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traumatized, I mean, your entire sexual history can come into play, if it's extensive or unconventional it will certainly be used against you, and on top of that, why is "resolution" needed on someone else's personal decision? Seems like that part is resolved & cross examination

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rather than sympathy/support from parts of her own twitter following is a good example of why someone might be hesitant to report? I know you're questioning why not report rather than what happened, but still, geez. Sorry if I'm coming off hostile but I'm not getting what is

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difficult to understand here even w/out knowing specifics? Or why she has to defend her decision?

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Because when you bring up personal experiences to justify political claims those personal experiences become the subject of scrutiny. If you don't want to discuss them you shouldn't bring them up on a platform for discussion.And I'm not interrogating anyone. Replying is voluntary

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Ok so we can go through all these: most claims don't see trial. How does this compare with other types of crimes? Are cops purposely putting up unnecessary roadblocks to make more cases make it to trial? What are they? Do they exist for a good reason?

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Prosecutors don't take cases they don't think they can win. Yes. Correct. This is a reflection of the difficulty of adjudicating he said she said claims. This is the core reality of many of these incidents.

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Also "he said/she said" implies there is no other evidence, tho you do have wacked out (flatly evil) defense/juries doing things like making the case (and getting an acquittal) where things ON VIDEOTAPE are framed as "consensual" and "audition tape for weird kind of porn"

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see: gang rape of unconscious woman who passed out as party, videotape, "audition for unconscious porn" or some such bullshit, and an audio, iirc, of police raping a woman where the claim was it was all a rough sex game, even tho they hadn't known her before this.

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See also: everyone on both juries and defense teams should have their various body parts mixed in w/the rapists and strewn over a city block, while I get to listen to their recorded death screams as my go-to-sleep music. :-) (sorry, needed to vent after recalling these)

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Ok. Vent away. But then come back to reality to realize there are real issues here that don't have easy solution and throwing around random statistics and gruesome anecdotes doesn't not help people in my opinion.

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Anecdotal data is useful as long as you're aware of its limitations, selection effects, etc. I'm not expecting my anecdote to be taken as strong evidence; I mean it as a singular, small data point that can update your views as much as you trust me.

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Useful for what though? I am aware of it's limitations and selection effects. But its not treated like any other anecdote and you know it. It has a huge emotional weight and it would be sociopathic for me to argue about it's emotional relevance to you. So what is to be achieved?