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[blackplayground]

i'm lucky. i haven't been the victim of sexual abuse/violence. the fact that so many have enrages me. 1 in 5 women will experience sexual violence. 1 in 3 physical violence. walking down the street in mid-afternoon men in cars will yell out to me. every week i have at least five men yell something crude or, preferably, undecipherable out their car

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[blackplayground]

i agree that people who boy-who-cried-wolf about things demean the reality of those events. but although people talk about 'all those women who accuse falsely' i haven't seen much evidence of this actually happening. further there is the fact that (as noted below) sexual assault can be difficult to prove, not because it didn't happen but because evidence is difficult to come by. this leads to a large majority of cases not going to trial or the perpetrator not being brought to justice. this certainly doesn't mean that the events didn't happen as the victim has claimed they did. i understand that you've experienced someone lying in this type of situation but... as the article pointed out a large number of women who have experience some kind of violence don't come forward and don't report it. those unnamed masses far outweigh the rather small amount of women who lie.

i'd also like to add that in this specific instance it is women we are speaking of. but that in many, many, many other instances there are men and women who lie in legal matters. when someone falsely accuses someone else of something in say... kidnapping or bribery or murder the reaction is rarely 'oh by doing that they've undermined the legal system taking seriously'.

cx