Yes, because the likelihood of being accused of rape and subsequently actually going to jail for it, when maybe 3% of actual rapists spend any time whatsoever in jail, is equally as likely as rape is for women.
You don't need a false rape accusation to send you to jail for it to ruin your life.
Yes, your life is so much worse than the person who actually got raped.
The areas in which men are 'victims' are results of sexism against women; if rape wasn't so goddamned common, none of that would be an issue, now would it?
That's a bold claim. I'm going to need you to back it up.
It would be a lot more difficult to convince people of fake rape, if real rape wasn't everywhere.
I mean, jeezus fucking christ, do you actually buy this bullshit? Are you part of the Men's Rights Association, too?
Are insults really necessary?
If I insulted you, my apologies. But this is entirely bullshit, and I can't believe you people buy it. "Waah waah poor me I'm a man, there's so much sexism against me focus on my problems, not women's, waah!" Or, if not that, then it's about "Well there's sexism against me, so it's only fair there's sexism against them too." OR, if not
that, then you still aren't being useful to the discussion at all.
God. I mean, honestly, how the fuck is being accused of rape worse, or as likely to happen, as actually being raped?
I did not claim that being accused of rape is worse than being raped, nor did I claim that it was as likely to happen. I claimed that false rape accusations are a really bad thing, that can have life-ruining consequences.
You're right. They suck. You know what else sucks, worse? Rape. Weird, isn't it. SEXISM IS A THING, AND IT'S WORSE FOR WOMEN. Jeezus fucking christ.
And yes, I know how sexism can bullshit men, typically in regards to rape, but not in being accused of it, in the whole 'men can't be raped because they love sex hurr'. But the incidence of rape for men is smaller than the incidence of rape for women, leaving aside the whole victim-blaming issue.
The statistic of rapes by gender are somewhat skewed by definitions. In the UK, it's impossible to legally be considered a rapist unless you have a penis.
Well, A. This is basically agreeing with me; B. That's a bullshit law; and C. I was also referring to men being raped by other men.
Secondly, no, that's not how it works. Look at it like this: you get found guilty of murder. You get twenty years in prison. The next day, a black guy gets life for the exact same crime. Were you, or the jurors consciously attempting to oppress black people? No. You still benefited from a system which favors you. And you'll never know, unless you seek to find out, or someone explains it you.
Same thing with, say, slut shaming. Man has sex with 10 woman and he's a player, woman has sex with 10 dudes and she's a slut. No conscious oppression, but the man still benefited and the woman still suffered. Neither of them probably know unless they're specifically paying attention.
And in both of those scenarios the bias is also noticed by the victim? I honestly don't think so. If it is ingrained so deeply into society that the people benefiting don't notice, then the people losing out wouldn't notice either. Because it's normal, the way things are. So if noticing how the system works is a qualifier for being valid to comment on it then in the context of sexism that still doesn't make women's observations inherently more valuable.
Yes, in both of those scenarios the bias is noticed by the victim. Women notice being called sluts. Ethnic minorites notice being sentenced to jail for the rest of their life whilst white people go free.
@Neonivek: I honestly have no idea what you're really getting at here? There's the mechanism of not having enough money to pay a lawyer.