Hot take but we should really be holding games publishers more accountable for things like “deliberately misrepresenting and misselling the product and its collectors edition goodies or completely failing to inform buyers of changes in scope and production”, and “causing a child gambling epidemic in the UK by putting gambling mechanics, that would feel out of place even in a free to play game, in $60 licensed titles”
god stop defending bethesda they arent ur friend and using the same engine when it’s a broken mess and reselling broken messes to consumers isnt acceptable. dont stan million dollar companies. blizzard, bethesda, EA, none of them r ur friends
Yes. Anyone is capable of rape. Idgaf if it’s my brother, uncle, or father. I will believe the woman.
My best friend was accused of rape. And the accuser was absolutely telling the truth even though they did not press charges, they decided to tell me and I believe them. Also TWO of my friends confirmed witnessing and trying to stop it, I understand there was more than one violation. What the fuck is OPs point?
Obviously I’m not friends with the sexual predator anymore.
They specifically said “falsely accused”. Can y’all read, or…?
My point is, it’s probably not a false accusation. It also talked about believing women and I would believe a woman over my brother or father because she doesn’t benefit from coming forward about something like that. Also yes all men.
According to a 2017 report by the US National Institutes of Health, fake accusers “were primarily motivated by emotional gain. Most false allegations were used to cover up other behaviour such as adultery or skipping school”.
Hmmm…how about this one?
The Duke lacrosse case was a widely reported 2006 criminal case in which three members of the Duke University men’s lacrosse team were falsely accused of rape. The case evoked varied responses from the media, faculty groups, students, the community, and others. The case’s resolution sparked public discussion of racism, media bias, and due process on campuses, and ultimately led to the resignation and disbarment of the lead prosecutor, Durham CountyDistrict AttorneyMike Nifong.
The second stripper who performed at the house, Kim Roberts, said that Mangum was not raped. She stated that Mangum was not obviously hurt. Likewise, she refuted other aspects of Mangum’s story including denying that she helped dress Mangum after the party and saying that they were not forcefully separated by players as Mangum had reported.
DNA results revealed that the woman had sex with a man who was not a Duke lacrosse player. Attorney Joseph Cheshire said the tests indicated DNA from a single male source came from a vaginal swab taken from Mangum. Media outlets reported that this DNA was from her boyfriend.
However, it was later revealed that DNA from multiple males who were neither the lacrosse players nor Mangum’s boyfriend had been found, but that these findings had been deliberately withheld from the Court and the defense.
She had made a similar claim in the past which she did not pursue. On August 18, 1996, the dancer – then 18 years old – told a police officer in Creedmoor she had been raped by three men in June 1993, according to a police document. The officer who took the woman’s report at that time asked her to write a detailed timeline of the night’s events and bring the account back to the police, but she never returned.
The strip club’s security officer said that Mangum told co-workers four days after the party that she was going to get money from some boys at a Duke party who had not paid her, mentioning that the boys were white. The security guard did not make a big deal of it because he felt that no one took her seriously.
Mangum was arrested in 2002 for stealing a cab from a strip club where she had been working. She led police officers on a high-speed chase before she was apprehended, at which point her blood alcohol level was more than twice the legal limit. She was sentenced to three weekends in detention.
Yeah, I’m sure she didn’t stand to benefit from that, right?
In December 2017 a student was cleared of rape thanks to evidence uncovered in his Facebook messages, however, he still had to spend over three years in prison before he could prove his innocence.
There are more. My friend @lastsonlost has a long list of cases and maybe he’ll be generous enough to share them.
Now, maybe you don’t give a shit about due process. Maybe you don’t care if one of your male relatives is accused of sexual assault. Maybe seeing them unjustly suffer even if there’s a complete lack of evidence and credible witnesses means nothing to you, but for the rest of us, it means a lot.
I have an autistic son, 16 years old and nonverbal. He is innocent and vulnerable in ways able-bodied women of sound mind are not. He would be completely unable to defend himself if someone decided to accuse him of something like that. He doesn’t understand the meaning of evil. He has no concept of it. He doesn’t have a single malicious bone in his entire body.
He sure as hell doesn’t go around generalizing and demonizing people because of their gender, much less anything else. That alone makes him a better person than you’ll probably ever be so you can shove that “yes all men” bullshit where the sun doesn’t shine.
I didn’t read the full reblog (i am using the tumblr app) but I guess for “emotional gain” or “revenge” but that is mostly in the 1% while the other 99% rape victims are telling the truth
Mohammad Asif: “I keep thinking, ‘I just dropped her off, she was just a normal passenger, why has she done that?” -accused by said passenger of raping her at knife point – would be in jail except was exonerated by voice recording app on his phone.
Soner Yasa: four drunk women reported to police that he had sexually assaulted them as a ploy to refuse to pay a $13 cab fare- Once again he’d be in jail if not for video surveillance in his cab.
Here, Here, Here, Here (stole accused’s car, then accused him) Here, Here, Here, Here, Here (Also faked cancer to get donation money), Here (After girl admits she lied, he still remained in detention 15 more months and it took forever for him to be taken off the sex offender registry), Here, Here (lied to get out of work), Here (Innocent served 2 years because Granddaughter wanted inheritance), Here (Seven years in prison)
Here, Here, Here (11 claims. ELEVEN), Here, Here, Here (though it may not entirely be her fault, the accused has been in jail since 1998. She’s fought to get him out since 1999. Yet he still has a 20-40 year sentence.) Here, Here (Falsely accused kills himself), Here, Here, Here, Here (took her 25 years to start paying him back), Here, Here, Here (repeatedly abusive girlfriend), Here, Here, Here, Here (all she got was 200 hrs community service), Here (Falsely accused served 10 years and attempted suicide twice.), Here, Here, Here, Here (Falsely accused served 18 months but would have served longer)
Famous case, nearly ruined bright future of NFL Linebacker:Here (accused spends 5 years in jail and sentenced 5 years while the accuser gets to keep 1.5 million in unwarranted compensation) (Video, she admits to not wanting to get in trouble because she doesn’t want to have to pay the basically stolen money back).
Here, Here (because she didn’t enjoy it), Here (falsely accused spent 9 years in jail, accuser gets no sentence.) Here, Here, Here, Here, Here (Wrongfully accused got 11 years (would have had at least 15), accuser got none.) Here, Here
Here (falsely accused could have faced 30 years), Here, Here, Here, Here (Falsely accused had served 2 months. Accuser got 6 months for what is labelled as Ohio’s “lowest level felony”), Here
Circulating false statistics about rape, and then literally becoming enraged when they find out that women aren’t being victimized as much as they were led to believe.
I have to ask, are you surprised at all that these disgusting people would gladly join a lynch mob without any evidence? Almost as if they are completely happy to create more victim just so they can validate their paranoia.
Emmet Till, Jay Cheshire, Ross Bullock and Lesandro Guzman-Feliz were a fine price to pay, right? Several years of numerous men’s lives were also a fine sarifice, right? All so people could simply listen and believe.
“She suddenly broke and said I was absolutely right. She had made the whole thing up because she was angry with her father and wanted to teach him a lesson,” McCulloch said.
I don’t want to hear how you think it’s rare or how you swear up and down that men are believed more because it’s not true. There’s practically a new Old Man released from prison every other day.
I feel like there’s is this general belief that once you have someone convicted of a crime that’s it like they magically stop existing and you never have to face that person ever again.
The woman who falsely accused Brian Banks thought that since she was wrong.
Now she has to pay back 1.5 million and I honestly think she deserves far worse.
I love it how everyone forgets that everyone lies because someone with tears shows up on their doorstep.
The first two posters should just say they hate Black men and leave.
Just adding more
Even men are catching on that False allegations are becoming too common
I was going to pitch into this debate, but…
1) you guys nailed it
2) they still won’t listen anyways….
I think a law should be put in place where if a rape allegation is proved false. That the person who lied should serve the sentence of what the other person would have received and if that person committed suicide over such false allegation. They should be behind bars for murder. Also, if they got won a settlement, got money from findings, and whatever the accused lost during and after the trial. They should pay back 2 fold back to the falsely accused.
I got a huge agreement with grey-firearms but I want to add one thing, if it took you more than a certain number of years to announce then it didn’t affect your life enough, be the statement true or false. If it took you that long to say then why should I care I mean you clearly didn’t for quite a while
Mmm I think that’s a bad way to go about it.
Real life victims sometimes have a hard time getting help because of guilt, they’re afraid to come out or any reason of self blame(idk it just goes along those lines I think). Men especially are scared and afraid to come forth because of how society treats them. Everything should be based on facts either way.
Literally this post broke the fucking site, and I’m here for it.
orangeandgreengardens up there…smh.
So you’re just omniscient now? You know that false accusations are never false, they’re almost always true? I’m glad as hell you don’t work in our judicial system.
Let’s start accusing people who don’t believe in “innocent until proven guilty” of crimes they didn’t commit. See how quickly we can teach them.
We’ve tried. They just say it doesn’t count when it’s them.
There seems to be a disconnect somewhere around empathy for them. They can’t be affected by false allegations against themselves, because they know they didn’t do the thing, but they can’t acknowledge the possibility of someone else being falsely accused of something.
They acknowledge it, they just don’t think it’s significant. Some of them even claim people should be sacrificed. Aridara even claimed he’d be willing to take the hit himself, though he also claimed accusations don’t have any real consequences.
So, listen and believe types, was I supposed to believe the women who claimed a black guy sexually assaulted them, when in reality they didn’t like him making a community garden, or oooh how about convenience store Susan and the sexually harassing black kid which turned out to be his back bumping into her?
i don’t mean to sound fake deep but the reason 2018 felt so long was because we’re being fed what’s trending at such a rapid rate that we literally can’t remember half of the shit that even happened anymore. “Black Panther came out in February!” Marvel releases so many movies a year that we completely forget about the last movie as soon as a new one comes out and it repeats in a vicious cycle. “Tide Pods/Ugandan Knuckles was in January!” The life span of memes have been rapidly declining for years and it’s gotten to the point where the average lifespan of a meme is about 2 weeks and then the next thing gets popular and then that lasts for 2 weeks and it just keeps going. We’re literally losing our sense of time because of our rapid consumption of media and pop culture.
i love that like 50% of the responses on this post are just Marvel fans that are angry that i said that they release too many movies a year (also purposefully ignoring the Fox and Sony movies because those do count) instead of my overall point
do all the jeff goldblum stans realize that he’s on his third wife and she’s literally half his age
Half his age, as in she was born in 1983 making her 35 years old and an adult with adult agency and life experiences to balance out the inexperience and power dynamics that make age gap relationships questionable at best and predatory at worst?
Like I get where you’re coming from, a lot of the time there is good reason to side-eye wide age gap relationships. But there’s also sometimes nuance, like the fact that they met and got engaged when she was 31, and as near as I can find from a quick google search, his other marriages although having ended, did not end for awful or violent reasons. Sometimes people just realize they made a mistake or their needs change, and they are allowed to do things to rectify them, like responsibly end a marriage for the sake of those involved rather than continue torturing each other.
Also if the objection is to how many times he’s been married, his second wife
Geena Davis (also in her 30s when she married him)
has been married four times. Is that unacceptable too?
I’m not trying to be hostile and I don’t particularly care about him either way. This just seems like such vague phrasing designed to provoke an inflammatory response and I can’t seem to find any receipts to back it up other than the fact that he has indeed been married three times, married a younger woman in her 30s, has a son with her, and has talked openly about how they go to couples therapy to deal with their shit, which is actually, if you think about it, a very healthy thing to do.
And for what it’s worth, his first wife
Patricia Gaul was born in 1945 making him the younger of the two (1952), but
making them of comparable and compatible ages when they got married to each other in
their 30s. Like I’m just not seeing the behavior or someone here who is a
repeat offender of chasing after vulnerable young women in the same way say, Drake is blatantly grooming a 14 year old girl.
How dare op try to ruin Jeff Goldblum just because he’s well liked
The reason why saying “straight culture™” or “this is the most heterosexual thing i’ve ever seen” when it comes to toxic or abusive relationships isn’t good is because
1. It normalizes the idea that relationships between a man and a woman are inherently toxic and abusive or that it’s okay for relationships between a man and a woman to be toxic and abusive and
2. it erases the truth that abuse happens just as often in homosexual relationships as it does in heterosexual relations.
Both those things lead to people not recognizing abuse or staying in abusive relationships out of the notion that what is happening is acceptable. So stop it. Abuse and toxicity are not “Straight culture”. They’re filthy things that can happen to anyone.
i don’t really give a shit about this tumblr being removed from the app store thing but above all i am really glad this is happening now and not in 2011 so i don’t have to scroll past some “PSA: TUMBLR HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM THE APP STORE!” “oh HELL NO!!! Dr who fandom grab your tardises!!!” “*50 gif reaction images of the supernatural guy looking pissed off” type of shit
tumblr should have a feature where if you use words like “gaslighting” “dissociation” and “intrusive thoughts” in a post you have to take a quiz before you post it that proves that you actually know what they mean