So in the wake of a massive public spotlight on rape, the priority apparently is to protect the reputations of the tiny % of men falsely accused of rape

Join, sadly for you there has been quite a lot of research done on prejudices about rape. The concept of 'rape myths' is established and defined based on a considerable amount of evidence. You don't get to turn up out of the blue and say, 'ooh, I've never heard of it so it must be rubbish' - you'll have to work a lot harder than that.

You might also want to take a look at the Talk guidelines. They make it clear that sexist posts can be deleted, just as racist, disablist and homophobic posts can be deleted. So do be careful out there.

And it is not biased to support women when not being believed is one of the primary factors for not reporting a rape. Statistically, if a woman says she was raped she is telling the truth. Men lie too you know, it's not as if they get nothing out of denying being a rapist is it

The real concern is that people like JoinLogin can sit on juries.

Doen't fix it the rapists still out there raping the little p s need to put their little P s away.

Got it JoinLogin

No, because it isn't true. It appears on the MN rape myth page here: www.mumsnet.com/campaigns/we-believe-you-campaign-rape-myths-busted with citations.

Quoted:

MYTH: Women often lie about rape, and police officers and jurors should bear this in mind
REALITY: There is no research evidence that false allegations are more common than for many other crimes.
Home Office research indicates that between 3-8% of initial allegations are false, but that the lower figure is likely to be most accurate.(6)
Far from being widespread, malicious accusations are rare. A much greater problem in the criminal justice system is the under-reporting of rape - the government estimates that 89% of rapes are never reported to the police at all.(7)
In addition, only 5.3% of rapes reported to the police end in a conviction for rape - the lowest rate of any country in Europe, except for Ireland.(8)

We Believe You

I believe you

How you you know they're innocent acquittal is "not proven" it's not he didn't do it.

Ah, I see the "give em enough rope and they will hang themselves" theory has worked beautifully!

MNHQ as joinlogin is posting such rubbish which runs contrary to the stated aims of We Believe You, please can you encourage him in some clever technical way to not darken our doors again?

MN can have whatever guidelines it likes - one of them is that we don't tolerate rape myths. If you don't like it go somewhere where misogyny is tolerated.

All those rapists who falsely claim to be falsely accused and walk scott free such as Kirk Reid who assaulted 70+ other women before being caught, Jon Worboys drove a black cab ideal front of a serial rapist, Ian Huntley. There is no consequence for them for lying about being a rapist. They get jailed for the rape not the perjury. (In the case of Huntley he was never once tried for rape or sex with under age girls despite many allegations) I suppose he was falsely accused too.

joinlogin please read this which should help you understand why no-one here is interested in your opinions and why we will challenge them for the goady MRA nonsense they are.

Other forums may suit you better.

All this is solved if men just stopped raping how about it. In other words the little should keep their little *** zipped.

Nice to see MNHQ deleting the goady and dreadful posts.

Other forums are available, using the FWR section of MN to post such utter rubbish can only be interpreted as fuckwittery.

Not really. Victims are not believed for far more reasons than the existence of a minute number of truly false reports (rather than mistaken identity or no accused identified)

I'm sure it's horrible to be in that situation. On balance, though, I'd rather improve the chances of catching serial rapists. Which most rapists are. I find it odd to take any other stance, tbh.