And people who come into threads like these and push false accusation concerns are forwarding an effort to discredit real accusations whether they mean to or not.
Um, no. Things are not mutually exclusive. Victims should absolutely speak up. I'm not ignorant to the fact that sexual assault is traumatic and can cause victims to stay quiet, and we have to do more to systemically empower victims' voices.
That doesn't mean I'm wrong when I say that vengeful, wrong accusations happen, they are serious, the stakes are high, and they should be acknowledged seriously, not disregarded just because they are rare. I distinctly remember a thread here where in the news, some ex-girlfriend accused her boyfriend of rape, and they didn't even investigate the truth. Thankfully, he had proof.
When surgeons perform surgery, they provide the surgery success rates to the patient. Even if the surgery is successful 99% of the time, they still push the concern of the risk that, 1% of the time, it is not. And that has dire consequences.
If your primary concern isn't the dramatically statistically larger number of situations that go unreported and unpunished and instead demanding we keep the much smaller number of liars in mind at all times you are working to discredit victims by seeding doubt unnecessarily.
I didn't say it was my primary concern. There has been plenty of support on this forum for the large number of victims' voices. We all want them to be heard.
My post was simply giving true, real examples in my life that demonstrate why we shouldn't hand-wave the sensitivity of the instructor-student relationship, and it triggered you.