When "He abducted her, tied her up and violently raped her" gets the same repercusions as...

[Igel]

53. All the penalties are informal.

That's the problem with this kind of "litigation". The claims are verified in secret, often by sympathetic reporters motivated to make sure the claims check out, and are not subject to cross examination. One side dictates the rules, not the laws.

Last year a female student unexpected hugged me. She meant, I'm sure, nothing by it except, "It was a great year, thanks for being a nice teacher." I've had a variety of females give me a pro-forma hug of greeting or departure, sometimes with a pro-forma cheek kiss. Never considered it sexual assault.

I've had anti-male or male-degrading jokes told in my presence. Often by women who had heard the same kinds of things in reverse. The men didn't mean to belittle the women any more than the women meant to belittle the men in any serious kind of way.

Had it been a man hugging a woman teacher, that teacher might have said it was an unwanted advance. Does it matter what the guy intended? No.

Yeah, there's a power imbalance between the two sexes. Doesn't mean every male thinks the same way any more than it means every female thinks the same way. Or that intent doesn't matter--it's just that intent's damnably hard to prove.

Just like memory is very hard to maintain unaltered.