Is it time to punish false accusers?

I've not once seen a person shamed for reporting sexual assault, although I'd bet money men are at much higher risk of that than women. And in the list of factors you cited, 4/5 have to do with the victim's own perceptions of themselves and the crime, not society. We do not have a culture that shames rape victims, and you've yet to provide any evidence of one. You keep pointing to the 64% stat and claiming that they're not reporting to avoid shaming, but you're wrong, and the evidence you're providing doesn't support your claims.

It's a bit of a stretch to say that 4/5 of those factors have nothing to do with society. You go on to say "you're wrong," but don't seem to have offered any counter-evidence, and your assertion that the evidence doesn't support the claims doesn't hold up either.

Why do you think the US had nation-wide hashtagged mass coming-out about this issue in the first place? Because many, many women felt that there was a problem. Where is the evidence of shaming? I wouldn't know exactly, because I'm a man and I've never experienced it. It really doesn't take a stretch of the imagination to understand why a woman would be reluctant to come forward about an assault. Your skepticism seems to stem from having never personally witnessed this shaming. That's a narrow perspective, and not a good basis for forming an opinion.

I don't think you're at all wrong to preach caution with how we handle these claims, because we absolutely do not want innocent men to suffer false allegations. That said, "several young men" being falsely accused will understandably not stir the same sympathies when compared to what women as whole have been dealing with for probably all of human history. But I still think "1000 guilty go free rather than 1 innocent jailed" or whatever applies here.

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