• rwhitisissle@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    as if attention and a positive agenda on this stuff was a bad thing

    This is culture war propaganda meant to make people think this problem - false rape accusations - is far more common than it actually is by putting a spotlight on it. Actual instances of rape - typically happening to women - never receive the degree of media attention as stories like this. Probably because rape is really fucking common and there are over 100,000 instances of reported rape (and rape is an infamously under-reported crime) by women in the United States alone every single year, most of which lead to no jail time, prosecution, or even a police investigation into offenders.

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      7 months ago

      Are you implying that there’s a competition for sympathy and understanding upon the two groups? And are you saying that young African-American men don’t get the shaft across this, and a variety of other situations?

      Stop and think about this stuff, if you can. Think about the fact that multiple harms can exist upon multiple people, with no “propaganda” being necessary to fuel any of that.

      That said, I *absolutely* agree that women are indeed typically the victims of rape. We hardly need statistics for that.

      Aside from my support upon these poor guys wrongly accused of rape, whose lives got destroyed by such, and my anger upon the reckless bitch in question… my support, empathy and understanding goes to women, everywhere.

      To me it’s completely unacceptable that women should have this many reasons for fear upon men. It’s a complete betrayal of our traditional societies, altho that’s a long… long story.