“My English lit teacher once told me that everything in life comes [down] to sex and/or money.”

Your English Lit class was clearly more interesting than mine!

Until Next Time,
~C~

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She caught a 20-year manslaughter bid.

Thanks for sharing your story. Even though it was a series of unfortunate events, I am glad to know you came through it and remain positive.

wow.

all i can say is, i’m in awe of the fact that you still seem to have a pretty positive outlook on things. that’s truly inspiring.

thanks for sharing, and welcome.

My name was plastered all over the news (locally and state wide), the front page of the newspaper and gossip throughout everyone’s mouth. I lost my GOOD paying job that I had just started. I Spent 28 days in jail and went through a deep stage of depression. I had to pack my bags and move back home with my parents because I had to leave town to save my face and I had no money to pay rent or bills because I had no job and could not get a job in this town of 20,000.

Long story short I spent (parents spent) over $20,000 in attorney’s fees for this lie that a female told on me. Even six years later when I google my name it is still the top article that pops up when my name is goggled. There are no articles written that say that this case was dismissed because it was proven that this girl was lying or to the fact that she never showed up to court. None of those stories can be found on the web.

Over the years it has been hard to date because of goggle and trying to explain that this is not true. It was hard to get a job at first because no one wanted to hire me. But I have moved on; this was a wakeup call for me and my life only changed for the better after this situation happened. It is still hard for me to talk about what happened 6 years ago but I am grateful to God for the blessing that he has brought me during this time. I did learn throughout this story that though they say “Innocent until proven guilty” I was GUILTY until proven innocent”

Been a lurker for sometime.

She found that a man is likely to get sentenced less time for murdering a woman, while a woman is likely to get 25 yrs or more.

Logically, it makes no sense to believe that because some chicks lie on dudes, your first reaction to a rape accusation should be to suspect the victim and blame her for what happened.

We know that the number of chicks who lie is low. We know that many chicks get raped by shady dudes all the time, particularly chicks who have “loose” backgrounds.

So, if we know all these things and still decided to blame the victim, can we really say that it’s because so many chicks lie?

In my opinion, that’s a smokescreen. It’s like the cops saying they racially profile because black people commit crimes. On the surface it makes sense, until you look at the fact that most black people DO NOT commit crimes, and far MORE white people break the law regularly.

We’re justifying questionable behavior by jumping on a flimsy explanation.
There are a host of reasons why cops racially profile and the black crime rate is not the main one.
There are a whole host of reasons why dude’s distrust rape accusations, and the lying of chicks is not the main one. It can’t be logically. I made my original response to you because I felt that your main point was that these lying chicks are just causing all these problems, and I think that’s not the case.

I don’t know what the true, deeper reason is for the initial reaction, but I know a deeper reason exists. At least in my opinion. But, if we disagree, that’s cool too.