125% of women raped, according to feminist research : Melbourne Indymedia

As the tenuous rape accusations against Kobe Bryant in the USA have begun to unravel, it begs the question: just how often are men falsely accused of rape?

The evidence that I have seen shows that most allegations of rape made to the police are false.
The 'research' that purports to show otherwise is mostly bogus.

Indeed, the very fact that the definition of 'rape' is completely fudged in most of the 'research' in this area makes it impossible to evaluate it objectively.

However, if it is true that the vast majority of real rapes go unreported (which is the claim made by most rape 'research') and it is also true that the vast majority of rape allegations made to the police are true (which is another claim made by most rape 'research') then it follows logically that men are raping women many times more often than are women making false allegations about such things.

But it is just not credible that the number of false allegations emanating from women is actually many times less than the number of real rapists! - particularly given the many rewards that are on offer for alleging rape ($50,000 from the compensation scheme), and, also, given that the evidence shows quite clearly that many women will make such allegations for the most trivial of reasons e.g. in order to gain sympathy or revenge.

And if they will allege rape simply in order to gain sympathy, then the mind boggles at how many women will make false allegations of rape for more 'urgent' reasons.

Indeed, it was only a few weeks ago in the US that a man was released following eight months in prison because three young women had accused him of sexually-assaulting them simply in order to explain why they were late for class!

Three of them!

And the feminist-inspired myth that the probability of an 'average' woman making a false accusation of rape is far, far less than the probability of an 'average' man actually raping a woman is ridiculous.

Furthermore, even if, for the sake of argument, the
probability of making a false allegation of rape was exactly the same as the probability of a man actually raping a woman, then it would already follow that a full one-half of rape allegations are false!

For example, imagine for the moment that there is a town of 100 men and 100 women.

One man commits a rape. And he is reported to the police.

Now, assuming that the probability of making a false allegation of rape is exactly the same as the probability of a man actually raping a woman, one woman in this town will also make a false allegation of rape.
In other words, two men will be charged with rape.

And this already means that a full 50% of the allegations are false.

And if it is the case that women are far more likely to make a false allegation of rape than are men likely to commit one - and the preponderance of evidence suggests that this is, in fact, the case - then the proportion of false allegations compared to true allegations gets much worse.

Furthermore, even if it was true that men were twice as likely to commit an act of rape as were women likely to lie (or even to exaggerate) about such a thing, it would still follow that ONE-THIRD of the allegations were false.
And, in fact, the number of false allegations are going to be much higher than indicated above, because only some fraction of real rapes actually get reported to the police.

Much of the rape research suggests that the majority of real rapes goes unreported. In fact, the figures commonly bandied about suggest that only about one-quarter of real rapes are reported to the police.
So, let us go back to our town of 100 men and 100 women.

And let us again assume that a man is as likely to commit a rape as a woman is to make a false allegation about one.

Now. Imagine that in this town four men commit a rape one evening.

Well, the evidence suggests that only one of the raped women (one-quarter of them) will actually report the matter to the police.

Now, since we are assuming that a man is as likely to rape a woman as a woman is to make a false allegation, it follows that since four men committed a rape then four women will actually make a false allegation about rape.

And so five allegations of rape will be made to the police, but only one of them will be true.
In other words, 80% of the allegations are false.
And please remember that this is assuming that men are as likely to rape women as women are to make false allegations about rape - something which, quite frankly, is preposterous.

And the only way in which it is possible for the vast majority of rape allegations to be true while, at the same time, the vast majority of real rapes goes unreported, is for men to be many times more likely to rape women than are women likely to make false allegations about rape.

And this notion is even more preposterous.

Indeed, if some 80% of rape allegations are true, and some 75% of rapes go unreported, then it follows that men are sixteen times more likely to rape a woman than is a woman to make a false allegation of rape.

And this is supposed to be true despite the fact that we know that some women make false allegations of rape for the most trivial of reasons and that many women often have a great deal to gain by making false allegations of rape; whereas, on the other hand, men have a great deal to lose by committing an act of rape.
Furthermore, women are encouraged daily to make allegations of 'abuse'.

As such, the likelihood is very high that women are far more likely to make false allegations than are men likely to commit acts of rape.

And if this is the case - which seems likely - then even the high figure of 80% for false allegations (as in our town of 100 men and 100 women - where the probabilities of real rapes and false allegations are equal) is going to be an underestimate of the proportion of the allegations that are false.

Yes. That's right.

The likelihood is that more than 80% of rape allegations made to the police are false.

So where does the 1 in 4 figure come from ? By women who hate men and are lesbians. Which is fine by me, but they shouldn’t get public money to peddle nonsense.