A lot of men (and also women, but mostly men) prefer to believe that the majority of women who report rapes or sexual assaults are lying. “Crying rape” is such a common phrase, isn’t it? It’s endemic. She was drunk, she’s a slag, she just wants to get money from selling her story... the same phrases get rolled out every time. Even when the Savile stuff started coming out, my own dad said “Ah, they just want money”. From WHO? He’s dead!I'm a bit baffled by the "poor John Leslie" commenters on DM today, to be honest.
It’s pure misogyny. There are a lot of fragile men out there who get the rage when toxic masculinity in all its forms is pointed out. They won’t accept that men, as a class, are a danger to women, as a class.
(Please no one come at me with “not all men are like that”. I know. I’ve been very deliberate with my words).