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40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research
(theconversation.com)
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Okay, well those people are uncouth, uneducated troglodytes deserving of ridicule and scorn.
But we shouldn't conflate making an absolute claim such as "all women are liars" with making a particular claim such as "that particular woman is lying, because I didn't do the thing she is accusing me of."
Too often people treat any claim to innocence by an accused man as some misogynistic attack on all womankind. If a guy is innocent and gets accused of something, it's not misogynist to say "No, that's not true. I didn't do that."
The converse is also true about making absolute claims such as "No woman is a liar." It's simply divorced from reality, and all that it would take to disprove it is one example of a woman who lied. Emmett Till's accuser lied, did she not? That's just one famous example, but studies have shown that upwards of 5% of reported, official cases turn out to be demonstrably false accusations. That's 1 in 20, just of cases that make it to court.
The lesson is to avoid making absolute statements. It's not about "all women lie" or "no women lie," because both are false statements. It's about assessing the credibility of accusations on a particular, case-by-case basis. But people don't like when the answer is "it depends" or "it's complicated." They want some blanket solution which will always apply in every case, but that's just not how reality works.