Blog: 'False Rape Accusations and Rape Culture'

Submitted by anthony on Fri, 2009-09-18 18:04

Article here. Excerpt:

'Both rape and rape accusations are products of the roles assigned by rape culture. In the traditional seduction scenario, a woman is expected to not desire to have sex, and to only submit after the man has successfully coerced her into submission. When the preferred model for consensual sex looks a hell of a lot like rape, an array of fucked-up scenarios are inevitable: the woman never wanted to fuck the guy, refuses to submit, and is raped; the woman submits to the man’s coercion in order to avoid other negative consequences (like being raped); the woman had desired the sex all along, but must defend her femininity by saying that she had been coerced into sex. Thankfully, a good deal of modern men and women reject these antiquated ideas, but they’re far from being banished from the sexual landscape. Especially when that landscape involves four men, one woman, and freshman year of college.'

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'Rape culture'.... 'Rape culture"....

OK, hmmm, how to address this.

I am not sure I can say much about such a phrase except to liken it to referring to our present society as a "Magnesium sulfate culture'. Both phrases are equally meaningless.

The author of this essay immediately turns from the matter of the fact that the false accuser nearly destroyed the lives of the guys she had had sex with not too long ago to whether or not there is a double-standard in society about how men and women are judged vis-a-vis their sexual permissiveness.

It's fair to talk about that. But that isn't the point of what has happened here. The point is that these five guys were, upon a mere assertion from someone else, jailed and effectively presumed guilty. It took the provision of proof in the form of a cell phone video to get her to start telling the truth and admit that she had made the story up.

On top of that, the false accuser's name doesn't get disclosed while the names of all five of the guys get disclosed. While most people will accept that the accuser was (finally) telling the truth that she made the story up, there will always be some people who will believe the men did something wrong, despite the cell phone video the police and DA says they had. Does the essayist actually think their lives will not be adversely affected by what has happened here? Will it not affect their relationship with their families back home?

The false accuser nearly ruined five innocent men's lives before they even got off the ground. As it stands, she has placed serious obstacles in their way, even so. Meanwhile she faces no charges and at the moment, the police are talking to the press about her as if she "needs help." Yeah, she needs help. She also needs to be charged with a criminal offense (or two, or three) for what she has done and face the music. But since we live in a 'Culture of nymphotropism', I doubt that will happen.

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Submitted by mcc99 on Fri, 2009-09-18 19:51

Feminist and victim groups are mobilizing. They're in a frenzy because this Hofstra case is putting a spot light on false accusations. They're scared shitless the '2%' fallacy will be exposed. For the hundreds of false rape accusations posted on MANN, this one has gained media momentum. Feminists will fight tooth and nail to sustain their victim status. Their fantasy land suggests men are potential rapists and women possess this make believe morality where their incapable of lying.

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Submitted by anthony on Sat, 2009-09-19 03:54

They just know that lying is one area where women really are more gifted genetically then men so they feel absolutely no need to expose themselves to the gender that is incapable of detecting most female lies due to the fact that males can't lie nearly as well as females.

Men are not in women's league when it comes to natural ability to tell lies. Just as a person who is merely average at math cannot understand complex algorithms, most males simply cannot even imagine the sophistication of females to deceive.

This girl, had some kind of twisted morality and revealed herself. If not for that (as the cops never actually recovered the cell phone recording), these guys would be would be looking at major prison time.

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Submitted by Paragon on Sat, 2009-09-19 04:05

Maybe there's something I'm not seeing, but based on the excerpt in the o.p., how is the woman in this case not buying into at least one of the 'antiquated' ideas? She's at least taking adantage of one of them, and she may even be convinced at some level that she's actually a victim.

-ax

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Submitted by axolotl on Sat, 2009-09-19 05:44

There is really no difference between feminists and 'victims groups', other than that not all feminists are involved in that area. It has always been my understanding that victim's groups are only about rape, specifically, that of females. In other words, 'victims' is really a front for 'female victims of rape - real or imagined'.
-ax

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Submitted by axolotl on Sat, 2009-09-19 05:48