In Part 1 of “Dangerous rape myths,” I examined three common rape myths: that doubt = misogyny; that the innocent have nothing to fear; and that false allegations are rare. Here in Part 2, I will examine three more: that false allegations are not harmful to the accused; that even if they are harmful they’re …
Rape myths are common. And they’re highly destructive. Hannah Wallen shares a few common rape myths that badly need debunking.
Everyone knows that Rolling Stone stepped in a big pile of it with their gang-rape story that turned out to be a gang of lies. Paul Elam says that the mainstream has little right to complain.
There are many reasons women lie about rape, and the consequences for the men wrongly accused are severe.
Is rape culture just another way to perpetuate the cult of victimhood and convince women and children they are helpless in the face of mostly imagined threats?
What does it say about us in 2014 that we’re willing to just automatically accept accusations against an elderly man about things he allegedly did decades ago, and that we never question? Janet Bloomfield wonders the same.
In the wake of the indictment of college sex tribunals by 28 Harvard law professors, it’s suddenly become respectable to champion the rights of college men.
Contrary to popular belief, women are human, humans lie, and some humans actually do lie about being raped.
If your bag is ideology, mathematics can be a decidedly inconvenient reality. Susan Patton and Dr. David Farley take on rape stats by the numbers.
The politics of social panic can be a deadly affair, and when guided by ignorant ideologues can even be worse. AVFM welcomes Allan Anderson with some perspective that has lifesaving potential, were it not for the tendency of the masses to be so easily misled into ignoring it.
