[quote]Contrary to what popular culture and men's rights activists would have you believe, women do not routinely run around making up rape claims.
Like most people, I expect you go to the movies to be entertained. You might choose an action movie, with lots of special effects, or a dark thriller which keeps you on the edge of your seat. Right now you might choose Gone Girl, this autumn’s much-hyped mystery about the frantic search for a woman called Amy Dunne. Rosamund Pike plays the “girl” of the title – actually a thirtysomething wife – who has disappeared from her middle-class home in Missouri amid signs of a struggle.
Pike is English, and I can’t help wondering whether she or her co-star, Ben Affleck, is aware of a ground-breaking piece of research published last year by Britain’s then director of public prosecutions, Keir Starmer. I’m actually tempted to send a copy to both of them, and everyone else involved in this travesty of a movie. Affleck in particular, with his left-of-centre politics, should know better; he directed and starred in Argo, a movie so keen to be fair-minded that it began with a potted history of Iranian-American relations.
For Affleck, some relation to reality is clearly important. So why doesn’t that apply to domestic and sexual violence? Admittedly Affleck’s character in Gone Girl – he plays the husband, Nick Dunne – is particularly bone-headed, but the actor isn’t, so why didn’t he demand a disclaimer? Affleck wouldn’t dream of suggesting that the US had clean hands in events such as its historic support for the Shah of Iran, but recycling the most egregious myths about gender-based violence is, apparently, another matter.[/quote]
[url]http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/06/gone-girl-rape-domestic-violence-ben-affleck?commentpage=1[/url]
[QUOTE]The figures are stark. Starmer asked the Crown Prosecution Service to look at a 17-month period, during which there were 5,651 rape prosecutions and a staggering 111,891 for domestic violence. In the same period, only 35 women were prosecuted for making false allegations of rape and six for false claims of domestic violence. The standout finding was that occasions when a suspect deliberately makes a false allegation of rape or domestic violence “purely out of malice” are “extremely rare”.[/QUOTE]
This doesn't account for the false rape claims that aren't prosecuted.
What's her point? That the girl in the movie lied about rape or something?
I'm sorry, but if you think that Amy is representative of all women, then that's not the fault of the movie, it's your own dumb complexes making you think she is.
Also, nowhere in the story is there rape from what I can see when reading summaries of the movie.
And finally: This isn't news.
[QUOTE=ScottyWired;46180904]This doesn't account for the false rape claims that aren't prosecuted.[/QUOTE]
It also doesn't account for rape claims that aren't prosecuted, which there are a lot of. A lot of victims don't go to the police. A lot who do aren't taken seriously. Some are even pressured by the police into dropping charges.
I saw some statistics a few months back for my local area - only something shitty like 9% of rapes resulted in prosecution. I'm looking for the source but haven't found it yet.
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Found it.
[quote=http://www.rapecrisisscotland.org.uk/facts/]It is estimated that between one and five and one in eight women report to the police. (British Crime Survey, 2000)
Figures published by the Crown Office in Scotland in 2011 for the period 2008/9 suggest a conviction rate for reported rapes of 7%.[/quote]
[url]http://www.crownoffice.gov.uk/media-site/media-releases/236-conviction-rates-for-rape-charges-in-scotland-2008-09[/url]
How is this news? This is just some dumb feminist pissed at life.
Business as usual.
[QUOTE=Miskav;46180946]How is this news? This is just some dumb feminist pissed at life.
Business as usual.[/QUOTE]
Stupid articles by major sites are always posted here. It's nothing new.
It's from the Guardian's "Comment is free" section. It's not [i]really[/i] a Guardian arcticle
[QUOTE=sambooo;46180966]It's from the Guardian's "Comment is free" section. It's not [i]really[/i] a Guardian arcticle[/QUOTE]
Didn't catch that. She only has like 79 articles dating back to 2000. My apologies.
[quote]Contrary to what popular culture and men's rights activists would have you believe, women do not routinely run around making up rape claims.[/quote]
That says pretty much all you need to know about the article, and it's the first line to boot.
The [sp]craziest person in the movie is a woman[/sp], and the smartest and most reasonable person in the movie, the lead detective, is also a woman. Not once does it suggest false rape allegations are common among women. [sp]The only person making the claim is portrayed to be completely psychopathic.[/sp]This article is dumb as hell.
Murders aren't as common as Rambo 3 led me to believe
This reminds me of one of my friend's brother's, His brother was in 6th grade when this happened, a girl who was in 9th and was known for stealing almost everything from the girl's locker room, claimed that his brother raped her for no goddamn reason, even though we believed that he didn't do it.
Later we (already) learned that she was lying after he told the story to the cops. Even the cops were like, seriously this couldn't of happened. Then she pulled off a story that she was pregnant for the next 8 months and she was due back a month ago and nothing happened. So far she hasn't said anything about it. But she is probably public enemy number one in my highschool, since she stole a phone from a Senior girl a few weeks ago and she tried to reset it, and she tried talk to the Senior's boyfriend and trying to get him to break up with the Senior. Psycho bitch.
my english teacher unironically sites The Guardian as a source of information
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