Brian Iverson

Given the size and strength differential of most men and women, that doesn’t seem likely that the claim against the woman would be believed.

There are all sorts of documented cases of women drugging men and raping them. If the facts are known…why wouldn’t they be believed? Statutory rape is also a widely reported phenomena (especially famous c…[Read more]

But minimizing the number of falsely convicted will re-focus time and resources of the law towards bringing the unpunished guilty to justice. Really, both causes are two aspects of the same fight for justice.

Then why Eco do we almost only hear outrage of unjustly accused rapists as opposed to unjustly accused everything else? Not only is the…[Read more]

I think you’re straw-manning the diagram to fit your agenda that feminists, and their scientific integrity, can’t be trusted.

Indeed. It is curious the incredible energy some people put into trying to discredit or simply question the veracity of these statistics (and in very much particular sexual assault statistics). Even if a statistic such as…[Read more]

Unseen it sounds like you are trying to downplay the extremely high numbers of sexual assault, harassment and rape by insinuating that some of it is exaggerated (a pretty common trope throughout all of history that women who claim rape are hysterical and overstating things) or that because a few questionable cases of non-consensual sex are…[Read more]

 Who thinks the presumption of guilt by some court of public opinion is the right thing?

This wouldn’t be such a big deal if “fear of the court of public opinion” was consistently applied to allegations. It is not. Claims are generally believed for most other crimes. They are not for sexual assault or rape. In other words: 20 different people…[Read more]

Ahhh yes. When people are accused of trading fraud, beating their children, theft, assault, libel or murder…we are quick to take the charge seriously (or even believe it). This is most especially the case if 20 different people who don’t know one another accuse a person of theft or fraud. Honestly if 20 people who didn’t know one another accused…[Read more]

If Dawkins had made a casually racist comment then I doubt there would be much controversy. If he made a misogynist comment there would be less controversy. If it was a homophobic comment it would have been sort of controversial. But a trans-phobic comment meets mild controversy. Different kinds of bigotry are met with various levels of…[Read more]

I do think that religious people sometimes have to work hard to suppress atheistic feelings

I would say that this is an endless challenge for the religious. Especially as claims by the churches and their holy books become more and more impossible to defend. Even before the scientific method blew the lid off of the majority of garbage the bible and…[Read more]

Ironically with the Dawkins elevator began in a fairly stupid way:

A woman attending a conference had drinks until 4am with some of the attendees and she had gone up to her room in an elevator one of the male attendees (this was all after a speech and the drinks were in the hotel bar). He very politely suggested having coffee in his room. She…[Read more]

Yeah I was insanely lucky not to need transplants. Was off work for over a year. That communist Spanish government covered my sick leave for just over a year until I was able to work again. Can you imagine being taken care of so you can recover faster without stressing over finances/rent/non-rest? That sounds like an absolutely ghastly attack on…[Read more]