why do women lie about rape?

calmly86 · 2025-10-04T12:26:00+00:00

Why? For the same reasons anyone, man or woman, adult or child lies about anything. In order to benefit from it or deflect blame and consequences.

HunterRenegade09 · 2025-10-04T12:36:50+00:00

Because they stand to gain a lot for little to no repercussions.

nahog2 · 2025-10-04T13:27:01+00:00

To some women it's not lying if they "feel" like they've been raped. Feelings turn into facts in a woman's mind

sambo_rambo · 2025-10-04T12:26:01+00:00

Same reason rapists rape. Power, retribution, and self gratification.

BIGRED______________ · 2025-10-04T12:37:13+00:00

Maybe you're divorcing their friend, and they want to make false accusations to impact the custody hearing on the friend's behalf...

NewMoonlightavenger · 2025-10-04T16:06:16+00:00

Because they can.

aigars2 · 2025-10-04T16:16:34+00:00

Because they can get away with it .

Okaydog97 · 2025-10-04T17:51:38+00:00

Look what happened to dani alves.

He went 3 years jail for false accusations.

Now I wonder what will happen to that female.

But sadly, that female won't get punishment.

TightRaisin9880 · 2025-10-04T12:27:33+00:00

What do you think? It is the selfish desire to destroy psychologically (and, consequently, also physically) an individual in which the one who perpetrates the deception has resentment for whatever reason. It is a motivation rooted in the latent tendency to hatred and aversion, from which they can only produce poisonous fruits for all those involved.

LittleLocation6893 · 2025-10-04T12:29:21+00:00

the same reasons they do anything. to manipulate and control the narrative. its the feminine god complex.

SmileWhenItHurts76 · 2025-10-04T12:41:47+00:00

Because you have full custody of the kids and they have felonies so they try to level the playing field.

TypicalNPC · 2025-10-05T05:26:03+00:00

The same reason governments continue to shit on their people, because they can.

Imagine if you had a button that could instantly ruin the life of anyone (who is a male) with a lie, and you would face zero repercussions if you were found out to be lying.

Women lie about rape because they want to ruin the life of the man they are accusing, and there is no consequence for it, and they stand to benefit from it.

If we imagine a world where women would face the same sentence a man would, or have to pay a hefty fine for lying about rape, there would be nearly zero rape accusations.

You can't hand a loaded gun to a child and expect them not to fire it.

Omz-bomz · 2025-10-04T12:36:04+00:00

There can be lots of reasons, Excuse, Revenge, narcisism, exploitation of power, misunderstanding, etc
The reason are as varied as the cases it is related to.

How you would find out if someone lied... That can be hard, and in some cases impossible.
And you just have to make up your mind if you trust what you have been told from either of the parties, and who you belive. Other than that, trying to catch out inconsistencies in their retelling of the events that can show that they are not truthful.

But unless you are sure that they lie, trust and support them until they try to use that support to maliciously attack the person. Do not be a pawn in their revenge, but rather support them as a person through the healing process and let the justice system deal with the perpetrator.

Sadly, sometimes that isn't the case, even with a clear cut case. But still, only support the victim, do not attack or slander the perpetrator.

maxxotwo · 2025-10-04T13:00:30+00:00

Because some people are evil and want to abuse and control others to their own benefit.

BeepBeepYeah7789 · 2025-10-04T13:12:49+00:00

Of the women who lie about rape, some do it for revenge, but I would say that the majority of them do it because of shame or regret.

khanspam · 2025-10-04T13:14:24+00:00

Desire to tell a story, start a drama, have something going on in their lives even if negative, eat someone's energy, feel alive.

addings0 · 2025-10-04T13:46:57+00:00

Vindictive spite, or regret doesn't want to be shamed for.

4444-uuuu · 2025-10-04T14:19:26+00:00

There are many different reasons. Rejection is a common one, EG the Columbia Mattress Girl was angry that the guy she hooked up with dated another woman instead of her. Other reasons are attention, money (the woman who accused Brian Banks made a lot of money by suing the school), revenge, regret, to cover up cheating (by claiming the man she cheated with raped her), etc.

There's no limit to the reasons. I remember a story of a woman making up a story about being raped because she needed an excuse to be late for work. And there was a story of a group of girls who falsely accused a boy just to bully him.

how would one find out?

usually we can't know because in most cases there isn't evidence. FYI, the feminist stat that "only 2-3% of accusations are false" is actually the number of cases PROVEN false. Obviously there are many more cases that can't be proven. But some ways that rape accusations have been proven false:

Brian Banks spent 5 years in prison and more time on the sex offender registry, then he met with his accuser and secretly recorded her admitting she lied.

Jackie from the Rolling Stone rape story had several things that didn't add up, including the fact that her "boyfriend" who participated in the gang rape wasn't a real person. She made him up to try to make another guy jealous and then claimed she was gang-raped for attention.

Sometimes it's caught on video. There was a gang rape accusation at a college 10 years ago where one of the guys had videotaped the whole thing which proved that the woman was enthusiastically consenting. The woman there had a boyfriend and she made up the rape accusations (which nearly destroyed the men's lives) because she was worried that her boyfriend would find out she cheated on him in a gangbang.

Alibis work too, EG if a man can prove that he wasn't anywhere near the woman when he allegedly raped her.

HeavenBlade117 · 2025-10-05T06:36:58+00:00

Lots of them (obligatory: "Not all") are highly vindictive from childhood.

There are plenty of them out there that grew up free of accountability to the point they figured out they could do just about anything they want and get away with it without even considering consequences or even basic responsibility.

So with that attitude and view in mind, it's incredibly easy to become very petty and vindictive and highly volatile and emotional. Especially to the point of toxicity, and even development of behavioral disorders.

Which is why the false SA accusations are so easy to consider because they quickly figured out how easily they can ruin your life and future on the mere accusation. No need for a carefully calculated story and situation when everyone is telling them to believe you automatically even if there is no evidence. So it's not that hard to consider how easy it is to just say "He did this to me." and watch how your image is destroyed. Even if you dont get arrested or processed, they know it'll kill and tank your reputation immediately so that's already enough to ruin you, even if just financially.

There's also the societal justification as well. I remember once reading a story from here on Reddit about this girl that lied and accused some random kid from school just because her and her girlfriends were sharing harassment stories and she didn't have one so she wanted to feel like part of the group. Some of them just plain out hate men, so they automatically believe and perceive some men as automatically being pervs or abusers, because their worldview is so distorted that they see SA and abuse everywhere, especially in their female friends, so anything perceivably SA they'll see it and even twist it that way. Like those posts of fathers hugging and kissing their daughters, there are vvomen out there that really do see that as SA and r@pe, they're that messed up in the head.

This is why I tell my bros to be very careful, with their words, their behaviour, etc because you never know when an accusation might come. So it's smart to keep receipts of everything and records of conversations.

Saw a Reddit story of this guy having an argument with a female colleague that he knew was going badly so he recorded the conversation privately and she actually said she was gonna accuse him of SA on the recording and when it came out he released the audio, never been so proud of a fellow bro. She knew how easy it was to accuse him, she knew what could happen, she did it anyways. Same thing with my own accusation from when I was 15, just an argument that went badly and next thing I knew I was fighting for my innocence with no one to vouch for me. It's that easy fellas. Watch yourselves 👍

frog_fried_rice · 2025-10-05T10:18:27+00:00

I remember when I was falsely accused. When the truth came out there were so many femcels who actually seemed disappointed that i turned out to be innocent and these same femcels started harassing me when I made it clear I wanted to sue her for defamation. Here Is an actual quote by one of them "she already admitted she lied and no harm was done if you sue for defamation thats just insecurity and a creepy revenge fantasy"

itsakon · 2025-10-04T12:58:19+00:00

For the same reason people rape, for one. Maybe the primary one. Convenience is another. Protecting reputation.

Also…
what if a woman kept coming on to me, touching me without consent, flirting. And I shouldn’t give in because I just started dating someone, but she’s really hot and I kinda wanna give in. And so I go back to her place, and we’re kissing and I’m gonna cut it off there, but then she kinda pushes me into the bedroom… we have sex but I’m not sure about it the next day. Feminism has created a culture that says this is rape if you’re a woman giving in.

Njaulv · 2025-10-04T13:49:23+00:00

Because they think they will benefit in some way, and they often do. They don't care that they are ruining someone's life.

flip69 · 2025-10-04T16:05:56+00:00

When I was younger I would go out and date different girls and then I’d start hearing things from a lot of them when they tell me of their sexual histories.

Many said that they were “raped” and I put that into quotes because while they’re were a few that I most certainly believed had been molested and abused as kids there were other that were taking a sexual situation and deflecting responsibility for it and calling it that because it their having sex on the first date went against the social rules.

It was so frequent that I started to wonder if there was something wrong with me because I had not “raped” someone (to my knowledge I was never accused of that) but it’s a screwed up thing to have so many girls at the time tell me that until I realized that most of it was just deflected blame and bad choices on their parts.

There’s another that I distinctly remember that had sex with 3 guys one weekend night. Coming Monday at school all 3 (who had very big mouths) told everyone about the new girl and how they took turns on her. Well, she was in a tight spot and so when others inquired (she was terrified of her church going mom would find out (a certainty) she took that option of saying it wasn’t what she wanted to do… “I didn’t want too” and that RAPIDLY spun into rape! When others told adults (as they’re taught to do in school) and so here come the councilors and the police to take statements.

And then the arrests and all 3 being thrown into juvenile hall… and the trial.

She went all the way to the day of trial before she recanted.

But it was the talk of the community and she had to leave town / state as he mother threw her out for being a sinner to go live with her dad.

Who those are all teen age kids But that’s some of what I’ve seen.

As adults I’ve heard of the word being tossed around pretty loosely and without consequences by women for a sexual encounter that they either liked or didn’t like.

I’ve had something that I had known well and trusted engage in a rape fantasy as we were having sex.

Life and relationships are not simple and there’s a LOT of contradictory shit that goes on in a woman’s mind… maybe that’s part of the reason what goes on in a bedroom has been a private space for so long where adults keep things private and out of society?

Notcreative345 · 2025-10-05T11:57:05+00:00

Attention or regret

laminated-papertowel · 2025-10-05T12:48:02+00:00

i was falsely accused of sexual harassment a few years ago, learned about it earlier this year. the girl insists she "doesn't know" why she lied about it, she just "got caught up in it".

Puzzleheaded_Card_71 · 2025-10-05T16:23:40+00:00

Because they use it as a tool to gain something.

Want an extreme example? I am keeping this vague on purpose, but I used to be in a remote place where if a female claimed rape she was given a free plane ticket to a large city to have the rape kit processed - we couldn’t do them where I was.

We finally got the ability to process rapes locally. When we did, the number of rapes reported plummeted. It was the free ticket and chance to load up on stuff not available locally that was the real reason.

In terms of lying about it - see if she followed through with having it charged and prosecuted. If a woman isn’t willing to that when the legal system is fully biased to help them, then you know something is likely amiss.

mikeg5417 · 2025-10-06T01:51:42+00:00

I had an uncle that was accused of raping my cousin a few days after his ex wife was investigated for severely beating their 8 year old son (same cousin), then throwing him out of the house in nothing but a pair of shorts. He walked a half mile to our grandmother's house, and she called the police.

The investigation of these claims was so shoddy that when they executed the search warrant at my grandmother's house (where my uncle lived) my 9 year old brother was present. The detective asked who he was, then walked him to the door and told him to "get lost". He was in my grandmother's care at the time (while my parents - both in law enforcement- were at work).

My uncle was charged with multiple counts of raping his own son, literally a few days after the founded abuse claims agInst his ex wife, and the detective didn't think to inquire or investigate whether there was another possible victim in the house where he lived.

The detective interviewed no one. Every one of the witnesses that testified on my uncles behalf he attempted to interview in the courthouse before their testimony.

During the trial, it came out that after the abuse incident, his ex wife, her mother, and her sister devised a revenge plot against him, even though he was away for work when my grandmother reported the abuse, and coached my cousin to make his statement.

It would take a book to detail all of the insanity in this case. But in the end, my uncle was aquitted on all charges by the judge (a bench trial). It cost him everything though. He never spoke to his sons again, and died a broken man a few years later.

Nothing happened to the women who concocted the accusations, even though the judge put it in the record that he believed it was a vicious lie.

Zombies4EvaDude · 2025-10-05T00:22:59+00:00

Well, I don’t think most women do, but the ones that lie likely do it for selfish reasons like financial gain from court cases, attention and support, revenge and spite, or all of the above. Humans are pathetic creatures.

Glum-Worldliness-919 · 2025-10-05T03:27:02+00:00

"OH no im a victim and I need you to wire money to my account because it was such a tramtic experience. please save me"

dexterpoo · 2025-10-06T01:31:32+00:00

I find it disgusting as a victim myself of sa it really bothers me when a guy or girl lies about it, like you’re not helping ANYONE.

Ill_Dot_7025 · 2025-10-04T13:11:23+00:00

So so many reasons

PassengerCultural421 · 2025-10-04T13:55:13+00:00

I think mostly due to regret, rather than wanting to come up with an evil plan. Which is still bad of course. I can argue that this is probably worse. At least with evil intent the woman can make up baseless claims. But with regret, the woman can feel like she raped after consenting to sex.

FluffyCategory11 · 2025-10-04T14:28:41+00:00

To get sympathy. To punish an ex or someone who dared to reject them. To hurt someone they hate. To avoid shame if they get pregnant or caught cheating.

The_0bserver · 2025-10-04T14:51:17+00:00

There's some terrible people out there. Gender doesn't separate that. I think its just those people being absolute garbage humans.

Sick-of-you-tbh · 2025-10-04T15:16:57+00:00

Free attention, sympathy, victim points. Plus they get to ruin a man’s life, something they tend to find entertaining.

Hound_of_Hell · 2025-10-04T19:22:56+00:00

The women who specifically do lie about it (Im not saying all women lie) do it to gain something. Whether it be money, assets, power, or even sympathy from others for a situation that didn’t happen.

CommodoreGirlfriend · 2025-10-04T21:48:24+00:00

The best way to catch them is with good old fashioned forensics. Alibis for suspects. DNA evidence. That sort of thing. False rape accusations are not automatically successful, and tend to succeed more against victims who cannot afford a good lawyer, or who are subject to other institutional biases. 60% of false accusations (ones that we can prove are false) are against black men^1,2.

As for why they do it, there seems to be some evolutionary conditioning to view outgroup males as rapists³. The cost for bearing a child are quite a bit higher for women than they are for men -- hormonal changes, risk of potentially deadly complications, and so on. It seems that natural selection has given us a tendency for women to be afraid of rape even in circumstances where there is no likelihood of rape. I'm not crazy about the idea of biological determinism (the belief that we can't overcome biology) but there is ample evidence that women discriminate more against outgroup males during ovulation, but this effect is reduced or even reversed for women who do not view themselves as vulnerable to sexual coercion^4,5.

In addition to the sources below, I highly recommend the book FRAMED, by John Grisham and Jim McCloskey. Grisham is, of course, a famous author, but what a lot of people don't know is that he's on the board of directors for the Innocence Project. Jim McCloskey is the founder of Centurion Ministries, and in my view, one of the greatest American heroes since World War 2.

Disclaimer: Please don't misunderstand me as saying that this is only a racial issue. What constitutes an "outgroup" can be completely arbitrary; sports fans are a good example. Actually, this theory was chiefly developed by a black psychologist at Harvard, trying to work out why the civil rights movement failed to achieve true equality. Along the way he discovered that his theories could be generalized to discrimination against other arbitrary social groups. It's my suspicion that this would include, for example, autistic men, short men, and trans women. What's very clear is that it doesn't seem to include rich men.

Sources:

https://innocenceproject.org/race-and-wrongful-conviction/
https://exonerationregistry.org/sites/exonerationregistry.org/files/documents/Updated%20CP%20-%20Race%20Report%20Preview%20(1).pdf.pdf)
Jim Sidanius, From intergroup discrimination to intergroup warfare: A gendered and social dominance perspective. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH93mdcgpNA
Navarette, et al., Race Bias Tracks Conception Risk Across the Menstrual Cycle, Psychological Science (2009), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02352.x
McDonald, M.M., et al., Mate choice preferences in an intergroup context: evidence for a sexual coercion threat-management system among women, Evolution and Human Behavior (2015), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2015.04.002

Falconoflight777 · 2025-10-04T22:09:03+00:00

For the sake of fragile ego to "punish" a men, for benefits, because lot of them are bad people, and the most important thing - because they can and they not gons get punished for this.

Mycroft033 · 2025-10-05T00:47:14+00:00

Because, fundamentally, humans will try to get away with 105% of what you allow them to. And like it or not, we allow a lot today in that area. Women don’t lie about it because they’re women, they lie about it because they’re human, and humans are flawed.

Don’t make the mistake that this “why” absolves anyone of responsibility for their actions, if anything, it increases their responsibility for their own actions. I ask you, who has the greater strength of character, the one who refuses to do the evil that is punished or the one who refuses to do the evil that is cheered? Therefore, the responsibility is in no way cleared.

But this explanation can help us understand why we got to where we got, and possibly how to get out of this. Here’s what you can quantifiably do, if you want to get our society out of this so we can all live better lives. You can’t fix all women, just yourself. So keep the attitude of innocent until proven guilty, and encourage everyone you can to do the same to the best of their abilities. If enough people do that, then society might change. A trickle of rocks is enough to start a landslide, after all.

humble_cyrus · 2025-10-05T02:53:24+00:00

Trevor Bauer got screwed..Lyndsey Hill didn't face any consequences.

Individual-Heart-719 · 2025-10-05T04:45:40+00:00

Say some woman hates her ex for whatever reason. Say she really wanted to absolutely fuck him over. Destroy his entire life for revenge.

It could also be for any other reason. They could regret having sex and feel humiliated by having slept with someone that they were iffy of who people found out about, and maybe in some vain attempt to restore their feelings or reputation she accuses them.

It could also be a cheater who was caught who wants to avoid the consequences of their actions. Plenty of reasons.

Now, If she did accuse him, what’s the worst that could happen for her? If the truth was found out, the most she would suffer is maybe a light perjury sentence and some reputational harm. Far more often than not baseless claims just get dismissed without any actual consequence, which also distorts the true number of actual fake claims that are reported in statistics.

But the man? Everything is gone. They lose their job, lose their reputation, and even if the man can beat the allegations, that accusation stays. Forever. And most people never forget it. No one who knows that man will ever not associate him with the word rape.

Women that lack any sense of morality do it because it’s effective and there are few if any consequences for doing so. Same goes for exaggerated abuse allegations.

Simplement_thrown · 2025-10-06T01:37:31+00:00

Because it's easy.

1amwam · 2025-10-06T20:37:20+00:00

Mostly, to solve a problem. Work performance down? Boss or coworker assaulted me. Pregnant? That guy raped me. Caught cheating? Rape. Accused of sexual assault? Reverse it.

There was a checklist that was used to rule out false allegations, responses had scores, total score over x meant likely a false allegation. She "blacked out"/can't remember parts? 2 points. Only reports vaginal insertion? 1 point (apparently if force is used, variety is common). Most points towards a false allegation? Whether or not it solved a problem for the accuser.

Nighttime_Effect7 · 2025-10-07T11:49:05+00:00

One of my friends is going through this right now. His ex (who he’s been amicable with for years, talking sometimes daily since they share 3 kids) accused him of rape after he broke the news that he was finally going to date another woman. She got hysterical. A week later she files a police report saying he’d raped her during a custody exchange //six months// earlier. Absolutely zero evidence. Just her accusation. The police write up a warrant, come arrest him. His career is over. Job fired him. Local news ablaze about it. Girlfriend leaves him. Zero evidence. The judge ordered a stay away order from the kids, since she claimed they were there when it happened. (They told the crisis interviewers they never saw or heard anything).

He had court yesterday, trying to get his bond reduced. 6 months of text messages before and after ‘that horrific day’ as the prosecutor called it. Normal talking, normal tone, no change at all before or afterwards. Even the supposed night, hours after it supposedly happened she texted him to make sure one of the boys took his antibiotic.
All the tone changes the day he tells her he has a girlfriend. Then the accusation comes. The judge lowered his bond by half, but should have thrown the entire thing out. By the end of the bond hearing it was so obviously just a vindictive ex angry that he was moving on, even the detective looked ashamed.

He’ll beat the charge, but his life has already been ruined. And there will be zero consequences for her.

This-Top7398 · 2025-10-04T12:48:03+00:00

Cuz their word is enough to put a man behind bars and sadly they can get away with it

Themannywillbe · 2025-10-04T15:53:18+00:00

Sympathy, wrath, push feminist Ideals

Usually it's because their story doesn't line up, but that still didn't stop Trump from being civilly convicted

vegan_realist · 2025-10-04T12:54:27+00:00

Women lie about everything, why will rape be an exception?

Have you seen the many incidents in news where mothers kill their children, sexually assault their own children, along with their lovers?

JubileeSupreme · 2025-10-04T13:45:40+00:00

One reason I know is true is the need for a "surrogate rapist". Women who lie about rape have often been raped or assaulted previously and they remain very angry about it. They have no means of resolving the matter with the true perpetrator so they construct a surrogate who takes the place, emotionally and socially, of the true perpetrator. It is a sad truth and one that would likely receive a very negative reaction if you ever suggested it in public. However, it is very common. Women who have been harmed seek closure, and surrogacy through an easily procured false accusation with little or no risk of retaliation (such as in Title IX scenarios) is very frequently how they go about it.

In such scenarios, they often have no desire for legal punishment. What they seek most of all is humiliation and permanent reputational damage of the surrogate as a means of attempting closure for unresolved past assaults, that may in fact have much more substance but no means of resolution.

Saluki2023 · 2025-10-04T14:05:22+00:00

Good topic. It seems that the benefits are appealing but it could also be mental instability.

Cloxxki · 2025-10-04T15:01:16+00:00

It's gone from shame to a power trip to affirm self value and easy way to fleece a man who didn't love her enough.

Royal_IDunno · 2025-10-04T15:33:07+00:00

To gain attention, sympathy, to destroy the man’s life and career. Also purely out of jealousy.

Specialist_Load_9953 · 2025-10-04T15:37:11+00:00

This is a very tough question; importantly first and foremost it’s integral that we show compassion to any victims that have suffered from the heinous crime of rape and highlight that asking this difficult question doesn’t or at least shouldn’t downplay their lived experience nor trauma. My heart has and always will go out to them.

However, not asking the question at all 'Why would any woman lie about being raped?', would also not be beneficial in achieving justice for all the current and future victims.

So why? Research suggests the reasons for false rape claims are complex and often overlap. False rape reports most commonly stem from:

1) Emotional gain - Such matters as seeking attention, elicit sympathy or maintaining victimhood.

2) Personal gain - Seeking financial benefits, material gain, or manipulating others for personal advantage.

3) Female Aggression; reputation destruction - The female equivalent of male physical aggression is to strategically transmit reputation-damaging social information, such as spreading rumors or lies, to harm a rival's appeal, social opportunities and sexuality.

4) Revenge - To punish an individual, often in the context of a deteriorating relationship.

5) Alibi - To create a cover for other actions, such as adultery, or to account for one's whereabouts at a specific time.

6) Regret - An individual might regret a consensual sexual act and falsely claim it was rape to avoid feelings of guilt, shame or embarrassment.

7) Disturbed mental state - An individual’s mental health issues or complex psychological factors such as false memories.

I’ve also always found it somewhat incredible that false rape allegations in most part are discussed as a men’s rights issue and rarely if ever form part of any feminism discourse. Considering that a single woman guilty of making a false rape allegation, very likely damages the credibility of hundreds if not thousands of other women, who are genuine victims; this should really be a hot topic for feminists. It could even be ‘argued’ that the ramifications from the actions of a single woman who’d lied is far more impactful number for women than men.

Unfortunately however, as the female victimhood mantra would be contradicted by openly acknowledging the possibility of female criminality and that women can be evil too; we never hear of movement wide condemnation from feminists for any woman fictitiously claiming to have been raped; in fact it’s not uncommon to hear some feminist voices share a rhetoric of defence, understanding and support for these criminals, whilst they’re bellowing out 'Believe All Women'.

EmirikolWoker · 2025-10-04T16:02:01+00:00

Here's a comment that references a study on the subject, with links thereof in the replies.

downvotevillain · 2025-10-05T00:25:59+00:00

There is a lot of reasons, attention being a big one, but the main one is power. Making a false allegation gives a woman power over a man, and a lot of women feel like they’re entitled to that. Also, there is a major problem with narcissism among women, essentially younger ones, and making a false allegation feeds into that.

So yeah, they do it as a power trip basically, the combination of the attention they receive and the negative impact it causes on someone else’s life makes them feel strong.

Scumbaggio1845 · 2025-10-05T00:41:54+00:00

Why does anyone lie about anything?

Initially typed a huge paragraph explaining the previous sentence but it stands for itself.

ra7388 · 2025-10-05T01:59:43+00:00

Fulfilling a fantasy?

genkernels · 2025-10-05T03:19:58+00:00

Here's some research on the first question. But basically "why would someone lie about anything?".

soldierboy3 · 2025-10-06T21:28:53+00:00

In order to benefits and I believe that there should be a order to take a test and a police report until 2 weeks from the date it happened as after 2 weeks the dna is gone

whatmeworry666 · 2025-10-07T07:12:39+00:00

What about prosecuting them for false allegations? Is that even possible?

Sinshalai · 2025-10-10T02:50:35+00:00

I knew a guy in the Navy who we all knew was a bit of a sleepy drunk. After a few, he'd pass out and have to be taken home, usually. He wasn't an angry, emotional, horny, or any other kind of drunk, just a sleepy one. He was also a good guy, one of the best workers I knew.

We had this girl also, who was a known lesbian and had a partner stationed in another state. She invited this guy over to her place, and from what I heard of the story, he passed out on her floor. Next morning, he wakes up fully clothed, nothing happened as far as he knows, he goes back to his barracks room to sleep it off.

Meanwhile, the girl had gone to NCIS to file a sexual assault claim. She got stationed in the same place as her female partner, while my friend got sent to the Navy's version of court-martial and had his career ruined.

Not saying for sure that she lied about it, but the facts sure don't look favorably on her story.

There are a number of reasons women lie about rape, but none of them are good, my friend.

catfishsam13 · 2025-10-10T11:18:15+00:00

They’ll lie about what time it is

Primary-Low-3816 · 2025-10-10T14:49:06+00:00

Power

WeEatBabies · 2025-10-04T12:45:38+00:00

To get the wifi password!

siddsp · 2025-10-04T12:32:38+00:00

That's not something women as a whole do. Only a small minority. Saying that "women lie about rape" is generalizing. Making false accusations can be for many reasons. If depends on the person and the case.

1HumanMale · 2025-10-04T14:02:58+00:00

This commentbounces around a little so sorry in advance There are many reasons. It's an easy way to avoid hard conversations, and when emotional they (the woman that falsely accuse men im not generalizing) resort to it and then it's too late to say anything otherwise (in their heads) or are afraid of the potential consequences . Some don't understand the consequences of false accusations because it doesn't apply to them and there are close to no repercussions for doing so. People will believe them, and anyone who rases a point otherwise is ridiculed and so nobody is going to say otherwise out of fear of cancel culture. It's not all women it's a few that are too afraid or just toxic enough to see it as a solution to their problems. I personally think woman who do need to go to prison for the time the victim/ victims served in the same level of prison/ the same conditions of you take 10 years away from someone congratulations you just lost 10 too. On the second part you won't find out it's never their fault due too " insert self serving non calmly thought out reasons here preferably through tears" Im sure I'm missing a few things. And on another note why the hell does this comment section think every woman is a toxic as all the nine hells, it's Just a very vocal few who end up on podcasts or have platforms

Intelligent_Leg_7080 · 2025-10-05T11:44:16+00:00

They don't

Title	why do women lie about rape?
Author	Upper-Ad9228
Upvotes	366
Comments	203
Date	October 4, 2025 12:21 PM UTC (10 months ago)
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