I'm a gay male who comes from a relatively privileged background, and as such I haven't encountered much discrimination at any point in my life. I especially used to think that feminism wasn't 'as necessary as it used to be', though this was before I understood it to mean equal rights rather than female privilege, that seeks to dismantle male discrimination as well.
But today on reddit that front page story about false rape accusations brought out some truly horrendous waves of misogyny from the userbase. This one case in which a girl was PROVEN to be lying about rape was discovered years after the man had been imprisoned. Everyone then jumped to the massive conclusion that these outright liars are a huge problem in rape cases, rather than the majority where although the man cannot be proven to have committed rape, the woman cannot also be proven to have lied.
The basic outline on the comment thread, which was TERRIFYING, was that if the prosecution cannot prove beyond reasonable doubt that the defendant was guilty, then the proponent was certainly lying. And should face the same punishment as a convicted rapist. To think that we're still trying to work out ways of getting more rape victims to come forward and the majority of these people were more concerned about outlier cases were the woman seemed to lie purely out of spite.
Once again, the majority of people who go so far as to press charges of rape, BELIEVE they were raped. Whether or not the defendant proceeds to be found actually guilty of committing said crime is not directly linked to whether or not the accuser was lying. I was just astonished by how binary and 'gender war' they were treating this. Truly terrifying.
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