• velma@sh.itjust.works
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    19 hours ago

    Rape and sexual assault occurr more often than fake accusations.

    This is a factually true statement regardless of how anyone feels about it.

    Survivors rarely make false reports about sexual assault. Only 6% of sexual assaults are reported to the police. And false accusations of sexual assault happen no more than false reports of other types of crime: about 2% to 4%, which means 96% to 98% of the reports are true.

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        19 hours ago

        Justifying that men should wear these glasses in order to avoid a false accusation of sexual assault sure is something you can do.

        Since rape and sexual assault happen at much, much higher frequencies, wouldn’t it make more sense to push that women should be wearing these glasses everywhere?

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          17 hours ago

          Thank you, I wasn’t the person you were originally replying too and honestly just didn’t know what you were driving at, but that really does connect the dots.

          Personally the idea of third-party to hold people accountable is something i am in favor in general. “Honor” societies sound and look miserable to me, with constant need for displays of power and dominance just to avoid brutality and the idea of justice being an impartial actor is a good thing to me. I do not trust the State currently to be that at the interpersonal level or Meta (or any for profit corporation) so they can’t be a good impartial judge needed. So I think any person of any gender assigning them to be so like this is a bad idea, though maybe private storage might be acceptable? I still find that level of distrust for interpersonal relationship sad.

          I have and expect most women do, use a message location tracking shared with friends when meeting a stranger in a private or intimate way, so we am closer to that path than I really thought of before.