Please read my article on bearing false witness and the incidence of false rape claims
I wrote this article in 2014. I suggest you read it; it seems highly relevant these days.
See also this article of mine from around the same time.
[NOTE: Also please see this, on the effect of false rape accusations on the men targeted.
And remember what happened to Margaret Atwood when she had the temerity to suggest that even men’s rights should be protected?]
Dr. Charles P. McDowell, Supervisory Special Agent, Air Force Office of Special investigations, investigated 556 cases of alleged rape, and 27 percent of the women eventually admitted they had lied. Other cases which were questionable were reviewed by three independent investigators. They concluded that 60 percent of the original rape allegations were false.
I have read that a significant number of sexual harassment case are made by same sex victims. Did Dr McDowell speak about these cases?
John:
So in today’s social climate how is it decided who is to be believed when a person’s gender is entirely subjective? If both parties identify as a woman which is to believed? Maybe it should be solved by the preponderance of accusations and the majority of those who believe the individuals involved? (/s) Oh, that would be the mob, aka Social Justice Warfare.
One of my FB friends – one of the comparatively sane ones, I might add – posted an item recently about things men and women do _daily_, as a routine thing, to prevent sexual assault. Of course the result was men said “nothing” and the women came up with a giant list of paranoid behaviors.
Speaking as a woman, looking back over many years of doing things alone, I only remember a couple of occasions when I felt like I was in a dangerous situation: once was in an inner-city slum that I accidentally wandered into and once was in a South American country. I have been to high school and college. I have been all over this country, and to numerous other countries. Based on my practical experience, in the United States, in anything that is a better neighborhood than a drug-infested DMZ, the reaction of these women was not founded on reality. I looked at this long list of dysfunction and thought, “These people either need professional counseling or a moving van.” Yet that is now being mainstreamed.
It becomes obvious to me that the same thing is occurring here that we saw with black Americans in recent years. After decades, when racism seemed to be generations behind us, black Americans were re-indoctrinated by the Left to assume that every breath of a white person was racist. Now, women are being indoctrinated to believe that male human beings – at least, anyone born with a penis, who perceives himself as male and is attracted to females – are inherently violent rapists.
It sets the stage for paranoid and/or pernicious accusations, which we are told should always be believed when they come from the “victim” class. The goal is clearly to sow more division, more irrational hate and fear.
“And remember what happened to Margaret Atwood when she had the temerity to suggest that even men’s rights should be protected?”-Neo
“She and other writers have come under heavy fire for signing an open letter that’s critical of the way the university handled (or, more accurately, bungled) the investigation of case. She has no opinion of his guilt or innocence, which, given the lack of public evidence, is impossible to judge.
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“My fundamental position,” she wrote, “is that women are human beings, with the full range of saintly and demonic behaviours this entails, including criminal ones. They’re not angels, incapable of wrongdoing ” She went on to warn: “In times of extremes, extremists win.”
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“Endorsing basic human rights for everyone is not warring against women. In order to have rights for women you have to have rights period. Me being a blood-drinking monster does not make that untrue.” – Atwood
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Any world where we have Lindsey Graham & Margaret Atwood saying the same thing is .. sane.
Which is why the crazies hate them both.
From the Telegraph:
“Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely have sympathy for a system that encourages complainants of rape to come forward. But, on the other hand, we now have a system that can be seen as open season for those who want to make false allegations of a sexual nature.”
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“James, Chris, David and many more individuals have fallen victim to malicious allegations of rape and sexual assault. They believe they have been treated unfairly by police officers, not sufficiently cleared due to legal terminology, and left without adequate support after the ordeal. Even when completely cleared, they say they can never regain the same social or emotional standard of life as they previously had.
“It’s a sentence without a conviction,” says David.”
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I can see why Neo brought this up in re the Kavanaugh denunciations.
As PowerLine said over the week-end, if the Dems can do this to a highly respected, never-before-accused man from their own social elite milieu, they can do it to anyone.
And they have been learning from these previous false allegations that there is no penalty for the attack.
Since Jane Austen’s movies have been so popular lately, coupled with the rise in unbridled false allegations mixed in with the true ones, it is hard not to reach the conclusion that the “binders” placed around women AND men in the old days were developed for good reason.
The historical pendulum keeps swinging between social mores that are either too loose or too tight, but it is the height of hypocrisy today that the people who campaigned for decades on removing the rules completely are now complaining about the consequences.
“The goal is clearly to sow more division, more irrational hate and fear.” – Kyndyll
It’s almost as if there were some kind of Intelligence directing the show, because peace on earth is not Its agenda.
“After Al Sharpton and several lawyers started to take charge of the publicity on the case, that’s when her charges got a great deal more specific and became a national scandal:” -Neo
“One good thing about the UVA rape story — and it may be the only good thing about it — is that it spotlights the disagreement between those who believe that rape accusers’ claims must be examined under the cold light of objective reason and evidence, and those who say rape accusers should be automatically believed.” – Neo
Four years later, still working the same playbook.
If there is any silver lining on this cloud, it is that both Kavanaugh and Ford are white.
It’s almost a relief to go back the the usual political kind of false accusations.
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/09/30/sparing_rod_unpacking_a_trumpian_intrigue.html
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/409163-ex-trump-aide-if-fbi-can-investigate-clinton-email-in-days-it-can-investigate
“Caputo said Sunday on CNN that one week should be plenty of time to investigate the sexual misconduct claims brought forward by Christine Blasey Ford and two other women.
“We all know the FBI looked at 650,000 of Hillary Clinton’s emails in just 24 to 36 hours so it’ll just take a week,” Caputo said.
Caputo noted it took three days in 1991 for the FBI to investigate Anita Hill’s claims that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who was then a nominee, had sexually harassed her.
Caputo went on to say that if Kavanaugh is confirmed, he is concerned that there will be riots.”
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Remarks from Hirono, Klobuchar, and others complaining that “the WH is limiting the FBI” are still trying to convict Kavanaugh of rape (they keep dropping the “attempted” part) by confirming that he was a heavier drinker than he admitted to Thursday.
Kind of like the reverse of dismissing a specific rape allegation because the women had consensual sex with other men.
Hypocrisy.
https://dailycaller.com/2018/09/30/kavanaugh-snl-matt-damon-accusations/
“Matt Damon made a surprise appearance on the premiere of “Saturday Night Live,” parodying Judge Brett Kavanaugh from Thursday’s hearing.
Many have claimed that Kavanaugh’s demeanor at that hearing, which addressed multiple accusations of sexual misconduct against the Supreme Court nominee, was an indicator that he should not be confirmed. But just nine months ago, when asked how he would handle similar allegations, Damon suggested that his response would be similar.
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In December 2017, Damon appeared on ABC’s “Popcorn” with Peter Travers and explained that in the years before the #MeToo movement, false allegations were often settled monetarily. But after the fall of Harvey Weinstein, all that changed.
“If you make the same claim to me today,” he said, “it would be scorched-earth. I don’t care if it would cost me $10 million in court for 10 years, you are not taking my name from me, you are not taking my name and reputation from me, I’ve worked too hard for it, I’ve earned it, you can’t just blow me up like that.” ”
Hypocrisy again.
Cut, clown-nose-on clown-nose-off makes it all okay, right?
Why the Dems needed another week, they didn’t get enough of these reports before Thursday, and knew a confidential investigation would never drag them out.
https://dailycaller.com/2018/10/01/yale-friend-drunk-kavanaugh/
“Chad Ludington, an associate professor at North Carolina State University, told the New York Times, “When Brett got drunk, he was often belligerent and aggressive. On one of the last occasions I purposely socialized with Brett, I witnessed him respond to a semi-hostile remark, not by defusing the situation, but by throwing his beer in the man’s face and starting a fight that ended with one of our mutual friends in jail.”
According to the Washington Post, Ludington plans on providing a statement about the alleged fight to the FBI on Monday.”
You can unpack that statement a lot of ways, because (as the WaPo and NYT have proven), you can say something that does not include a single untrue word while still insinuating something that is a complete lie.
I wonder if this story is related to the experience the Judge would not talk about in public last Thursday, referring always to an existing redacted sealed report, even though the Dems went to that well at least 3 times that I remember.
He might have responded forcefully to a slur against another friend (which is the way I read it), in which case, it’s another “damn straight” for me.
PS if Kavanaugh himself were cited on any police report because the friend ended up in jail, there would have been a record found on his SIX prior FBI background checks. Also the Yaley making the complaint here should have reported it when interviewed — because the FBI asks their subjects to name everybody they ever knew any where any time.
https://dailycaller.com/2018/10/01/veteran-sex-crimes-ford-no-case/
“Mitchell concluded that no “reasonable prosecutor” would bring the charges in the case.” [quotes in the original]
Well, then, that’s the end of it, by the Dems’ own rules of FBI investigations!
Of course, they only operate by the rule of believe the D, never believe the R.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/36519/prosecutor-questioned-ford-shreds-her-case-5-page-ryan-saavedra?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=062316-news&utm_campaign=benshapiro
“Here are the nine problems outlined in Mitchell’s memo:”
The problems include all the things everyone has already mentioned; but (in Mitchell’s defense)it was impossible to pin them down publicly in the format she was given to work in.
Here are two I didn’t catch, and haven’t read of:
“She [Ford] alleges that she struggled academically in college, but she has never made any similar claim about her last two years of high school.
It is significant that she used the word “contributed” when she described the psychological impact of the incident to the Washington Post. Use of the word “contributed” rather than “caused” suggests that other life events may have contributed to her symptoms. And when questioned on that point, she said that she could think of “nothing as striking as” the alleged assault.”
Sorry (not too much) about all the comments – that’s what happens when there is no delay-function on the host platform!
First, The Jeff Flake harassment was a setup by Soros money.
Then, Susan Helms, a three star general and former astronaut was forced to retire. because she over ruled a zealous prosecutor on a case of alleged sexual assault when the witnesses did not agree with the accuser.
But her nomination has been blocked by Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), a member of the Armed Services Committee, who wants to examine Helms’s previously unpublicized decision to overturn the conviction, on charges of aggravated sexual assault, of a captain at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
McCaskill again.
The accuser was an officer on a date with another officer. She accused him of assaulting her in the back seat of a car. The two officers in the front seat said they saw nothing like that. The prosecutor wanted to give the accusee a dishonorable discharge, the equivalent of a felony conviction. The General, Helms, allowed the officer accused to resign.
Her assignment to the Space Command was blocked by McCaskill. Her career ended and she retired.
“She [Ford] alleges that she struggled academically in college, but she has never made any similar claim about her last two years of high school.
A commenter on another blog suggested there is a lot of evidence that, if there was an assault of some sort, it occurred in 1984, not 1982. Even the handwritten account for her “polygraph” has the words “late 80s” crossed out and “early 80s” substituted.
One more thing about Mitchell: she was actually in the position of taking depositions, or possibly grand-jury testimony, not doing either direct- or cross-examination at a trial.
This hybrid procedure is exactly what the courts have attempted to eliminate over the centuries by developing very specific rules on testimony and evidence, especially in the last few decades: to prevent the kind of travesty we all witnessed on Thursday.
Dems are anti-justice to the max.
Kyndyll G:
You write: “After decades, when racism seemed to be generations behind us, black Americans were re-indoctrinated by the Left to assume that every breath of a white person was racist. Now, women are being indoctrinated to believe that male human beings – at least, anyone born with a penis, who perceives himself as male and is attracted to females – are inherently violent rapists.”
That idea was standard in feminist writings a long time ago. For example, the premise of Susan Brownmiller’s 1976 book (quite well-known and popular, as I recall) was: ” that rape ‘is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear.'”
That was over 40 years ago.
Similar radical feminist works that demean ordinary heterosexual intercourse as inherently violent are by Andrea Dworkin, for one (1987). Women’s studies has been preaching that sort of thing for a long time.
Women’s studies has been preaching that sort of thing for a long time.
This all began with “The Feminine Mystique” in 1963. My wife and I were friends with a couple who lived in Hollywood. The wife read this book and became convinced that her life was being ruined by male privilege and she divorced her very mild mannered husband and moved to the Bay Area. He eventually remarried, she did not. She went to law school and became more and more radical. I remember she wrote to my wife bragging that she had sex on the Golden gate Bridge with some guy. I don’t know what eventually happened to her.
Middle class women became convinced that marriage and children were oppressing them. They are the Democrats’ base.
Good analyses, New. Will the pendulum ever swing back? We live in troubling times.
If Dave has shown up in anyone’s Textbox of name when trying to comment here, can you please leave a comment to notify me about it and include the first letter of the email shown in the email textbox as well so i can find which email of mine did the deep state obtain.
thanks in advance.
so far KyndyllG and RichformChicago have shown up on mine.
In the case of the previous names and emails showing up on autofill, I really don’t think anyone has reason to think it’s some sort of spying thing. First of all, if the deep state were really all that interested, they could gain access to the info without screwing up autofill. The autofill problem is actually a rather simple cache problem that happens now and then. I wouldn’t worry about it, but if you’re really worried just use a fake email while the problem persists.
I don’t think it’s happening anymore.
Neo:
LOL of course I wouldn’t worry about deep state, they already know everything about us. I am more worried about spams.
Dave, Pack up the spams and send them to Mazie Hirono. They love Spam in Hawaii.
Darn, I just keep seeing my own name and email address. But I will gladly ignore anyone who wants to reach out and contact me via email. LOL!
Note–Name and Address boxes assumed I am poster Mrs Whatsit. But I’m not. It’s me, Julie. And I made up the address, so I expect you have the real one, Neo.
Ms. Mitchell’s memorandum to the Republicans in the Senate detailing her findings. PDF at
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4952147/180930-Rachel-Mitchell-Memo-Kavanaugh.pdf
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Chain by which I got there:
1. Ixquick search on string ‘ Mitchell Memorandum to Republican Senators ‘ –>
2. https://www.axios.com/brett-kavanaugh-rachel-mitchell-prosecutor-memo-2c3233cc-1d42-416b-af04-02700aa9a711.html –>
3. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/evidence-doesn-t-support-claims-against-kavanaugh-judiciary-committee-prosecutor-n915236 –> pdf linked above.
The latter is NBC’s news report. I was trying to find some evidence that the PDF is legit. Not that I consider NBC a reliable source….
[WARNING. Do not watch embedded Scarborough video past the first woman speaker, on pain of losing lunch.]
neo on October 1, 2018 at 1:14 pm at 1:14 pm said:
“That idea was standard in feminist writings a long time ago. For example, the premise of Susan Brownmiller’s 1976 book (quite well-known and popular, as I recall) was: ” that rape ‘is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear.’”
That was over 40 years ago.”
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It’s taken that long to infect most of two generations; it will take twice as long to eradicate, assuming the rational people (conservatives and #Walkaways) can even get the project started.
Fortunately there is a slice of the older and younger folks rejecting the obvious irrationality of that all / all hysteria, because they can see it is not true.
Sexual assault, maybe. But if women don’t think men don’t practice situational awareness against regular assault on a daily basis, ingrained in them down to their fingernails, they’re delusional.
• Give the crazy homeless guy a wide berth, because you might be the one he decides to take a whack at.
• On a dark sidewalk with doorways, walk on the street side to give yourself an extra half second if someone comes out of one at you.
• On a dark sidewalk with no doorways, walk on the building side to give yourself an extra half second if someone comes out of a car at you.
• Keep an eye on those two punks hanging out on a corner not visibly walking anywhere.
• Never touch someone else’s car or for god’s sake motorcycle.
• Never pull out a wad of bills in public (less applicable these days).
• On a busy street, check your pocket frequently to make sure your wallet is still there.
• Don’t deliberately provoke drunk men, and always to try to de-escalate if one gets provoked.
• And so on, and so on, etc etc
And that’s just for adult men — teenagers, especially the physically-weaker and/or lower status ones have many more.
Men have to worry about other men offering non-sexual violence to them for no reason at all. Hell, the other day I was walking back to my car from a club after closing, and if I’d been thirty seconds later I would have ended up in the middle of a fight between two groups of drunk 20-somethings, that started because one guy was urinating into a bush and the other guy saw it and called him a fa**ot. Stupid, no? But the kind of thing that men are expected to be prepared for and handle competently.
Besides false witness, there is the false memory. I find it plausible that Dr. Ford is lying, but far more believable that she has a false memory, which she truly believes.
Believes it now, anyway.
So here’s my bladerunner (1982) reference “she doesn’t know…”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWPyRSURYFQ
Most anger, and FBI investigations, should be in going after Feinstein & staff & even lawyers who colluded to make this false accusation.
It might even be that Dr. Ford has some malpractice suit potential against her lawyer, if she didn’t know about the offer to interview her in CA…
“Sexual assault, maybe. But if women don’t think men don’t practice situational awareness against regular assault on a daily basis, ingrained in them down to their fingernails, they’re delusional.”
I absolutely agree. And the two situations I specifically named in which I was concerned for my safety should have concerned a lone male person, regarding the risk of a regular assault.
Before I leave the topic entirely, I want to point out the about-face made by the left on the subject. It was not so very long ago that if you suggested, as a way of reducing the risk of having bad things happen, that women have the slightest bit of situational awareness, or think even once about doing stupid things – what men do as a matter of course all day, every day – you were “blaming the victim.” Now, I see that in the black-and-white world of leftism, women are being encouraged to be paranoid nutjobs. And just like all the other “we’ve always been at war with Eastasia” random flip-flops of the left, no one within sees, or at least acknowledges, their illogical/inconsistent position.
Leftism is simply at war with reality, logic, facts and truth, and in order to be a committed lefty, you have to be willing to toss those things away. It’s the underlying reason why you can’t have a conversation with a committed lefty – all they have left is bizarre outrage, screaming tantrums, constantly changing goal posts and hysteria, all while aboard an emotional roller coaster.