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Originally Posted by polak
I don't know, it seems like it's a lot easier for a girl to ruin your life by claiming rape after you had consensual sex then any other accusation I could think of. Especially in the media. When it comes to rape allegations, the media throws "innocent until proven guilty" out the window immediatly. Make that girl underage and you might as well just give up.
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This mostly applies to high profile rape cases. In general, small town cases when a woman accuses someone of rape it is often swept under the rug--think of Steubenville. It only became a story because Anonymous (who have their issues, for certain, but in this case they did something good) found videos of how awful these guys were and made a huge fuss about it to draw attention to the problem.
As for the media always siding with the victim--again think of Steubenville. A whole arse-ton of the coverage after the boys were found guilty was sympathy for these "poor boys whose bright futures were ruined." Even in very visible cases with a lot of evidence, there are a lot of people who want to place blame with the victim.
When a woman is a victim of a sexual assault at the hands of a man, the issue is people claiming she's lying, just out to get them, "was asking for it," or some other such nonsense.
When a man is the victim of assault at the hands of a woman, he is degraded, made fun of, emasculated, etc. Both are problems. Period. Both cases are sexual assault, and both need to be handled better by our society.
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Originally Posted by polak
1% of fradulent cases (if that's the real number, plus however many people that haven't been exonerated) is still an issue. A very serious one for that matter.
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I'm less worried about the 1% of fraudulent cases and more worried about the percentage that 1) don't get reported to police or 2) don't result in an arrest or punishment for the rapist. For every 1 case of a falsely accused rape, I'd imagine there are a whole lot more cases of actual rape that go without even a single day of imprisonment for the rapist.