I want to mention that regardless of who is right in this discussion, I decided to upvote and agree this comment strongly, for the following reason: I definitely want to flag that this part of your comment below is very important, since this context is really important for people that don’t grok sexual assault to notice, and in particular we have good reason to believe that the biases are self-serving.
It’s really common for people with misogynist beliefs to declare a rape allegation “manifestly false” even when it’s true, because they have a lot of false beliefs around sexual assault or around the psychology of trauma.
I want to mention that regardless of who is right in this discussion, I decided to upvote and agree this comment strongly, for the following reason: I definitely want to flag that this part of your comment below is very important, since this context is really important for people that don’t grok sexual assault to notice, and in particular we have good reason to believe that the biases are self-serving.