punchoutsb wrote:Lenny Cravats wrote:
...Until you read statistics on the issue and realise that only 25% of reported rapes ends in arrest and only 18% of prosecutions end in conviction, not mentioning that only about 60% are even reported you'll realise that men are most certainly not 'guilty until proven innocent.'
...Until you realize I'm speaking of public perception and media presentation. When something like that is reported in the news, the tone is always guilty until proven innocent. Everybody wanted the heads of the Duke lacrosse players a few years back. That was a false charge. Mark Chmura was a former NFL player who was quite beloved. He was falsely accused and everyone wanted his head until the charges were proven false. Then you have your fools like War Machine who will almost 100% be found guilty of his domestic abuse crimes.
Rape is a terrible problem in EVERY nation. Statistics about the lack of reporting are quite disconcerting. I wish we had a better approach to combat it. But that doesn't change my point that in these high profile cases, the media and public in general definitely take a guilty until proven innocent approach.
Public perception of rape is appalling. 40% believe a woman is at least partly to blame if she's drunk, 25% think she's at least partly to blame if she's wearing revealing clothing.
Fraudulent cases of rape claims are between 2-4% - the same as with most other false-claimed crimes.
You're talking as if the media choose only rape to be sensationalist about - they do it with everything - immigrants, crime, Russia, communism, football, ebola, salt in food, second hand smoke.... red-tops (or whatever the US calls shithouse news publications) do anything to sell stories. The fact that they use - and you (not just you, obv) pick up on over anything else - cases of rape to sensationalise, only serves to illustrate the misogynist slant of society and its perverse desire to vicariously see the suffering of women.