Letters to the Editor
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Mutual exclusion seems the topic of this post...
It's true that false accusations happen; worse still, false convictions happen. At the same time, sexual assault is an underreported. As a savvy reader noted in response to an earlier post about the dropped charges, future rape survivors may be unintended victims in this case. Those who see every rape charge as a probable false accusation may read the Duke case outcome as validating their position; assault survivors may worry that the Duke case outcome erodes their credibility.
You make it sound as though the two positions here are mutually exclusive. In fact, both sides benefit when rapes are reported accurately and the possibility of false accusations is treated seriously. Which is why Broadsheet should be the first to call out the nonsense of feminists that claim either that the falsely accused are insignificant in numbers, or that they need to be more worried about the underreported rapes.
Also, I completely object to your blatant crap that portray two populations "those that see every rape charge as a probable false accusation" versus "assault survivors."
Please show me "those that see every rape charge as a *probable* false accusation." And when you are done with that please see if you can find any assault survivors that think that some rape charges may be false accusations.
Broadsheet, you don't do yourself any credit when you take some sort of pious attitude and then proceed to smear and smear again.
Sexist much?