Barkingturtle wrote:
In short, I still hate rapists more than lying, dirty whores, and by a wide margin, but I take some offense at your assertion that a false-accuser goes through some horrible ordeal. That's just wrong, and even assuming that it is traumatic for someone to lie about being raped, she asked for it.
In your case, it is wrong, and I'm sorry for what you went through. However, a woman who accuses a man of rape is often (I stress often, not always, as it is obviously not true in your case):
*not believed by her peer group and outcast
*questioned by her own family, and depending on who she is accusing, outcast
*has her previous sexual encounters brought to full light and in startling detail
Take offense all you want, maybe you've seen as many separate cases as I have, I don't know. Maybe in your area of the world the system is different as well, of that I'm not sure. All I can go on is what I've seen and that all points to reporting rape (true or false) often leads to a great deal of suffering for the accuser as well. This is one of the main reasons that rape and sexual assault is so underreported.
I can't tell you how much it breaks my heart to hear that someone was falsely accused because being accused of a sex crime you didn't commit is about the most horrifying thing you can be accused of and I think anyone who does that (if it can be proven to be so) should be serving prison time for false reporting, defamation, whatever.
Nexa