Things like this, defines what society is these days. Someone accuses someone of underage rape/ sex, then that accuser is by default 100% correct - even if there is no evidence.
Even if this is occurred several years back, it is a bigger problem these days. As the accused person always has the lower ground - even if they're innocent.
sometimes men are convicted of sexual assault wrongly, but these cases are few and far between, and are an insignificant fraction compared to the number of sexual assaults committed. Believe women.
edit: did I fucking stutter? BELIEVE WOMEN!
Since it sounds like some of you are at a loss for words, I just want to mention that I am a cishet guy who was scared if false accusations until I looked into how unbelievably rare they are when compared to the actual problem of legitimate sexual assault and rape cases. I’ve been falsely accused of rape, from another guy, when arguing about this very topic. I never went anywhere, other than him privately messaging me afterwards to tell me how correct I was (after getting his ass handed to him by the women in his life, no dobut).
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it’s terrible this guy went to jail when he was innocent. truly. I feel for him. Sincerely.
This post still feels like agenda pushing, agendas which i elaborate on below.
Often, men are so fearful of the idea of false accusations of rape that they create a culture of fear in other men by posting scary stories, usually trying to redpill them into downplaying and disbelieving the women in their lives when they explain that they have been raped by other men. Survivors of sexual assualts already feel like they won’t be believed, they are often told if they will be killed if word gets out. Rapists are often well-adjusted-presenting men who you wouldn’t otherwise think were rapists. When someone says they have been sexually assaulted, believe them! When you learn that this happens to women a lot more than it happens to men, maybe you’ll understand why the #metoo “movement” asked one thing of men: believe women. It was a tag originally meant for other survivors, but when you saw more women posting it, maybe you failed to realize many of them were saying “I too have been raped” and not “I support the #metoo movement”.
men can be raped by any gender. it doesn’t make them any less of a man. there aren’t enough men’s shelters of intimate partner violence / domestic abuse and that is a real problem. Gender separation in these shelters makes sense, but if you care about men who were wrongfully abusedstart addressing this problem first and build more men-only shelters.
“Believe women” does not mean “always believe women over men”. It means, in this context, to accept that when a woman says she has been sexually abused, raped or harassed, she isn’t lying about it.
Outrage what happened to this guy is fine, but put it in perspective. Or, tell the women in your life how much of a shame it is that this guy was imprisoned. make the fear of false imprisonment for rape known and see how she responds. Report back and let me know if you still have a woman in your life. It’s that bad.
Women are tired of explaining this to dudes. That’s why I am explaining it to dudes.