Feminist blogger ‘emphatically’ defends lying about rape

Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2014-12-06 00:48

Article here. Excerpt:

'Today hasn’t been such a great day for feminism. Now that Rolling Stone’s heavily touted article purportedly exposing a gang rape at UVA has been shot full of holes, Our Ladies of the Perpetually Outraged are beside themselves looking for ways to keep the dubious rape narrative alive.

One of these angry gals is the charming Melissa McEwan, who, according to her Twitter bio, is “proprietor of Shakesville, a progressive feminist blog and a community of teaspoon-wielding badasses who expect more.” Apparently one of the things she doesn’t expect is for rape accusers to be completely honest:

"I can't state this more emphatically: If Jackie's story is partially or wholly untrue, it doesn't validate the reasons for disbelieving her.

— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) December 5, 2014"

Oof.

'"Discrepancies" is all it takes to convince most of the world Jackie is a liar. Welcome to the rape culture.

— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) December 5, 2014'
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Actually, the point is that when it comes to accusing someone else of rape — of any crime — facts are pretty darn important. Needless to say, McEwan’s logic didn’t go over terribly well with people who aren’t complete idiots:'

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I BATHE in feminist tears.

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Submitted by ThomasI on Sun, 2014-12-07 17:08

And here's the sad thing: this whole story won't make any difference the next time a sensational rape claim is made, everyone will say it must be true because women don't lie about rape.

The next story will be about men in a fraternity for wannabe priests raping women in a sorority for wannabe nuns in the quad at Notre Dame over shards of broken rosaries while altar boys were forced to watch.

And everybody will believe it happened because women never lie about rape.

But wait. These were not women. These were nuns. And maybe nuns do lie about rape.

Okay, it's almost Christmas and I get a new supply of Scotch soon. :)

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Submitted by el cid on Tue, 2014-12-09 02:16