1 in 5 women get raped?

Baloney! You seem to be completely ignorant of their record. They have ridiculed and mocked members of this very forum who are actual rape victims. That doesn't bother you?

Actually, they've made quite a few disturbing comments about other subjects such as their own sexual proclivities, child porn, and lowering the age of consent to 12.

Their arguments regarding child porn were very clearly of the nature of believing innocent people to be wrongfully accused.

If you don't believe the rape victim, chances are you're wrong

People lie. We lie about liking our in-laws. We lie about our income. We lie to our parents about studying at the library when really we're smoking weed in the park.

These lies are common. A victim lying about rape is not.

Yet Rolling Stone decided Friday to distance itself from its widely read story about a violent sexual assault on the University of Virginia campus. The story, written by Sabrina Rubin Erdely, followed a survivor named Jackie. It documented the subsequent campus investigation into the fraternity brothers who allegedly raped Jackie in 2012.

Problem is, Rolling Stone never actually talked with those accused men.

"Because of the sensitive nature of Jackie's story, we decided to honor her request not to contact the man she claimed orchestrated the attack on her nor any of the men she claimed participated in the attack for fear of retaliation against her," managing editor Will Dana wrote in a statement.

Then Dana cited "discrepancies in Jackie's account."

Whether they meant to or not, Rolling Stone effectively told readers: Jackie lied about being raped. True, they couched it in the claim that they believed Jackie in the beginning. (Insert pat on the back here.)

But ultimately, Rolling Stone writes, "Our trust in her was misplaced."

Let's get something clear: Trusting Jackie wasn't the problem. Because false rape accusations are so rare, the decision to trust a person who says she was raped is never misplaced. If Rolling Stone had done its due diligence, it might have been able to defend its trust in its source when the fraternity pushed back on the accusation.

Instead, in the face of criticism, Rolling Stone is now implying that Jackie might have misled the reporter, rather than centering the blame squarely on its lack of journalistic standards. That's utterly irresponsible.

As a result, people may now read Rolling Stone's half-hearted apology and be dangerously skeptical of victims of sexual assault.

In fact, when survivors decide to come forward and report sexual assault, they are rarely lying. We don't know the details surrounding Jackie's specific case (Rolling Stone isn't talking), but jump to blame a victim — or imply that readers should be skeptical — and chances are you're wrong.



Out of all reported rapes and sexual assaults, only 2% to 10% are false reports, according to an analysis of several thorough studies. The most recent is a Northeastern study of 136 rape cases over a 10-year period. Only eight of those cases (5.9%) were coded as false allegations. In a 17-month period between January 2011 and May 2012 in England, there were 5,651 prosecutions for rape; of that number, 35 (0.6%) were prosecuted for making false accusations of rape, according to the Crown Prosecution Service.



The National Center for the Prosecution of Violence Against Women writes that what people view as the stereotypical signs of "real rape" are actually quite rare. According to prosecutors, "victims often omit, exaggerate or fabricate parts of their account, and they may even recant altogether. They are not typically hysterical when interviewed by medical professionals, law enforcement professionals, prosecutors or others."

That means many actual rape victims exhibit some of the stereotypical "red flag" behavior that an everyday person might find suspect. That does not mean they're lying.

Later on Friday, Rolling Stone's Dana tweeted that the magazine's failure in "getting the other side of the story" was "on us — not on her." But he did nothing to dispel the idea that Jackie was lying.

Critics of Rolling Stone's reporting maintain that insinuations about victims lying are likely to silence future victims. Not to mention that discrediting these women creates skepticism among the friends, family and administrations to whom they'll come for help.

"The girl who cried rape" is not a common person. At the very least, remember that when you're reviewing today's massive journalistic blunder.
http://mashable.com/2014/12/05/false-rape-accusations-rare/

- This article claims that studies that range from 2.1% to 10.9% are "relatively consistent". That is mathematically ridiculous! That is a huge variance

The definition of "rapist" isn't clear

Do you understand that what you are posting is propaganda?

Violence crimes of all types including sexual crimes are at a many decades low...

The studies have been relatively consistent in having results that fall within that range--there is nothing "mathematically ridiculous" about that..

Rape is defined by state law

Even in the case of the Rolling Stone article, I think people should at least wait to hear from Jackie, as to whether she intentionally wanted to mislead the reporter or whether something else is going on with her. In the other high profile false allegation cases--such as the cases at Duke and Hofstra--the women who made the claims were seriously emotionally disturbed.

The narrative caused feminists to act irrationally. They were outraged before they knew the facts and they caused an injustice. That was a mistake.

There is scientific evidence that the feminist political groups are over counting rapes.

Let me know when you actually read all of the most reliable studies on the false reporting of rapes.

In fact, as Emily Bazelon and Rachael Larimore wrote in Slate five years ago, official data on what law enforcement terms “unfounded” rape reports (that is, ones in which the police determine that no crime occurred) yield conflicting numbers, depending on local policies and procedures—averaging 8 percent to 10 percent of all reported rapes. Yet the truth is even knottier than these statistics suggest. The answer to “How common are false allegations?” depends largely on how false allegations are defined. Do we count only cases in which a police report—or a complaint to some other official authority, such as a college administrator—is shown to be deliberately false? Do we include informal, word-of-mouth charges like the one against Oberst? What of he said/she said cases in which the truth is never known?

A false accusation of rape is the intentional reporting of a rape by an alleged victim when no rape has occurred. Studies have found that police typically classify between 1.5 and 8% of rape accusations as unfounded, unproven or false, however researchers say those determinations are often dubious. The "conventional scholarly wisdom," according to American law professor Michelle J. Anderson, is that two percent of rape complaints made to the police are false. The United States Justice Department agrees, saying false accusations "are estimated to occur at the low rate of two percent -- similar to the rate of false accusations for other violent crimes." However, others say eight percent or more of rape accusations are false, and as a scientific matter the answer remains unknown.[

We dont know for sure, because this is one of the many areas where for decades the Feminists were able to keep science from investigating. However, we have reason to believe that it is a serious problem, as we for damn sure need to fund some good scientists to go out and measure.

I have read them, and trust me, you don't know what the hell you are talking about.

I think it's time you began naming the actual "feminists" you are referring to and stop eluding to some murky conspiracy of people you can't even identify or name.

could it be higher that 8-10%? Sure. But my instincts tell me that it cant be higher than 15%

To me charging an innocent father with child sexual abused is even worst then charging an innocent man with rape and yet it does happen all the time in numbers far greater then 15 percents.

We dont know for sure, because this is one of the many areas where for decades the Feminists were able to keep science from investigating.

The "conventional scholarly wisdom," according to American law professor Michelle J. Anderson, is that two percent of rape complaints made to the police are false. The United States Justice Department agrees, saying false accusations "are estimated to occur at the low rate of two percent -- similar to the rate of false accusations for other violent crimes." However, others say eight percent or more of rape accusations are false, and as a scientific matter the answer remains unknown.

Can you cite one instance of that ever happening? Which feminists were able to do that extraordinary feat?

The issue of false allegations has been blown up, and hyped up, out of all proportion to actual occurrence,