The sheer amount of violence that women and children are expected to absorb as normal in order to maintain the illusion of a civilized society is honestly staggering to look at.
this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2026
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The law favors rapists. I realized a long time ago, just by women that I have known, that the statistics on rape are accurate and also low. I also realized that most men donβt understand that because they are not men who a woman would open up to about that. As for men who are worried about catching false charges, I would say that statistically you are more likely to get raped by another man than catch a fake charge. And because everything favors the rapist, he will probably get away with it.
As a man, I can confirm this. It took me being raped (and a few years of bottling it up to even consciously come to the realisation that I was indeed raped) to do away with nearly two decades of indirect conditioning by "lad culture" and mass media et al to see why it goes unreported most of the time.
(mind you I was raped by a woman, AND the same woman falsely accused me of rape, harassment, and a number of other awful things)
You are not alone in this brother. I was laughed out of my local police department when I attempted to file a report. I went back later when a woman officer was present and she took me seriously. Of course the court system was another story.
Thank you for sharing your story, I'm heartsick that you had to endure it. I can't imagine the extra amount of scrutiny in this case for you.
There are so many of us, Velma. I feel like the number of unreported rapes of men is far higher than that of women. You, as a woman, have a much higher chance of being believed than I do as a man. Which is a fucked up statistic to quote. "Being believed". But it remains true.
Edit: meaning theres probably way more rapes of women but proportionally, the report rate is probably way lower for men. Because we feel like no one will believe us.
Part of dismantling our rape culture is elevating menβs voices and stories as well. I want my son to know heβll be supported and believed if anything happens to him. I want victims to have the support they need regardless of gender, age, and status.
Itβs so fucked up the amount of prison rape jokes aimed at men, jokes about young boys getting lucky to have a woman teacher rape them, all of it. It harms boys and men as well as girls and women and everyone in between when we treat victims as if they asked to be raped or didnβt do enough to prevent it.
Iβm in your corner. You have my unwavering support π
Everyone has known a woman like this π₯Ί can't criticize what she's been through but she's out there perpetuating harm and you can't make her see that
It took my mom decades to see the truth about what happened to her as a little girl. She didn't tell my grandmother until a couple years ago. Heartbreaking.
It's one of the many reasons that blaming victims should be called out each and every time. It's imperative to be honest about these crimes and to believe victims when they come forward.
It's imperative to be honest about these crimes and to believe victims when they come forward.
That is also not without its problems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_lacrosse_rape_hoax?wprov=sfla1
The Duke case resulted from a journalist who thought doing an investigation would be the same as disbelieving a victim, and editors who agreed. Now rape-apologists have a bloody shirt to wave around.
I'm for provisionally believing people, but also not rushing to judgement in each and every case. We can do both.
The rate of false claims is much, much lower than actual rape and sexual assault. Itβs not non-existent, but we shouldnβt immediately assume a rape victim is lying.
More often than not, the default is to dismiss and downplay claims.
For the one case at Duke, I can pull dozens (probably hundreds) of real rape cases at universities.
The official FBI stats indicate that less than 5% of claims investigated turn out to be false. That's counting hoaxes, false alarms, and malicious reporting. I want to say they investigate around 388,000 reports annually on average so the combined number of events that don't turn out to be true is less than 20k and the number of purposely false claims is going to be a lot less than that.
Agreed!
I never really understood believe victims to mean punish the accused with no evidence beyond testimony, more that we don't need to loudly declare that victims are probably actually liars and offer support to people who clearly need it
Compassionately suspending judgment is not something we do well as a society. Battle lines are quickly drawn, sides chosen, and war begins before the jury is even seated.
We may not do it well right now, but we can change it.
Right, which is what makes misogyny such a bitch to bear
Yeah, I get why it happens. Declaring a unilateral truce isn't a winning strategy, either. That's why I said society as a whole has a problem; if one side instigates, the other has to respond. I don't really have a solution.
I'm not really sure what you mean. There aren't sides
Sure there are. There's a side that actively shouts down women who report, and there's naturally a side that wants those people to, you know, not do that.
Oh, right, you mean in the societal pettiness realm.
I guess none of us have really good solutions to human nature in general, but the best thing that I can think of to do is continue advocating for believing victims in the sense that I explained it earlier.
Now she's getting death threats because she dared speak up
I was horrified to see that she was swatted the other day. They literally tried to kill her by police.
Thank you for the added context :)
Missing context.
There it is, thank you JoMiran!
not sure what context this is supposed to add
The rapists.
I hadn't heard of it myself, so I thought it prudent after reading the Wikipedia.
Definitely the right move! My entire news feed is full of this particular case, but thatβs not true for everyone. I appreciate it!