Let it sink.

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121. Regularly enough to "spike the numbers" though, apparently

Negligible numbers don't cause statistical "spikes." The poster's point is clear enough.

Your instinct is to rush out to defend him with an anecdote that "proves him right." And of course, everyone, and I mean literally everyone who tries to defend this position has the same motherfucking anecdote. "I have a buddy whose life was ruined by a bitch faking rape!"

I'm left to wonder, maybe it's the same guy, and he just has a lot of friends on twitter, or something?

You might think it's "arrogant" to condemn someone for claiming that rape statistics are gratuitously padded by "fake rape," but the fact is, these sort of claims are what leads to the chronic underreporting of rape. It's what leads to Rapists getting away with it. Now i'm sure that's not the poster's intention, or yours, but at the very least, you should realize what that sort of dumbassed thetoric contributes to.

"Oh, she's faking it" is the mentality that led Sarah Palin's Wasilla to bill victims of rape for the rape kits used. it presumes the fault lies with htewoman, that either she's "making it up" or "she asked for it."

A little goddamned awareness, is it too much to ask?