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Originally posted by Amaterasu
I'm not drawing any judgements. I don't automatically think that the Duke players raped her. There are some inconsistencies in her story, yes, whatever.
But I'm not going to discredit this young lady, either, solely based on...the strongly misguided notion that women cry rape to 'get even with people' or 'teach someone a lesson.'
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While no one is asking you to discredit her on any basis, real or perceived, to imply that the notion that women cry rape to get even is "strongly misguided" is unfounded, to say the least. In case you didn't know, in slave days (and subsequently), a black man could get lynched solely on a white woman's word that he raped her,
prima facie.
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It doesn't happen that often...
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According to whom?
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Why the hell would you be ostracized from community life -- especially by pointing the finger at wealthy white male lacrosse players who most likely can afford the best legal support money can buy -- to get some invisible and imagined "benefit"? Tawana Brawley was trying not to get in trouble with her dad. She was 15.
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Like I said before, rent the movie "Pretty Persuasion"; while it's billed as a comedy, it makes a very profound statement that answers your very question shockingly well.