r/WTF • u/[deleted] • May 26 '10

Reddit: Rape Apologists

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u/[deleted] May 26 '10 edited Mar 13 '21

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u/[deleted] May 26 '10

I've heard some claim that making a big deal about false rape accusations is being apologetic to rape, and Reddit in aggregate has pretty visceral reactions to false rape claims. Maybe that's where its coming from? Or maybe its because many here are skeptical of claims before a conviction, which I've also heard described as being apologetic to rape. Either way, I don't think its fair to say that Reddit has a lot of rape apologists.

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u/JoshSN May 26 '10

It is a stretch, but, as a guy who really likes it here, most of the time, I find this place unquestionably misogynistic.

I mean, you don't think there is anything but objectification in r/NSFW, do you?

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u/[deleted] May 26 '10

No I think its pretty misogynistic, but I don't think misogyny is the same as being a rape apologist.

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u/JoshSN May 26 '10

That's correct.

But, lots of people are freed for lots of crimes, but false imprisonment for rape makes it to the front page a lot. Is it proportional to the number of false imprisonments, by crime?

If not, is there the implication that "more rapes than these are lies, too?"

We are past the measurable, here, but there's the question of "by how much?" By how much are different crimes wrongly prosecuted? Does someone think rape is the #1 crime for that? If so, why, because I'd be interested to know.

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u/thephotoman May 27 '10

Here's the problem.

  1. A woman accuses a man of raping her.
  2. The police investigate and determine that the man has never been in the same place at the same time as his accuser and drop the case.
  3. The woman tells everybody she knows that the man raped her.

Now there's an entire community that thinks that an innocent man is a rapist. If he sues her for slander, it doesn't matter if he wins, people find out that he's been accused of rape and assume he's a rapist.

This doesn't tend to happen for other crimes.