The assumption that women are generally liars, or at best are responsible for their own abuse, is the ingrained, socially-acceptable response to any of our complaints about unwanted sexual conduct, sadly.
I've had to learn this lesson more than once. And years after a man was fired from my workplace for stalking and sexually harrassing me, certain colleagues are still ostracising ME for refusing to accept that behaviour and reporting it. The attitude seems to have been: 'Our lovely, avuncular if very eccentric colleague an abuser?' (Unknown to me, he had a long-standing track record for this at the time).
Never. Must be the woman who's lying. I've been punished a second time for daring to report this and 'ruining the career of a "good" man'.
The hell. He ruined it himself: I never asked him to rub his groin up against me when passing or stand leering at my shoulder, right in my personal space, at every work event. He's disgusting, and the ones who supported a sex offender against the victim no longer receive - or deserve - my time of day.
I recount this story not because it's the worst story of assault I can relate, but because of the respose I received. It's fairly typical. My organization found in my favour and dismissed this man. Some colleagues still chose to blame me, both before and after they contributed to damning witness reports which extolled his wonderful character and dismissed me as unworthy of further notice).
Management had known for some time this was going on. I believe the lookout for women is getting worse, not better.