Reply #84: there you go again [View All]

[salin]

presenting these two events as equal. In terms of frequency they are not.

A great majority of actual rapes never get reported.

A small minority of reported rapes turn out to be false accusations.

Thus the incident of being the victim of a false accusation is a miniscule percentage of the whole number of actual rapes.

To be sure false accusations happen, and that is an awful thing. Both for the victims of the accusations, and for the general cause - because it gives credence to the rape deniers who assume ALL reported rapes to be false accusations (because, perhaps, they view them as equally common incidents). The ugly ensuing treatment then hinders real victims from coming forward. And hence the cycle of the devastating but silent crime continues.