An Observation

Posted by Melissa McEwan at Thursday, December 11, 2014
[Content Note: Rape culture.]

screen cap of tweet authored by me reading: 'What if every single time we felt obliged to say 'yes, women sometimes lie about rape' we added 'and rapists almost always lie about rape'?'screen cap of tweet authored by me reading: 'Rapists almost always lie about rape; institutions with reputations to protect almost always lie about rape; rape apologists lie about rape.'screen cap of tweet authored by me reading: 'Because, right now, THE ONLY reflexive acknowledgment re: lying about rape is about the vanishingly small percentage of women who lie.'screen cap of tweet authored by me reading: 'Over and over. 'Yes sometimes women lie.' The only liars we ever talk about. 'Liars' whose 'false reports' are often really just unprovable.'screen cap of tweet authored by me reading: 'Every story I read, even and especially those in support of Jackie: 'Sometimes women do lie.' But never, ever: 'Rapists almost always lie.''screen cap of tweet authored by me reading: 'I will never again write anything about false reports without that full context. Never.'
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