There are many things to hate in the mindset that false accusations ruin mens lives. But one thing in particular that drives me insane is that, true accusations can ruin both his life, and mine.
And I don't think people ever think about how difficult is to come forward, how traumatising it is to have to beg to be believed over and over and over again. I'm constantly at risk of being blamed, my reputation still is questioned. But no one talks about how even the fact of accusing someone of something they did, can ruin you in the process. Because its not only the rape that ruins lives of victims, it's society's reaction too.
People sometimes say they believe - because of course if you don't youre a bad person, right? - but they don't really want to. Its uncomfortable to them to admit such thing, and so they'd rather humiliate and abuse the victim than to accept rape is something that happens and it happened to someone they know.
Because its difficult to, and there's virtually no social script for that, so they push it away. Or they look for excuses how it was a 'misunderstanding' or how 'she wanted it and then regretted'. Without as much as a single thought that if a woman is going to the police, or telling her family and friends it'll cost her a lot too. She'll be disbelieved, her reputation is at risk, her friends might turn their backs on her. She can be called a liar, a whore, and everything in between and more.
Why on earth do they think women will willy-nilly go through all that, risk so much (because even if you have perfect experience and everyone is supportive and they believe you - you will still be forever branded by that, there will be this discomfort in the back of their mind always) just so she could what? Ruin a mans life, even though true accusations rarely do? Excuse herself from cheating? Do they really think we're this stupid or sociopathic to use rape accusations as a tool of social manipulations? Even though everything in society is wired *against* us, so why on earth use something that puts you in a harms way so much?













