got beaten up and assaulted with a board full of nails in it. I’m also sorry that your girlfriend was pushed down by the mob so viciously that your unborn child died. But hey, it could have been worse, am I right?”And yes, this is a true story.“Oh, ma’am, I’m sorry that your mentally ill teenaged son was falsely accused of rape and couldn’t handle everything that was thrown at him so he committed suicide, but hey, it could have been…ma’am? Oh, you’ve killed yourself too.”And yes, that happened too.I could continue on and on and on here, but for some reason I have this feeling that @buzzfeed wouldn’t give a flying fuck. Hell, I doubt their statistics are even true anyway, because we don’t know the true number of false rape accusations. It just hasn’t been researched enough, let alone in an unbiased way that doesn’t just take the woman’s word for it.I’m a woman but I know too many people willing to ruin lives out of spite for false accusations. “No woman would ever lie about this” is naive at best. I have met woman who admit they would and do lie about this sort of thing as an act of revenge after bad break ups, ect. Hell, I’ve met mothers who call CPS on other mothers. Not because the child is actually being abused but because the two mothers stopped being friends and one was vindictive. In fact I’ve learned this happens a LOT and distracts from real child abuse.This Buzzfeed article is essentially saying “Know someone who was falsely accused of rape? Well, chances are he really did it. Statistically speaking we mean.” And those who ARE falsely accused it drives them into a deeper depression because it increases that shadow of doubt that hangs over them even when their name is cleared because “Why would anyone lie about that?” -- source link