spemanig said:
mornelithe said:
True, however, the courts must award great deference to under oath testimony. It wasn't just that she said it, it was that she swore under oath during a secret deposition. This is literally the only proof that exists in the matter, and she expected the allegation to be enough for an injuction in court. Not sure what her lawyers were thinking, frankly. Oh wait, I know, they like money.
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I'm not saying that the judge was wrong in his decision given the unsturdy information provided. I'm just saying that it's ignorant for the internet to immediately assume that she's lying based on that. Rape is some of the most fucked up psychological trauma a person can go through. If she did get sexually assaulted, her decision-making isn't going to always be rational.
And frankly, I think it takes an eyerollingly suspicious cynic to immediately assume that the world is so fucked up a place, filled with such an overbearing quantity of horribly detestable scums, that it's more likely that a woman would attempt to publicly ruin someone's entire life by falsely accusing their boss of a crime as heinous as rape merely as a quick way to get out of a petty contract, one of which there is currently no alterior motivation as to why she'd want to get out of it in the first place, than to actually entertain the idea that she may actually be a traumatized victum shakily telling the truth.
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Oh no, I agree with you, I was just elaborating on why her previous statements on the matter held such weight. I mean, if she hadn't been sworn when she said those things in the past, this case may have gone a different direction, because then it comes down to he said/she said. In this case, it was she said vs she said.
As far as the second part, nobody wants to assume it, because it IS horribly detestable. However, we have seen it already play out, in several scenarios for less. The girl who claimed she was gangraped that Sabrina Erdley reported on in the UVA scandal, lied, in order to get a guy she liked to basically be her knight in shining armor. She created a false persona, and literally texted herself, her friends, and this guy from said persona, to try and get him jealous. When that didn't work, she cooked up the gang rape story. And this is the shit that makes people pause, that's why false accusations are so fucked up, because not only have you ruined the life of some innocent person, but you're also putting that bit of doubt in people's minds about other claims. And notice, they still don't use her actual name, even though the entire story has been debunked, the texts/emails that this girl sent are out in the open etc... and yet, the only actual names we know are the men who were falsely accused. That is so fucked up.
