Sun-Times: "False rape allegation an affront to women"

Submitted by anthony on Sun, 2006-12-24 19:18

Article here. Excerpt:

"This is a betrayal. If this rape allegation was false, then it is the lowest thing a woman can do to other women."

"It's not just about the Duke case. It's about all the other cases involving a sports culture that objectifies women and rewards a ridiculous hubris and machismo."

"A real problem exists in this sports culture, and a false rape accusation in such a public case serves only to hurt the real victims everywhere else."

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Ed. note: The author of the article can be reached at gcouch-at-suntimes.com.

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To the Editors:

Greg Couch's Dec. 24 article "False rape allegation an affront to women" is the most extraordinary example of cognitive dissonance I have seen from a newspaper columnist in a long time.

I would like him to consider this analogy: If a recent report included a story about how a group of whites attacked a black person largely because of his or her skin color, would he report that the attack is an affront to whites, most of whom would never do such a thing, and that whites were the real victims? Or if the sexes of the people in the Duke case were reversed, would he be making the claim that it is men as a whole who are victimized by what would have been a male stripper's false allegations against the girls lacrosse team? For those who don't think sexual assaults by women (in groups or otherwise) on male victims do not occur, I can assure you that they do. They just tend to get excused away or not reported on in newspapers, or both.

Sincerely,

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Submitted by mcc99 on Sun, 2006-12-24 20:05

The author of the article doesn't object false accusations as such. He says that if a woman files a false accusation, she must not take her words back because this makes harder for other women to make false accusations:

But that's an awfully powerful, heinous and specific accusation, if true. You can't come back from that and say you're not so sure...

Maybe she backed off her word because it's just too hard to keep enduring the talk about her.But I don't believe her anymore.

And now she's only strengthening the doubters across the country about all of these cases. That makes it harder for victims to stand up and emboldens the sports culture.

Even if something awful did happen to this woman, she has lost her credibility.

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Submitted by nbdspcl on Sun, 2006-12-24 20:40

The Chicago SunTimes reporter argues -- "This is a betrayal. If this rape allegation was false, then it is the lowest thing a woman can do to other women."

Actually, he's not even close to the "lowest things" women do to each other.

They lie. Slander. Back-stab. Steal boyfriends and husbands. Subvert reputations at work. Make false accusations. Betray. Violate confidences. Plant rumors. ETC.

This is just ordinary female-on-female violence, mostly psychological, and typically indirect, carried out by third party assassins.

To paraphrase a minor German philosopher Arthur Schopenhaurer -- "Women lie so often that it is questionable whether they should ever be allowed to take any kind of oathe or provide legal testimony..."

We need more publicity for all the lying skanks that are clogging the anti-Family Courts and persecuting men with false allegations.

When the public gets tired of these headlines, then maybe the curse of Chivalry will die a long-overdue death.

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Submitted by Roy on Mon, 2006-12-25 02:55