The face of rape hysteria

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'When Shapiro eventually revealed evidence showing that Jackie had invented her rapist as part of an elaborate hoax, it looked like the story would be quietly forgotten. Demonstrating that sometimes the best defense is a good offense, Amanda Marcotte went on the attack, publishing “’Princeton Mom, Kevin Williamson and the revolting rise of the rape truthers.”

“There’s been a shocking media feeding frenzy over the discovery that one of the young women claiming to be a rape victim in Sabrina Rubin Erdely’s recent Rolling Stone piece might be exaggerating about her experience or even lying about it,” writes Marcotte.
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She continues, “Subsequently, even though there’s no real evidence for it, many people stand behind the myth that women routinely lie about being raped, which justifies preserving a status quo where men’s word is considered more authoritative and trustworthy just because they are male.”

At this point feminists can be expected to quote the same misleading statistics about rape, such as only 8-10% of rape claims are false. In reality, false rape statistics reflect only the number of rape allegations declared by police to be unfounded; the actual number of false rape claims could be much higher, but we have no reliable way of knowing for certain.
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While feminists claim that only a small number of women make false rape accusations, they have done everything in their power to encourage false accusations. By demanding that colleges lower the standard of proof to 50.1%, they roll out the red carpet for false accusers. If an insurance company declared that they would no longer conduct arson investigations, they would go out of business within weeks.

Campus rape hysteria ultimately rests on two dubious propositions; that false rape accusations are a rare phenomenon, and that they could never become a major problem. Depending on how one defines rare, the first proposition is at least debatable; the second is patently absurd.'