Article claims false rape allegations: "serious, but rare"

2013-09-14T04:27:07+00:00

Honestly? It's true. Rape is also serious, but rare.

And, I was one taught in a feminist classroom, that once way people try and excuse sexism is by saying, "Well it is actually very minor." This comment was actually aimed towards me because I argued against the 70% gender wage gap.

So, the response to this is, "Is sexism OK if it only happens a little?"

All this article is trying to do is argue that "innocent until proven guilty" should not apply to women accusing men of crimes. It's despicable.

2013-09-14T10:58:24+00:00

They aren't really rare. They aren't common, in that an accusation is more likely to be honest (even if not correct) than deliberately false, but they aren't that rare.

5th_Law_of_Robotics · 2013-09-14T16:17:06+00:00

So over the review period 0.6% of all prosecutions involving allegations of rape were for false allegations. Crucially, this doesn't include allegations of rape that don't reach court and it doesn't apply to convictions for rape.

Got that? Only convictions for false allegations count and if a man is sent to jail while innocent he wasn't falsely accused.

So in other words this study is meaningless.

Number357 · 2013-09-14T00:06:46+00:00

I don't know about over there, but in the US they only prosecute for false rape accusations if there is hard evidence like a video tape, or a confession by the accuser. And even then they often don't prosecute (Hofstra had the not-rape on camera, still no prosecution). I'd like to see what percentage of rape accusations rate as "True" if we only count ones where the rape was caught on camera or the rapist freely confessed (ie, voluntarily came into the police station before being arrested or offered a plea bargain).

Yes, it's true that only a very small percentage of rape accusations are definitely false. But the fact that Feminists ignore is that only a small percentage are definitely true. The overwhelming majority of rape accusations are in a murky gray area where we can't determine whether they are true or false. It's absurd that Feminists seem to think every single one of the accusations in the uncertain category must automatically be true.

Title	Article claims false rape allegations: "serious, but rare"
Author	holland5
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Date	September 13, 2013 9:46 PM UTC (12 years ago)
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