Washington DV Press

If less than 50 percent is your answer, you are correct.

Marc Angelucci’s response to a recent episode of reported rapes in the San Diego area highlights important factors that are almost never considered.

Even the article stated that in the heightened sense of the report, things are frequently skewed:

“To begin, Brown laid out a quick overview of the recent incidents that have occurred on campus because of rumors and incorrect stories that were spread on campus through text messages and e-mails. He said people were taking pieces from each story and making new incidents that actually never happened.”

Often left out are mitigating factors of women behaving badly such as what happened in the Air Force, where they don’t fool around with such accusations. Here is what they found:

When the U.S. Air Force annonymously questioned about 300 women who alleged rape, about 20 percent admitted they lied either just before taking a lie detector test or right after failing one.

According to a nine-year study conducted by former Purdue sociologist Eugene J. Kanin, in over 40 percent of the cases reviewed the complainants eventually admitted that no rape had occurred. (Archives of Sexual Behavior, Vol. 23, No. 1, 1994.)

Men’s lives are also at stake here. We should recognize the frequency of false reporting and fix it so the real victims out there get the help they need. What we have now is a diluted system which convicts those who are falsely accused and forgives those who make the false accusations.

Of course, this will enrage all of the gender-feminists out there who disappear when information like this is disseminated instead of going after those who so dearly hurt their cause. I am left shaking my head as to why this is still happening. Not even perjury charges were filed after the Duke La Crosse team was falsely accused. Somebody did correctly lose their job, but more is needed.