<![CDATA[Men's Issues]]> What we are facing. http://mgtow.net/ipbforum/index.php Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:35:32 -0700 60 MisAnDrope:G is for Gender Gap http://mgtow.net/ipbforum/index.php?showtopic=19399 Women's Study Professors, femi-nazi's and your brainwashed, useful idiot students...you wanna talk about the Gender Gap?

I got your Gender gap RIGHT HERE!



From: M Is For Malevolent]]> Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:42:00 -0700 19399 WWDWYTN:False Accuser Makes McCain, Palin, Obama, and Biden Look Like Idiots http://mgtow.net/ipbforum/index.php?showtopic=19400 http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/24/mcc...cker/index.html

When the false accuser in the above story made up her ?fabulous lies?, John McCain, Sarah Palan, and Barack Obama all rushed to release politically correct statements of sympathy without even considering weather or not the accusations were actually true. Both lame stream political parties bought into the myths that ?all men are guilty until proven innocent?, and ?women never lie?. Of course Joe Biden built his entire political career as the Nazi enforcer of Misandry/Feminism, sponsoring unconstitutional VAWA and IMBRA on the same two myths.

Now that another false accuser of men in a long line of false accusers of men in the whole false accuser epidemic in America has admitted that she lied (a daily occurrence in America http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/), will either of the two lame stream parties release a statement condemning the false accuser for wasting valuable police time and endangering innocent men who happened look like the totally phony description that she gave police?

I predict that she will receive 100% impunity for her false accusations? just like 99% of American women who make false accusations. The irony is that while both McCain and Obama have refused to talk about any men?s issues the entire election process, a men?s issue (the false accusation epidemic) has finally been brought to the forefront of the media attention (at least for a day)? BY A WOMAN.

ForeignWomenOnly
http://foreignwomenonly.blogspot.com/

From: What American/Western Women Don't Want You To Know]]> Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:45:00 -0700 19400 The politics behind the pink ribbon (At Male Matters) http://mgtow.net/ipbforum/index.php?showtopic=19393
From: Male Matters]]> Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:06:00 -0700 19393 <![CDATA[FRS:Another rape "expert" minimizes false rape claims without citing supporting evidence]]> http://mgtow.net/ipbforum/index.php?showtopic=19391
Here we go again. We are so weary of these "experts" who pontificate on rape without reliable, objective data. Shame on the Southtown Star for its irresponsibility.

First, here is the comment I left under the article:

Your article states that sexual assault "is one of the most underreported felonies, but studies show that the public perception is that" false claims of sexual assault "are far more common than they actually are."

Where is your support for this comment? It is misleading for the reasons set forth below. My Web site is devoted to injecting objectivity into the epidemic of false claims of sexual assault: http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/ In fact, it is sexual assault counselors, with the media's complicity, not the general public, who practice self-delusion when it comes to false accusations of sexual assault.

Here are the facts: In "Until Proven Innocent," the widely praised (praised even by the New York Times, which the book skewers) and painstaking study of the Duke Lacrosse case, Stuart Taylor and Professor K.C. Johnson examined all of the major studies dealing with false claims of sexual assault and explained that the exact number of false claims is elusive but "[t]he standard assertion by feminists that only 2 percent" or sexual assault claims "are false, which traces to Susan Brownmiller's 1975 book "Against Our Will," is without empirical foundation and belied by a wealth of empirical data. These data suggest that at least 9 percent and probably closer to half" of all sexual assault claims "are false . . . ." (Page 374.)

In addition, FBI statistics show that false reporting of sexual assault is fourfold greater than the average for all crimes. The Politics of Sexuality, Barry M. Dank, Editor in Chief, Vol. 3 at 36, n. 8.As one example of how sexual assault counselors, with the news media's complicity, hide the facts in this area: This very newspaper recently relied on sexual assault counselors when it reported that sexual assault claimants "almost always" tell the truth about sexual assault. http://www.southtownstar.com/news/1215592,...vocates.article

What is interesting about that article is that it cited Prof. Eugene Kanin's landmark study on false sexual assault claims as authoritative -- but guess what? The article somehow forgot to mention that Kanin's study found that 41% of the claims he examined were not just false but actually recanted. The number of false claims may been higher. Here is the study: http://www.sexcriminals.com/library/doc-1002-1.pdf

I suppose the 41% didn't fit the story your newspaper set out to tell. And that is very, very disturbing to those of us who tire of seeing innocent men and boys denigrated by false claims of sexual assault. A lie about sexual assault is very easy to make, and once made, the life of a man or boy accused is often destroyed. I do wish this newspaper would exercise greater responsibility in this area.

HERE IS THE NEWS STORY:

Girl behind hoax still has anonymity

By KIM JANSSEN, Staff Writer

SOUTHTOWNSTAR.COM

Everybody knows who she is.

Nobody wants to say her name out loud.

That, more or less, is the situation the 17-year-old girl who cried rape in Palos Heights Sept. 16 finds herself in today, five days after she admitted she made the whole thing up.

The media has a longstanding policy of not naming rape victims in all but the most exceptional circumstances.

News organizations - like the police - don't want to unnecessarily add to the stress of a traumatic sexual experience or to discourage other victims from coming forward.

But when it turns out there wasn't a rape in the first place, the question gets more complicated, media ethics experts say.

"I'd name her," said professor Jack Doppelt, who teaches ethics classes at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.

"The question which most people don't ask is, 'Why do we name anyone in any situation?' and the answer is for accountability, so that readers can trust what they're reading and weigh the reliability of the person involved," he said.

"That rule is suspended for people who are the victims of rape or minors, but since that no longer applies in this case, I think she should be named, even if she is only 17."

The SouthtownStar, which does not normally name suspects who have not been charged - as the 17-year-old has not - has decided not to name the girl.

That was probably the right decision, according to Kelly McBride, ethics group leader at the Poynter Institute.

"It's a fine balance," McBride said. "I wouldn't name her, but I also wouldn't fault an editor who chose to name her.

"Rape is one of the most underreported felonies, but studies show that the public perception is that false rape reports are far more common than they actually are.

"Journalists have to be careful that they don't discourage victims with legitimate complaints from coming forward, and that they don't reinforce the impression that most rape claims are false."

While police say there is no doubt the girl in the Palos Heights case made up her story, many victims retract true rape allegations under pressure from investigators - another factor that should be considered before alleged hoaxers are named - McBride said.

The girl's young age and apparently fragile mental state also should be taken into account, McBride said.

"You have to ask what you're trying to achieve and see if there's another way of doing it," she said.

But some argue shielding the names of rape victims stigmatizes them while giving license to those who make false accusations.

Circuit Court Judge Richard Maroc said, "It comes from the old-fashioned and obviously wrong notion that 'good girls don't get raped.'

"Robbery victims and murder victims are named, and nobody thinks they are to blame for what happened to them."

Maroc said he has overseen several trials where men were falsely accused of child abuse or rape.
"They were found not guilty, but once their name had been on page one, it didn't matter - their lives were ruined."

Maroc cited the work of the Des Moines (Iowa) Register, which caused a stir in 1991 when it ran an editorial arguing that rape victims should be named.

The article prompted rape victim Nancy Ziegenmeyer to come forward and led to a series that won a Pulitzer Prize.

In the vast majority of cases, however, unless the victim volunteers to be named, they won't be.
"Rape is different," McBride said. "It's a violation of a victim's body and privacy, and I think it has to be treated differently."

Kim Janssen can be reached at kjanssen@southtownstar.com or (708) 633-5998.

Link: http://www.southtownstar.com/news/1219415,...apename.article

From: The False Rape Society]]> Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:02:00 -0700 19391 FRS:More on Palos Heights rape hoax http://mgtow.net/ipbforum/index.php?showtopic=19392 Community reacts to assault hoax with relief, anger and lots of questions

BY SHENEQUA A. GOLDING, MIKE NOLAN and CAROLE SHARWARKO, Staff writers

The rape of a 17-year-old sandwich shop worker wasn't real, but the steps women have taken to guard their personal safety in recent weeks is, Southland women said Saturday. The heightened concern that arose after the report of the violent attack was accompanied Saturday by shock, relief and anger as details of the girl's lie spread.

A troubled girl

At Palos Diner, across 111th Street from Stagg High School, Mary DiBrita and Lisa Bowman finished a late breakfast. They said they feel badly for the girl, adding that her actions seem like a desperate call for attention.

"She clearly has issues," said DiBrita, of Palos Hills. "I think she needs to see a therapist who can dig deep to find out what made her do this."

Joanne Hoglund, of Evergreen Park, said she hopes people just leave the girl and her family alone now.

"I feel sorry for her problems," Hoglund said. "For her to make up this story and carry it through as far as she did, something must be really wrong."

DiBrita and Bowman wondered whether the girl experienced a sexual assault in the past, and her lie was a strange attempt to bring it to the surface. Either way, news of the rape disturbed
them and inspired them to change some habits.

A neighborhood's (false) alarm

Bowman, who works as a waitress at Durbin's in Tinley Park, said bouncers there have walked female employees to their cars every night since the alleged incident.

They weren't the only ones who were scared enough by the news to look over their shoulders more often.

Cathy Baumann is co-owner of Baumann's Bakery in Palos Heights, immediately north of the T.J. Grinders sub shop, where the alleged abduction happened.

She said the incident led her to have "long talks" with her younger employees about what they should do, including calling the cops, if something seemed suspicious.

Although the bakery closes at 5:30 p.m., Baumann said she often would open the door for customers picking up an order late. She stopped doing that after the alleged attack.

Marianne Howley, a Palos Heights resident who lives near T.J. Grinders, said news of the rape sent her neighborhood into a frenzy.

"Every time I saw a black car (the girl told police her attacker's car was black), I wondered if it was him," Howley said.

The girl described her attacker with olive skin.

A sketch of a man with dark hair and eyes and a heavy mustache circulated the neighborhood. It also was posted on a huge poster along Harlem Avenue, making many residents conclude the attacker was Arab.

The doubters

That part of the story made Kim Smith suspicious. The Evergreen Park resident said she felt bad for the girl at first, but thought the story sounded fishy.

"Something didn't seem right about it," Smith said. "It sounded too convenient that he was Arabic. I thought, 'Boy, that's an easy target.' I think there was bigger interest in it because of the Arab thing. If she said it was a white guy, it might not have got so much attention."

Jo Drucker, 70, of Evergreen Park, said she had a hunch the 17-year-old wasn't telling the truth.
"I think it's unfortunate when young people don't feel comfortable enough to go to their parents or whomever," Drucker said.

Marie Strutz, of Palos Heights, said children need to feel comfortable with their parents to open up.

"If one of my kids made the story up and she was 17, she would have a lot of grounding," Strutz said. "I feel sorry for her. Unless kids know they can have trust in you, they're not going to come and talk to you."

Gossip about the false accusation circulated for about two weeks, and Baumann said she heard it from customers.

"People were saying they had heard rumors that she'd made it up," Baumann said.

She admitted there were parts of the story that made her skeptical. "As a mother, it just didn't jibe."

Mary Gallagher, 39, of Worth, wondered what would have happened if police had caught someone who resembled the girl's description of her "attacker."

"Why would someone make that up? There's obviously something wrong," Gallagher said. "I mean, even the association with (rape) after he was cleared would always haunt him."

The girl probably wants to be left alone, said Cecilia Andrews, of Chicago's Roseland neighborhood. Andrews was working on a class assignment at Moraine Valley Community College in Palos Hills.

Even though she doesn't know the whole story, Andrews said people shouldn't make up their minds one way or the other right now.

"It sounds like a pretty elaborate tale. I've told some fibs in my day, but that's a big one," Andrews said. "I would want to know why she said that (she was raped). Is she really recanting because she made it up or because she just wants to be done with it?"

Make her pay?

Andrews said the girl should not be prosecuted or have to repay money from the investigation, especially since the girl never named a specific person.

"I think there are a lot of people who probably want her to pay the money back," Andrews said. "But she has made her apologies."

Jim Kocim, 54, of Palos Heights was upset to know police time was wasted investigating a false claim. The investigation is said to have cost more than $250,000.

"It's very upsetting the (Palos Heights police) took the time from all those police detectives only for her selfish reason," Kocim said. "It's a shame."

Kevin McClain thinks the girl should have to repay the village, since it was taxpayer dollars that went toward finding a nonexistent attacker.

"I think they should have told her that she wouldn't be prosecuted to get her to confess and then prosecuted her anyway," said McClain, of Tinley Park. "I think it's not a surprise that she lied.

People lie and make things up for their own entertainment."

Bowman said she's glad the village won't press charges against the girl, or go after her parents for the money spent on the investigation.

"It's not the parents' fault," said Bowman, of Chicago Ridge. "They're probably just as distraught as the police department about all this."

The girl's motivation might change DiBrita's and Bowman's opinions. If she had money or revenge in mind, the women think she should be held accountable.

Either way, McClain said he thinks the incident will make life harder for future rape victims.

Police might not believe a woman, and may not respond as quickly because of their doubts.

"Then it will make it even more traumatic for someone who's dealing with something that's already traumatic," McClain said. "What do they say about the boy who cried wolf?"

Link: http://www.southtownstar.com/news/1216398,...8react2.article

ANOTHER ARTICLE:

[url="http://www.southtownstar.com/news/1216546,101208rapefoloB.article"]Girl had 'very big error of judgement'
Teen who fabricated assault story will do community service[/url]

By KIM JANSSEN, Staff writer

The girl who cried wolf in the Palos Heights rape case has agreed to do community service as penance, her attorney said Saturday as the public reacted with a mixture of sympathy and outrage to news that a hoax was behind one of the Southland?s biggest criminal investigations.
Police officially closed their investigation into the alleged Sept. 16 abduction and rape of the 17-year-old Stagg High School senior Friday afternoon after the girl confessed to fabricating the story.

Her family released a statement offering their ?deepest apologies? to the community Friday. Rumors that her story was untrue had circulated openly for two weeks.

Her original allegation that she had been kidnapped from T.J. Grinders sandwich shop in the 12200 block of South Harlem Avenue and subjected to a three-hour sexual ordeal at knifepoint by an ?olive-skinned? man prompted an estimated $250,000 police probe, provoked widespread fear and stoked anti-Arab sentiment in the diverse neighborhood.

Racial fallout ?unintentional?

Speaking Saturday, her family?s attorney, Martin Dolan, said the girl and her family ?understand the anger that this has caused.?

In an apparent reference to the anti-Arab feelings stirred by her false claims, Dolan said the family was particularly sorry ?for any ill feelings this has caused against particular ethnic groups,? stressing that the fallout was ?entirely unintentional.?

Once the girl, who is ?suffering from some pretty serious emotional problems? has completed counselling and is ?back on her feet,? she will volunteer with the village, Dolan said.

?The family is extremely remorseful,? he said. ?This was an immature kid who made a very big error of judgement and never intended for this to rise to the level it did.?

Police accepted the offer of community service when the girl confessed Friday, Dolan said.
Detective Dave Delaney said he believed the family ? who were not at home Friday night or Saturday ? were ?doing everything they can to make this thing right.?

?They?re going through a pretty tough time right now,? Delaney said.

Community service at the police department normally includes chores like washing squad cars, weeding the lawn and flower beds and non-sensitive paperwork, Delaney said.

Details about how many service hours the girl will complete and when she will do them are not yet finalized.

Girl won?t be charged

The Cook County State?s Attorney?s office said Friday they will not charge the girl or pursue her family for the cost of the investigation.

Detectives negotiated to have the girl confess in return for a guarantee not to prosecute her, police sources say.

In the absence of a confession, there was insufficient evidence to bring charges, the sources said. Concern for the girl?s well-being also weighed in the decision not to press charges.

Dolan said the family never could hope to pay for the cost of the investigation but that they hoped their daughter?s contrition would be demonstrated by her service.

?The community service is never going to make up for the sum of the anger that may exist, but to punish this girl with criminal charges that makes it impossible to get a job when she is older isn?t going to help,? he said.

Gifts given to the girl and the family in the wake of her rape claims will be donated to rape victim charities, Dolan said.

Calls for support

The Rev. Edward Cronin, pastor of St. Alexander?s Church, on Saturday called on neighbors and schoolmates to support the girl who fabricated a story about being abducted and sexually assaulted Sept. 16.

?People understandably are asking questions and they are angry,? he said. ?And of course she needs to take responsibility for what she did, but I think people will be sensitive to her.
?We need to show tremendous compassion and try to help.?

Palos Heights Ald. Jean Gnap echoed Cronin?s message.

?If anyone has any charity in their heart they would think of what the family must have gone through and say a prayer that they can pull through this difficult time,? she said.

A team of 30 detectives had worked around the clock with the South Suburban Major Crimes Task Force to search for the alleged rapist in the immediate aftermath of the girl?s report.

Fabricated story

She had texted a pal twice during the evening of Sept. 16, telling him a ?creepy? man was watching her through the window at the sandwich shop where she worked ? just yards from and in full view of a fire station.

About 9 p.m., she called her friend and asked him to pick her up and drive her home, saying the man had returned as she closed the shop.

But by the time the friend, a fellow senior at Stagg, arrived just minutes later, the girl was missing and her bag and cigarettes were scattered on the sidewalk.

Police immediately launched a manhunt and were at the girl?s home, interviewing her parents, when she walked up the driveway barefoot and unkempt, claiming to have been raped.

T. J. Grinders owner Mark Holda endured public criticism in the days following the girl?s accusation, as residents questioned why he had allowed the girl to work alone at night.

Holda took to the streets to assist in the investigation, handing out fliers and saying the girl was confident working alone.

He declined to comment Saturday as he tried to rebuild his damaged business.

Workers in neighboring stores ? many of whom joined the criticism of him last month ? said he walked up and down the 12200 block of South Harlem Avenue Friday afternoon tearing down wanted posters.

Link: http://www.southtownstar.com/news/1216546,...pefoloB.article

From: The False Rape Society]]> Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:00:00 -0700 19392 <![CDATA[GS:Reader Confronts McCain on Fathers' Rights]]> http://mgtow.net/ipbforum/index.php?showtopic=19385
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A recent letter from Dr. Blake Thornton, a longtime reader in Missouri:


Dear Glenn,


I went to see McCain today in St Charles MO.  I was able to ask him:


Me: "Is there anything you can do for divorced father to see their kids?"


McCain: "Yes sir."


Me: "What can you do, what can you do for divorced fathers?"


McCain: [says nothing and walks off]


Pretty telling.  McCain is not going to help fathers.


The audio of the brief incident is above or here. I'm not sure I agree that this is evidence of McCain's thinking, since the incident was in the middle of a (probably) chaotic campaign rally.


However, I do know one thing--we should have had thousands of guys like Dr. Thornton out there confronting the Democratic and Republican candidates.


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From: Glenn Sacks Blog]]> Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:41:13 -0700 19385 MisAnDrope:M is for MisAnDrope 2006 http://mgtow.net/ipbforum/index.php?showtopic=19383 Notable Quotables from 2006

Note: some of the titles for the quotes are not from MisAnDrope's original post titles...some I took the liberty of taking the quotes out of context to give 'em a more general relvance to the the basic idea he was expressing.

N is for Not-So-Happy New Year
"New York divorce lawyer Suzanne Bracker says she believes the top cause of divorce is infidelity ? and the holiday season may be when people discover their partners' hanky-panky."

You would think that a divorce lawyer would know the basic facts and statistics about divorce - that women seek the majority of divorces, and that 'fault' is only claimed in the minority of cases. Divorce is mostly, and in the majority of cases, about getting rid of an inconvenient man, and gaining a slave. Why have an equal, when you can have a servant, care of the state?

M is for Ma Jersey (The New Jersey Nanny State)
Ma Jersey never wanted you to succeed as an absentee parent anyway. She just wants you as a deadbeat dad statistic, helping to show that her politicians are beating the bad guys and protecting the poor defenseless wives.

C is for Choice
When NOW argues for abortion rights, they talk about 'choice' and we hear about single mother's decreased standards of living, and loss of educational and work opportunities. But try and raise those same issues with respect to men, all of a sudden the fetus becomes a CHILD, with RIGHTS that must, apparently be enforced against un-consenting MEN.

I is for Injustice
Another bizarre argument is that NOT forcing MEN to support these children, is that society will bear the burden and it is better for a single man to suffer a lot unjustly than for us all to suffer a little through taxation.

I say injustice is injustice, and the court cannot curtail an individual's rights without a showing of fault or responsibility. In this case, a WOMAN has a choice - to be responsible for her child, or not, or not have the child at all. She can drop the child off at a hospital or police station without responsibility in most states. No one asks if she should be working to offset the debt that society will incur raising her child.

But a MAN has no such choice. A woman is NOT responsible. She can choose whatever outcome she desires. A man IS HELD responsible. He has no choice.

C is for Choice
Men have no choice, or one choice: Whatever the woman chooses.

G is for Gynocracy
Many deny the Gynocracy we live in - but the reality is just outside our doors.

If you are reading this during working hours, finish scanning this entry, and then pack it in for 30 minutes. Pack it in, and go to your nearest park. Fresh air will do you good.

Now count.

Count the number of working-age men, and the number of working-age women who have the ability to enjoy the park during the day. I usually come up with one man for every 4-5 women. Sometimes less men.

The long and the short of it is that men have to work.
For women, as with so many things (maternity for instance), it's an option.

Welcome to the Gynocracy.

D is for Decompression
I know what gets written in this blog is often dark, and unhappy as I protest the bias against men that is so prevalent in our culture and courts. It is good to remember that I complain about the bias in an existence where I have my kids, where I have a beloved new spouse, and in spite of being enslaved, very poor, and frequently sued, I am also much, much happier and more fulfilled.

A is for Apology
We live in an interesting world.

I apologize for not commenting on it more, but I am busy being a slave to my ex.

K is for Keywords
Accountability and responsibility are the keywords here. Women need, first of all, to be held responsible for their actions. And this means supporting THEIR OWN children. If they want a man to help, they have to work to keep him around. If the court system is going to make men (and far too often random men) slaves to women who purportedly had children with them, then they AT LEAST should ensure that the women actually spend the money on necessities for the children. Why not have the men pay into the food-stamp program, and give the women food-stamps to help feed the kids? If we are going to enslave men, it sounds like one way to be sure we aren't rewarding criminal women for their crime. Which is what we do now.

L is for Legal System
So yes, our legal system, and the rights afforded us by our system of government are amazing. Perhaps some day, someone will get around to re-applying those rights to divorced men.


M is for Marriage Strike
The younger generation of men has already wised up. Why else are 40% of all children born out of wedlock, and why else are married people now a minority? The activist courts and legislatures have made marriage a non-starter for men. Hopefully someone will explain it to them in really simple words that they can understand, and do it soon, before we become a nation of bastards.

S is for Second Wives
And while I am celebrating good things, I want to celebrate my current wife, and all second wives. They buy into a world where their privacy is routinely violated, they accept pre-broken families, distraught children, evil ex-wives, and men whose financial contribution is little to naught, supporting us until our ex-wives decide to get on with their lives, which is most often never...

...and effectively supporting the excesses of our ex-wives. Knowing what I know now, I am not sure I would ever blame a woman for deciding not to date a divorcee. We are damaged goods, our entire financial future resting on the whim of an ex-wife in whose interest it is to keep us continuously poor and under their thumb. The legal system affords ex-wives a 'legal', free slave, and free enforcement through probation. So simple, so easy, so legal... - few people can withstand that kind of temptation. And second wives buy into that world, truly, marrying for love.

From: M Is For Malevolent]]> Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:53:00 -0700 19383 GS:We take rape seriously but refuse to take false accusations of rape seriously http://mgtow.net/ipbforum/index.php?showtopic=19380

Woman's False Rape Claim Sets off Police Manhunt for Innocent Man
December 19th, 2007 by Glenn Sacks


First an excerpt from the article, and then a few thoughts. From Rape claim was cover for cheating on husband, charges allege (Minneapolis Star Tribune, 12/18/07):


A St. Paul psychologist who claimed she was raped by a patient in her office in October 2006 has instead been charged with falsely reporting a crime.


Authorities say that Jill Ajao, 41, made the rape claim to conceal an extramarital affair and to "protect herself and her family." The false report prompted a detailed police investigation, the release of a suspect sketch and surveillance photo and the sifting through of hundreds of tips, according to the criminal complaint filed last week.


Police spokesman Tom Walsh said Tuesday that it was unusual for his department to seek the charges against a woman who claimed to be a victim and police did so only after a thorough investigation.


"It's extremely rare. It's rare because we don't want victims not to report" a crime, he said. "But it's very clear that this young woman was not sexually assaulted. And given the fear that she created in our community, we felt that this action was necessary."


Falsely reporting a crime is a misdemeanor, punishable by up to 90 days in jail and a $1,000 fine...


"A factor in seeking charges, Walsh said, was that the man she said raped her had been subjected to public attention when his photo was shown in the media to help police solve an alleged rape"...


A few thoughts:


1) It is interesting that the police spokesman said that it is unusual for his department to charge women who have made false rape reports.  For one, he does not deny that false claims happen, or try to say they are rare. Also, he sounds almost apologetic about charging the woman.  Here the woman did great harm to an innocent man, and at worst she may get a whopping 90 days in jail, yet the police seem almost embarrassed to be bringing charges.


2) In these types of cases usually everybody ignores another factor-- this man was publicly identified as a rapist on the loose, and could easily have been the target of vigilante action.


3) The police claim that they do not want to prosecute false accusers because it will make genuine rape victims hesitant to come forward. I've never seen much validity to this argument. I can't imagine that a woman who came forward with a credible rape accusation would ever be prosecuted for it. Perhaps one of the feminists who read this blog knows of such a case--if so, please feel free to bring it to my attention.


It seems to me that by prosecuting false accusers we will not reduce the number of genuine victims reporting rape but instead reduce the number of false accusers.


4) I try hard to be fair to feminists and feminist organizations, but I find their silence over false rape accusations to be increasingly infuriating.  "Silence" is actually a kind way of putting it, since they usually deny that false accusations are a problem. (To learn more about the prevalence of false accusations of rape, see my recent column U. of Maryland right to deny protesters a forum to publicly name alleged rapists, Baltimore Sun, 10/15/07).


I wish that in reading these types of articles, which readers send to me continuously, that once, just once, I would read something like this:


"Jane Doe, executive director of the local chapter of the National Organization for Women, expressed her displeasure with Ajao.  Doe explains:


"'What Ajao did is very harmful.  It is terrible to falsely accuse a man of a serious crime like rape.  It hurts him, and it also hurts all women who are victims of sexual assault, because it undermines the credibility of their claims.  We want rapists in jail.  We do not want innocent men victimized.'"


Is that too much to ask?


The full story, with a timeline of the case, can be seen here.


Now the update a year later--from Psychologist who falsely claimed rape gets license suspended (Star Tribune, 10/15/08):


A psychologist who admitted to lying to police about being raped in her St. Paul office has had her license suspended indefinitely by the state Board of Psychology.


Jill Ajao, 42, made up the rape claim to cover up consensual sex she had with a man she met online, authorities said.


She pleaded guilty in April to a misdemeanor charge of falsely reporting a crime, and was ordered then to serve 20 days in jail, to pay $3,275 restitution and to get therapy.


In a recent nine-page order, the state Board of Psychology wrote that Ajao's "conduct in reporting the alleged rape raises questions about her ability to practice psychology with reasonable skill and safety to clients."


I love that--the false rape claim "raises questions about her ability to practice psychology with reasonable skill and safety to clients." Gee, you think?


One more example of how our society demands (correctly) that we take rape seriously but refuses to take false accusations of rape seriously.


Thanks to Justin, a reader, for sending the article.


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From: Glenn Sacks Blog]]> Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:11:44 -0700 19380 FRS:Why should rape accusers be exempt from polygraphs? http://mgtow.net/ipbforum/index.php?showtopic=19382
And what if they had refused to take the polygraphs? Well, it is no stretch to assume they would still be in jail.

There is, of course, no guarantee that men accused of rape will be offered the opportunity to take a polygraph test, or that they would be released from jail even if they pass the polygraph test. But if given the chance, men accused of rape had better take the test if they want to be released from jail.

So why aren't rape accusers required to take polygraphs? Well, even though the tests are considered in some sense valid when men accused of rape are asked to take them, the women who accuse the men of rape say they should be exempt from taking them. You see, rape victims' advocates have lobbied state and local governments "to ban or discourage police from asking rape accusers to take polygraph tests. They have contended that women will be discouraged from reporting sexual assaults if police don't simply take them at their word, without question." S. Taylor, KC Johnson, Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case, 378 (2007).

No one is interested in causing undue stress to persons who have traumatized by a rape. But is a polygraph more stressful to a rape accuser than a stint in jail is to an innocent man falsely accused?

The question scarcely survives its statement.

And if you don't think it's common that innocent men are jailed for rapes they didn't commit, spend several hours reading this Web site to see the actual news accounts of that very thing happening. And then read the objective sources that place false rape claims anywhere from nine to more likely closer to fifty percent.

If a polygraph would keep an innocent man from languishing in jail, we should not exempt rape accusers from polygraph tests. Let us be blunt: if the insistence that rape accusers submit to a polygraph test keeps a hypothetical rape victim from "coming forward" resulting in a rapist remaining at large, as terrible as that is, that result is preferable to allowing an innocent man to be jailed for a crime he did not commit. That is really the bottom line. (Some radical feminists do not agree with that, which tells us everything we need to know about their vile agenda.)

The fact of the matter is that polygraphs are routinely used by law enforcement officials, and they are a particularly important tool in one specific area of the criminal justice system -- insuring that sex offenders (who, incidentally, are predominantly male) are adhering to the terms of their probation. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, for example, has upheld the use of polygraphs for this purpose, saying that polygraph testing "produces an incentive to tell the truth, and thereby advances the sentencing goals." The vast majority of states require polygraphs for use when it comes to sex offenders. Thus, polygraphs are perfectly acceptable when used on men who want to avoid a vile sex charge. Do you see the pattern here? Let's spell it out:

Polygraphs: good, when men are asked to take them to help law enforcement officials discern if they've committed a vile sex crime;

Polygraphs: bad, when women are asked to take them to help law enforcement officials discern if they are lying about being victimized by a man's alleged vile sex crime.

This is a gross and intellectually dishonest double standard. No rationale justifies exempting rape accusers from submitting to polygraphs. Such exemption only serves to exalt the radical feminist agenda to jack up rape convictions over any concern for innocent men falsely accused of rape. But that, after is, is really the entire purpose of this immoral, politically driven double double standard, isn't it?

And that is a disgrace.

HERE IS THE NEWS STORY:

2 accused of Sumpter Township rape pass polygraphs

by Susan Oppat The Ann Arbor News

Monday October 13, 2008, 11:15 AM

Two men who were accused by a Sumpter Township woman of raping her in August passed polygraph exams, and will not be charged, Sumpter Township Police Sgt. Mike Czinski said today.

Czinski said Wayne County prosecutors have also refused to file charges against the 18-year-old woman for filing a false police report.

The woman had told police the men assaulted her in the Rawsonville Woods mobile home where they all lived.

Link: http://www.mlive.com/annarbornews/news/ind...ss_polygra.html

From: The False Rape Society]]> Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:00:00 -0700 19382 <![CDATA[GS:Harvard Medical School Psychiatrist: 'I've seen parental alienation in case after case']]> http://mgtow.net/ipbforum/index.php?showtopic=19381 New York Times published a review of Alec Baldwin's book about Parental Alienation. Henry J. Friedman of Cambridge, Massachusetts, an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, wrote a spot-on reply.


From Bloodied Relations (New York Times, 10/17/08):


As a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who has treated many grieving parents deprived of a relationship with their children during a nasty divorce, I can only regret Alex Kuczynski?s review of Alec Baldwin?s account of his experience in ?A Promise to Ourselves? (Oct. 5).


While I have no data on Baldwin?s divorce from Kim Basinger, I have seen the very real existence of parental alienation syndrome in case after case where one parent is enraged at the other and proceeds to poison the children against the ?enemy? parent.


While many times it is a father who is demonized by an angry mother, the gender of the parent being turned into a ?monster? by the custodial parent can be reversed.Who the victim of P.A.S. turns out to be is entirely dependent upon the willingness of the parent with physical custody to ?brainwash? a child against the other parent. The loss of the child?s relationship to the hated ex-spouse delivers a message that this is the price you will pay for getting a divorce.


Baldwin?s memoir of his dreadful experience is an important contribution from an individual whose celebrity status may help him call attention to other fathers who have been the victims of parental alienation syndrome.


Henry J. Friedman
Cambridge, Mass.
The writer is an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.


Thanks to Peter Logan for sending me Friedman's letter.


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