Steve James wrote:Oh well, the problem is sexual harassment, not false claims.
I think both are part of a serious social problem that can affect everyone, whereas much of the reaction I see in the headlines is a condemnation of men in general as the primary perpetrators.
The statistics that Rob posted of 850,000 rapes of women to 12,000 of men per year in the UK are very different from those I looked at about 15-20 years ago in the USA, where men were raped more than women, mostly in prison. Haven't looked at those for the USA in a long while, but I think there could be cause and effect, a kind of an overall vicious cycle of the victim becoming the perpetrator.
OTOH there have been a handful of cases of wrongful or vindictive accusations, male and female and in some the perpertrators got punished.
I'm trying to guess why in the case of Jemma Beale, after she'd accused a group of men of gang raping her for the third time no one in the police caught on while an innocent man previously convicted was sitting in prison.