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Originally Posted by dr2005

Were we discussing the family court system I could perhaps agree with you. On the subject of rape and serious sexual assaults, however, the statistics and case reports would suggest quite the opposite - if anything the most inherent bias is against women who are perceived both by juries and some members of the judiciary as being "loose women". There have been efforts to clamp down on such attitudes but it is by no means a resolved problem.

There's nothing we can legally do other than say that we don't need evidence. If you can't produce concrete evidence that someone raped you, you're dumb as fuck to think that anyone's going to believe you, and nobody should. The only way you can make these cases different is to find a reliable scientific way of telling, or to make it Guilty until proven Innocent. That's all there is to it. If there's concrete evidence that a person raped you, the courts have to accept that, but if there's no evidence, I don't know what you expect.. But on the other hand, the moment a man is accused of rape, his entire life is then over simply because there's anonymity for the accuser but not the accused, which is blatantly wrong; both should be held anonymous unless the accused is convicted.