TonySandos said:In all fairness guys, this talk of harsh punishments for false rape claims goes in line with the same train of thought that finds the "guilty until proven innocent" thinking acceptable.
My concern is that legitimate rapes without a bow on top of the evidence will turn around to bite those women in the ass as false rape accusations. We're the civil minded party of culture war, not the social justice warriors.
I was molested as a child and I know this for certain because I am a witness to it happening with my own eyes. It was dismissed in court because of the timeline(my parents didn't find out until a year later) and there was no physical evidence to support the claim. Similar situations do actually take place in rape claims. Should anyone lacking evidence be charged with false accusation? That seems almost as reckless as these Cosby style accusations because "numbers are on our side, so it must be true!".
Before some numbnut accuses me of sjw'ing... please look through my other responses where I defend men being falsely accused.
What are you talking about?
Those women would not be sentenced for fake rape accusations if there was not enough proof that they lied. Likely the girls in the relationships with the guy might have gotten sentenced, since they probably sent him "incriminating" text after the "rape".
Of course many cases - especially ones in the past won't be going forward and that is good. When there is no evidence of rape or of false rape accusation it is a case of he-said-she-said, that should end with both parties going free.
Nowadays women only serve time for false rape accusation when the guy has already been in prison for years and gets exonerated or when the accused is so fucking wealthy and connected that he manages to turn the case around and get her ass in prison instead. Both cases are extremely rare.
Rape of a grown woman is fucking rare - child abuse of both genders is not.
And frankly I am for a legal system which rather errs on the side of caution than on outright condemnation. Sure - you will have a few criminals go free, but at least you won't incarcerate butt-loads of innocents. 50-80% of rape accusations now in the West are false.
Now we are moving everywhere into an authoritarian system where an accusation can destroy you and even get you in the slammer, if it is done in the right marxist frame.
And no @ MMX
And when a third chick says, "I was raped!", even though her rapist was acquitted at trial, she should be treated the same way. (No conviction - so no rape.)
If during the trial it becomes obvious that for example after the supposed rape they texted for days amicably (maybe even witnesses or other evidence), then that is proof for a false rape accusation and the bitch should in turn be sentenced.
Of course if it's a classic she-said-he-said case then she has nothing to fear. And still in such a system very smart women can destroy a man's career, reputation despite any lack of evidence. But at least many more women will be thinking twice before accusing someone.
Apart from that men should be able to fight in court against slander such as rape accusations. You cannot walk around and accuse anyone of child molestation willy nilly, put up posters, go on the internet and say those things and expect to get a away free.