Brett Kavanaugh

[~Rocktar~]

So first- recall my statement that it's incredibly rare outside of severe mental illness. Secondly, we've been talking about cases where someone specific is accused. The vast majority of cases deemed to be false rape cases don't involve an accusation against someone.


The UK did a study on this, and only 39 out of 216 false rape claims involved naming a specific person. This study is one the most comprehensive studies of false rape claims ever made. So that means that only about 18% of false rape claims involved a specific person being accused.

Based on the FBI study you cited and the UK study, that means that we're talking about a [.9% - (% of accounts from people with severe mental illness)] chance that this story is a false accusation.

So yes, false accusations against specific people are incredibly rare

[Taernath]

The spin is happening! It's happening!



time4fun: "We can just discount the idea that she is suffering from mental illness! That's just impossible!"

To whom did she originally tell her story to?

time4fun: "Her therapist of course, silly!"

I can't even begin to make this shit up, it's just that fucking bizarre.

So ONLY within the last 10 years, AND doesn't involve a mental illness, AND requires a specific person to be accused, AND you have to average these two different studies together...

She was right man, welcome to fantasy land.

[Fortybox]

[time4fun]

So ONLY within the last 10 years, AND doesn't involve a mental illness, AND requires a specific person to be accused, AND you have to average these two different studies together...

She was right man, welcome to fantasy land.

I see my advice to grow up went over your head.

You're combining two different conversations for reasons that are unclear.

I'm sorry that it bothers you that I intentionally focused on situations that were analogous to this one, but that's a really ridiculous thing to complain about.

[Tgo01]

I see my advice to grow up went over your head.

You're combining two different conversations for reasons that are unclear.

I'm sorry that it bothers you that I intentionally focused on situations that were analogous to this one, but that's a really ridiculous thing to complain about.

Why can we discount the possibility that this woman suffers from mental issues when part of the "evidence" you say we should focus on came from her therapist? Can you ever answer a tough question instead of deflecting and gaslighting everyone?

[Archigeek]

Why can we discount the possibility that this woman suffers from mental issues when part of the "evidence" you say we should focus on came from her therapist? Can you ever answer a tough question instead of deflecting and gaslighting everyone?

Because it was couples therapy.

[time4fun]

Because it was couples therapy.

Also because she's a successful Psychology Professor with no criminal history nor any other history that would suggest serious mental issues aside from dealing with the fact that two guys allegedly tried to rape her with physical force.

[BriarFox]

Cui bono? This woman stands to gain nothing with this testimony but a lot of assholes questioning her mental stability and vilifying her. She'll feel the ramifications personally and professionally. She has every reason not to come forward -- but she did.

[cwolff]

Kavanaughs witness who said it didn't happen also wrote this piece in the Daily Caller

Condolences to Hillary Clinton, who wanted to be the first woman president. She just missed it.
Barack Obama is the first female president.
…
The problem is, Barack Obama doesn’t have just a streak of the feminine in him; he seems to be a woman, and a feminist one at that, with a streak of man in him.

He put this in his high school yearbook and doesn't seem to have grown up. Great witness to defend a man from sexual assault.

A quote from a playwright runs alongside the family photos on Mark Judge’s page in his high school yearbook: “Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs.”

[Parkbandit]

Cui bono? This woman stands to gain nothing with this testimony but a lot of assholes questioning her mental stability and vilifying her. She'll feel the ramifications personally and professionally. She has every reason not to come forward -- but she did.

Wait.. you believe she has nothing to gain?

What about stopping the SCOTUS appointment? Wouldn't that just make her an insta-celebrity to people like you? You fucking lunatics would have a parade for her and give her the key to your city.

She's a pro-Hillary supporter and an anti-Trump activist.

She's a professor of some useless class in a California college.

Kavanaugh's mother presided over her mother's foreclosure.

There are several axes to grind here.