I have been thinking about why there is no equivalent rape myth of men lying about being raped which has plagued women and girls for centuries. There are several theories as to why a man’s report of rape is taken more seriously than a woman’s report. So I googled both.
It was an interesting exercise.
When I googled that women lie about rape, there were thousands of articles which either supported or rejected the claim.
When I googled that men lie about rape, all articles were about women lying about rape. There were no articles about men.
When I googled that women lie about rape, there were thousands of articles which either supported or rejected the claim.
When I googled that men lie about rape, all articles were about women lying about rape. There were no articles about men.
There were plenty of articles trying to debunk the myth that women lie about rape - but there were none required for men, because that myth/stereotype simply doesn’t exist. There doesn’t need to be a concerted effort to debunk it
What is interesting about this is that there is an assumption that when women report rape, there is the potential for malice and falsehoods, but when men report rape, it must be true because why else would they report it?
It’s obviously assumed that a male rape disclosure is so much more humiliating and traumatic than female rape, that a man just wouldn’t lie about rape at all - whereas women must lie about the prevalence and impact of rape due to being malicious and unstable.
Clearly, a male rape disclosure weighs more and means more than female rape disclosure, despite female rape being on average around 7-10 times more likely.
I think there is some homophobia in here, and a LOT of misogyny.
Often, when a man is raped by another man, it is considered among the worst possible crime a man can be subjected to it admit to being subjected to due to homophobia and toxic masculinity norms.
Often, when a man is raped by another man, it is considered among the worst possible crime a man can be subjected to it admit to being subjected to due to homophobia and toxic masculinity norms.
But when women disclose the same crime of rape by a man, there is no homophobia, there is the normalisation of rape culture, the objectification of women, the normalisation of sexual violence towards them and an assumption that women either 1) led them on or 2) are lying
Thinking about it - if anyone lies about rape, it’s men.
Millions of women are raped per year and yet no men are rapists - because they lie about committing it or knowing any other man who commits it.
Wouldn’t that mean that millions of men per year lie about rape?
Millions of women are raped per year and yet no men are rapists - because they lie about committing it or knowing any other man who commits it.
Wouldn’t that mean that millions of men per year lie about rape?
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