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  1. But for the sake of argument, let’s say they are.

    how original..
    not like anyone would take the other side for the sake of argument, which is the harder side with all the damage and negation whether or not you actually did something or not!!

    EVERY SEXUAL issue today ALWAYS starts with the automatic guilt of the male – ALWAYS…

    NEVER does it start with the assumption of innocence on the accused… EVER

    so yeah.
    lets start with the most common, easy to argue, safest point without any worry about something wrong in it

    Nearly 1 in 5 (18.3%) women and 1 in 71 men (1.4%) reported experiencing rape at some time in their lives

    how is that even physically possible? oh, cause we no longer make the distinction between rape and sodomy.. unless you can stack the law [though notice, you can make all the nasty jokes bout picking up soap, and all manner of things for the guys, but rape jokes?]

    BETTINA ARNDT writes exactly the same stuff i have written for ages but is more famous… and thats how she makes her living.. [and i sent you the email that was published from a friend that it was sent to]

    Silent Victims
    http://www.bettinaarndt.com.au/wp-content/uploads/silent-victims.pdf

    If anyone is prosecuted for filing a false report, then victims of real attacks will be less likely to report them. David Angier

    Men who are unjustly accused of rape can sometimes gain from the experience. Catherine Comins
    [edited for length by n-n]

  2. My ex who robbed a bank, faked a murder and more… and i am still living it… decades later… lack of jobs, lack of career. judges told me i had no rights… and tons of things that will never come up in these discussions as that is not the side anyone starts with!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    and to make sure no one listens to what hanna, mcelroy, etc have een saying… and even more on youtube, mens movement and on and on… peterson anyone?

    but feminist Jezebel will set things straight by repeating the same old numbers and so on and doing that thing they do, that no one cares they do… until waht?

    He Said, She Said: The Mythical History of the False Rape Allegation
    https://jezebel.com/he-said-she-said-the-mythical-history-of-the-false-ra-1720945752

    while both groups agree that false allegations are a problem, they couldn’t disagree more on how to address the issue. MRAs can’t talk about them enough; many cite a false allegation as their “red pill” moment that opened their eyes….

    Feminists are much more uncomfortable with the topic. False allegations, after all, hold a disproportionate place in the public imagination; their specter derails productive conversations about sexual assault and supporting victims. Feminists, a group in which I include myself wholeheartedly, can dismiss the discussion by claiming that, because of their extreme rarity, false allegations aren’t worth representing or talking about. And when stories about false allegations are told in art and literature, we try to label them as “bad for women” and minimize their impact.

    This is a bad approach, and it’s counterproductive to the goal of supporting victims. The only way to dilute the power of stories like the ones cited by Whoopi Goldberg is by discussing false allegation narratives more, not less.

    right.. to take back the narrative i guess…

    Stories about false allegations are not only common: they’re also very old. They go back as far as the Bible, but are especially common in Greek mythology. The most famous example is Phaedra, whose false accusation against her stepson led to his death. I’ve written about how common rape was in Greek literature and how the Athenians enjoyed the occasional rape joke.

    this is just the set up above… but note.. what the F does Phaedra who 99% cant tell you a thing about any more than Themis have to do with the point today?

    nothing… all she is doing is going back to the oppressive era to “prove” in the feminist way that – its always been put down this way and so on..

    In the absence of physical evidence, the struggle becomes one between narratives: he said, she said. That’s why the recent New York Magazine article juxtaposing photos of Cosby’s accusers with their stories is so powerful: it centers them, at last.

    Men are always wrong
    Women are never wrong
    If women are wrong its because of men
    Simple dialectic – apply liberally like Adobo
    [edited for length by n-n]

  3. The goal is turn NDAs about sex into bribery and extortion. The motive for doing this should be obvious to anyone with an IQ of body temperature.

  4. Artfldgr:

    Once again, one would think you’d never read most of the posts on this blog. I’ve written many many many posts on the subject of false accusations of rape and harassment, and of the assumption of innocence on the part of men (the latter of which I have consistently and repeatedly championed). I have emphasized over and over that “believe the women” is a pernicious and dangerous point of view, and it is not my point of view at all.

    In this particular post I am assuming for the sake of argument that the women are telling the truth in this situation re O’Reilly. Do you know what “for the sake of argument” means? Did you even read the rest of the post? Because the point of the rest of the post is to say that even if they ARE telling the truth (and it is certainly possible they are telling the truth, although we cannot know) the idea that they are somehow being silenced against their will, or by coercion—an idea the Times’ headline is designed to suggest—is not supported by any evidence.

    That is the point of this point, and that is why I am assuming for the sake of the argument presented in this post, that they are telling the truth. It has nothing whatsoever to do with whether they are actually telling the truth or not.

  5. Artfldgr:

    I think the best example of my previous work on the subject of false rape accusations is this article I wrote for PJ in 2014 (linked to on my blog here). I suggest everyone read it.

    (By the way, that article was written towards the earlier parts of the UVA “Jackie” rape accusation, and before it was definitely proven that she was lying.)

  6. I wish we would distinguish between sexual harassment, and gender harassment.

    Was Bill O’Reilly seeking sex with these women, which was rebuffed, or was he demeaning their abilities to perform their jobs because they were women?

  7. “I wish we would distinguish between sexual harassment, and gender harassment.

    Was Bill O’Reilly seeking sex with these women, which was rebuffed, or was he demeaning their abilities to perform their jobs because they were women?”

    There’s (at least) a third option. The guy is an a55hole and is using whatever weapon he can against others.

    Having not follwed this drama, I could be mistaken, of course.

  8. “Settlement documents… made public for the first time on Wednesday”

    How did that happen? I guess I’ll go read the article to see if I can find out. Ok, I’m back, they were released as part of a defamation lawsuit. How can that be if it was all supposed to be confidential?

    Point taken on the headline and its implications. The NYT cannot be trusted to simply report.

  9. If that figure is accurate, then $45 million among 6 women is an average of $7.5 million each. That is such a large amount that it indicates that something unpleasant happened. No one pays out money like that unless it is serious.

    Compare that to the $130,000 that Donald Trump’s lawyer paid Stormy Daniels a few weeks before the election. That amount indicates nothing really happened, since it’s essentially “shut up and go away” money, especially important given the timing and the hostile media.

    I wonder what Bill O’Reilly’s children really think about this, since it is $45 million less from his estate that would have otherwise gone to them. And with all the other sex scandals going on today, whatever happened to just getting some hookers and call girls? Think of the savings!

  10. Well Yankee, if we are venturing into tongue-in-cheek territory, I will just say that Bill O’Reilly can have my silence for half that average settlement amount.

  11. He paid $45 million and got nothing. In fact, it got a whole lot worse. He should sue and get his money back. Refund.

  12. Yankee: “And with all the other sex scandals going on today, whatever happened to just getting some hookers and call girls? Think of the savings!”

    My thoughts exactly!

  13. Bill O’Reilly doesn’t have the Demoncrat connections to get the sex slaves from overseas. For that, he’d need Epstein and Kennedies.

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