https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/doordash-driver-livie-rose-henderson-181801173.html

The above situation is the most recent me too movement example with a woman DoorDash deliverer claiming she was sexually assaulted when she went to drop off a food order at the door, but the door was wide open and the man was naked on the couch. Turns out she lied about it, and actually opened the man’s door to record him in order to gain sympathy. Looking at her complete profile and history, she has evidence that she wanted to be Internet famous, and had a TikTok that she was trying to grow.

This occurs with any positive social movement or charity structure. The more awareness and availability you bring to it, the more there will be bad individuals who try to exploit the system in order to have personal gain. It’s exactly why as GoFundMe got bigger, the amount of fraudulent and misleading campaigns grew exponentially. Because of that every donation website has a disclaimer to review campaigns for accuracy and substance, and has a moderation team to take down fake requests. The same thing has happened with every major positive social movement as bad actors take advantage.

As such, the phrase “believe all women” can never be true, and women should recognize that as they push more awareness, more bad actor women will emerge and the more men’s fears are substantiated. The reason for this is that with the more awareness that is brought, the more the potential reward and audience is for someone looking to exploit. Statistically then you can never argue then women would never do this because we have clear examples like above of a woman doing it, nor can you argue that you should believe all women because the incentive to lie is increasing as the movement gets bigger.

Critically I don’t think this means the movement should stop or be shrunken down, as it’s not a good argument to not care about safety. However, if you’re a woman that says you should believe all women, you’re conveniently ignoring clear examples of exploitation.