I'd also suggest that we should have a legal system that acts to protect men from false allegations
We already have a legal system that acts in an incredibly effective way to protect almost all men from almost all rape allegations regardless of whether they're false or true. If you think it needs to be made even more effective at protecting men from false rape allegations and are willing to sacrifice even a fraction of a percent of true allegations (the overwhelming number) to achieve this then just stop responding now, your perspective is so fucked up on this that it's untrue. And you are - because you're willing to derail this post at the cost of getting a point across that we've all heard a million times before.
Just imagine, if you can, an alternative system. In this system, the definition of rape is "if she said you raped her, you are guilty, and you go to jail". Try to imagine you're a heterosexual man living under this system. How safe do you feel? How careful are you going to be approaching a woman? How utterly alone do you feel if someone decides to wreck your life? How completely unfair is this system, and how much does it dominate the way you think, act and fuck?
Welcome to the world some women (some men, too, and very many people of other genders) live in. Rape is fundamentally unlike almost any other crime. When there are no witnesses and no supporting evidence (like: most of the time) then it's one person's word against another. Our current system ensures that the rapist always gets away scot-free. The right not to be falsely accused of rape? How about the right not to be raped at any time by any man with absolutely no defense? The current system, with regards to rape, is utterly and completely broken.
The solution obviously isn't a system where we treat every accusation as immediately carrying a full-term jail sentence, despite the fact that this is the only system I can imagine which could possibly end rape immediately.
But we can start when men recognise the overwhelming bias of the court system towards rapists. When people stop to read posts like emanix's here without the need to mansplain and derail, and just listen. What the fuck does your comment even have to do with their posts except for saying "WHAT ABOUT THE MENS"?
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Date: 2010-11-11 11:49 am (UTC)We already have a legal system that acts in an incredibly effective way to protect almost all men from almost all rape allegations regardless of whether they're false or true. If you think it needs to be made even more effective at protecting men from false rape allegations and are willing to sacrifice even a fraction of a percent of true allegations (the overwhelming number) to achieve this then just stop responding now, your perspective is so fucked up on this that it's untrue. And you are - because you're willing to derail this post at the cost of getting a point across that we've all heard a million times before.
Just imagine, if you can, an alternative system. In this system, the definition of rape is "if she said you raped her, you are guilty, and you go to jail". Try to imagine you're a heterosexual man living under this system. How safe do you feel? How careful are you going to be approaching a woman? How utterly alone do you feel if someone decides to wreck your life? How completely unfair is this system, and how much does it dominate the way you think, act and fuck?
Welcome to the world some women (some men, too, and very many people of other genders) live in. Rape is fundamentally unlike almost any other crime. When there are no witnesses and no supporting evidence (like: most of the time) then it's one person's word against another. Our current system ensures that the rapist always gets away scot-free. The right not to be falsely accused of rape? How about the right not to be raped at any time by any man with absolutely no defense? The current system, with regards to rape, is utterly and completely broken.
The solution obviously isn't a system where we treat every accusation as immediately carrying a full-term jail sentence, despite the fact that this is the only system I can imagine which could possibly end rape immediately.
But we can start when men recognise the overwhelming bias of the court system towards rapists. When people stop to read posts like