'False rape accusations exist, and they are a serious problem.' -Slate Magazine
09-20-2014, 10:10 AM
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http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/d...l#comments
I came across this article on Real Clear Politics, so I don't know if this is the type of stuff Slate usually publishes or what...
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False rape accusations are a lightning rod for a variety of reasons. Rape is a repugnant crime—and one for which the evidence often relies on one person’s word against another’s. Moreover, in the not-so-distant past, the belief that women routinely make up rape charges often led to appalling treatment of victims. However, in challenging what author and law professor Susan Estrich has called “the myth of the lying woman,” feminists have been creating their own counter-myth: that of the woman who never lies.
More than a quarter-century ago, feminist legal theorist Catharine MacKinnon wrote that “feminism is built on believing women’s accounts of sexual use and abuse by men”; today, Jessica Valenti urges us to “believe victims en masse,” because only then will we recognize the true prevalence of sexual assault. But a de facto presumption of guilt in alleged sexual offenses is as dangerous as a presumption of guilt in any crime, and for the same reasons: It upends the foundations on which our system of justice rests and creates a risk of ruining innocent lives.
http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/d...l#comments
I came across this article on Real Clear Politics, so I don't know if this is the type of stuff Slate usually publishes or what...