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CMV: Any supporter of the men’s movement should be more concerned with the rape of men than false rape accusations

I’m not exactly associated with the Men’s movement, but I remember being so obsessed with false rape accusations.They are an issue, but I have grown since then and I feel like the problem has been extrapolated in my head. I’d compare these cases I that of Emmet Till and the Groveland Four (Who, I shit you not, we’re JUST released from prison).

Those are issues of false rape accusations yes, but they were also issues of racism. Concerning the men’s movement alone I think a supporter would be better off bringing attention to the fact that men can be raped as well.

I’ve skimmed the Wikipedia articles regarding rape of males and sexual misconduct in the justice system. Finding statistical proof of this. Did you know 90% of cases of sexual misconduct in juvenile detention centers were female on male? (Underage boys to be exact) And much less, but a still noticeable amount of female staff members abuse male and female inmates in prisons? And in all cases of proven female on male rape, if it resulted in pregnancy, the rape victim is still forced to pay for child support even if the victim is a minor.

*A person in power using said power to make a person under them their bitch? Shocker.* I don’t need to explain this is a key component in sexual misconduct. Someone with status, power, or leverage over their victim take advantage of that and abuse them. This logic is often applied to women but same so for men.

Men are far more likely to actually be sexually assaulted than falsely accused of sexual assault. By obsessing with false accusations, people only enforce the false idea that only women can be victim of rape, and only men can rape people. 

False accusations are issues, they destroy reputations and make a community more skeptical of actual rape, but it’s not the biggest threat a man face regarding sexual assault.
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well - they're both pretty serious issues. And it's hard to say one's more devastating than the other to a person.  Absolutely men do get sexually assaulted especially when younger and absoutely there are false accusations of sexual misconduct. 

I think that the focus on false accusations comes from two sources right now. 

First - i think there's a perception that if you're careful you can protect yourself from sexual assault. This isn't really true, but it's often believed. "Nobody better try anything with me, i'd beat them up". Except it doesn't work that way, but many don't get that. Also - you can somewhat control the risk by not engaging in risky behavior like going to jail :). And the older you get the less likely. So there's a feeling you have some control over it whereas you may not have any control over a false rape accusation. So the false rape accusation feels more scary. 

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But More importantly is the relatively recent "Listen and Believe" narrative going on in some  places. this is the idea that women should always be believed when they make a claim and due process be damned, Their boss should fire them, their friends should abandon them, their neighbours should shun them, and they should never work or know peace again unless somehow they PROVE the allegations false and even then we should probably not invite them to any of the good parties. 

  
This is a very dangerous attitude for men. Even if they're not found guilty they may lose their job and be completely destroyed in their community when they've done nothing wrong. Worse - these accusations can be made years or even decades after the event supposedly happened which can make it very challenging to defend against. So there's not just a danger based on what's happening now - there's a danger that anyone from anywhere in your whole life MIGHT come forward and accuse you of something you didn't do. 

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That's why false accusations seem like a more scary and pressing issue, even if perhaps based on statistics or facts it might not be. It's so out of a person's control and it's something that's being driven by women's advocates right now. Kavenaugh is a classic example - not a single shred of verifiable evidence, but based on a woman's claim that it happened everything that was important to him was attacked and he and his family suffered and he almost didn't get a job that was very important to him. And there was really nothing he could do. That's what scares people. And that's why they might tend to fixate on it a little bit.    


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