Responsible_Finger Archive

Upvotes	Title	Category	Author	Subreddit	Date (UTC)

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0	Trial by social media is a thing now. This is going to ruin lives. This definitely could be a fake story, and a lot of these reddit posts are, but she may not want to talk about the details because it could be traumatic for her. I honestly think anything sexual happening between a 17-year-old and his 14-year-old cousin is very wrong, even if it isn't rape, and other women have accused him as well, so I think it's unlikely that he's innocent.	/r/MensRights	18/08/20 12:41 AM
2	Trial by social media is a thing now. This is going to ruin lives. It's also possible that she finds it difficult to describe the incident due to the trauma. You could be right, but the fact that other women have also accused him of sexual assault makes me think that he likely did do something. It can take a long time to accept that something like this happened, especially when the perpetrator is a family member, and there are a lot of cases where people only realise that they were abused years after it happened to them. I also don't think we should trivialise …	/r/MensRights	18/08/20 12:34 AM
2	Trial by social media is a thing now. This is going to ruin lives. If he did sexually assault multiple women, I don't think him losing his university place and being outed as a scumbag are unfair consequences.	/r/MensRights	18/08/20 12:20 AM
3	Trial by social media is a thing now. This is going to ruin lives. Minors may not be responsible enough to function as adults, but that doesn't excuse them from all moral wrongdoing . They are still capable of knowing that sexual assault is wrong, and you can be charged for rape from the age of 16 in the UK. If he'd done the same thing a year later (or less, we don't know exactly how old he was) after becoming a legal adult, would your opinion on this change? As for his life being ruined, I think being kicked out of University and potentially being ostracised b…	/r/MensRights	18/08/20 12:17 AM
2	Trial by social media is a thing now. This is going to ruin lives. It doesn't seem like he's changed if there are other women accusing him of the same thing four years later, and I really think most people know that sexual assault is wrong long before they turn 17.	/r/MensRights	17/08/20 11:52 PM
-4	Trial by social media is a thing now. This is going to ruin lives. I agree that it is a problem that one accusation on social media can ruin someone's life like this, as it certainly can and does lead to innocent people being punished. However, in this case, he was unlikely to be one of those innocent people, as he has been accused by multiple women, so I'd rather not defend him in particular, and I think we should be using news articles with actual confirmed incidents where the accused man was innocent to make this point about false accusations instead of a re…	/r/MensRights	17/08/20 02:04 AM
3	Trial by social media is a thing now. This is going to ruin lives. That is a good point, we don't know exactly what he did, but I disagree that it taking her four years to mention it means that what he did wasn't problematic. She said she was in denial about it, so she could have been traumatised and trying to bury the memory, and she's only just been able to accept the fact that it happened. It is certainly a problem when victims wait years before making these accusations, but I do think we have to understand that it isn't an easy thing to do, and I'd rather n…	/r/MensRights	17/08/20 01:54 AM
4	Trial by social media is a thing now. This is going to ruin lives. I agree, that's why I said it was wrong for him to be kicked out of his university without any kind of trial. What I meant when I said he probably deserved it is that the consequences for his actions (if he is guilty) are not unfair just because it was four years ago and he was 17, and he has apparently assaulted multiple other women as well. Of course there should be a trial, but he's unlikely to be innocent if he's being accused by multiple people, including his own cousin, so I think our conc…	/r/MensRights	17/08/20 01:44 AM
0	Trial by social media is a thing now. This is going to ruin lives. I don't think the police would have been able to do much about an assault that happened four years ago, and she says she was in denial about it for several years, so it wouldn't have been easy for her to report it at the time.	/r/MensRights	17/08/20 12:46 AM
9	Trial by social media is a thing now. This is going to ruin lives. Apparently other girls had been assaulted by him as well, and 17 is old enough to know that sexual assault is wrong, so I think he probably deserved it in this case, but it is wrong that he was kicked out of his university without any kind of trial.	/r/MensRights	17/08/20 12:35 AM