And women are not lying liars.
Why, when reading the catalogue of abuse and harassment that is the @everydaysexism feed – is there a group of men who in spite of the reports from 10’s of 1000’s of women from all over the world. In spite of not knowing the women concerned. In spite of being no where near the reported events, feel the need to conclude:
It never happened
Here are some examples.
@Hanna_Jameson @EverydaySexism Luckily, liberals have never been known to lie about something that didn't happen to fit their narrative.
— R Thomas (@Plate0fShrimp) May 18, 2015
@RaeCattach @EverydaySexism really though… Did this actually happen or are you just attention seeking??
— Calum Semmence (@Calum_Semmence) May 6, 2015
@emilynhoughton @EverydaySexism Is there any evidence this actually happened?
— Secret Ledger (@secret_ledger) May 20, 2015
What reason do you have, what TINY shred of evidence that this woman is lying. Why on earth would you not just believe her.
That tweet was followed by this – which I will conclude the answers to here:
@tonycollinet @emilynhoughton @EverydaySexism Really.
— Secret Ledger (@secret_ledger) May 20, 2015
You know, just looking around to see if I could see a fraction of the stuff on this thread. @tonycollinet @emilynhoughton @EverydaySexism
— Secret Ledger (@secret_ledger) May 20, 2015
Nothing. Not a sausage. So I'd question what anyone saw, TBH. Very easy to make these claims. @tonycollinet @emilynhoughton @EverydaySexism
— Secret Ledger (@secret_ledger) May 20, 2015
Really? You wandered around for a few hours and didn’t see anything, and from this you conclude that thousands of women reporting this stuff must by lying liars?
Lets put aside the fact that many perps of this sort of behaviour tend not to do it in the presence of watching bystanders. Or that the location makes a difference, or the time.
You realise there are around 32 million women in this country – living in their skin 24 hours a day. How many 1000’s of women do you think you would need to watch, for how many 1000’s of hours for your sample to become statistically relevant do you think?
I simply don't accept your version of events. Just because you assert something doesn't … @tonycollinet @emilynhoughton @EverydaySexism
— Secret Ledger (@secret_ledger) May 20, 2015
… make it true. You have no better evidence than I have from wandering around and trying… @tonycollinet @emilynhoughton @EverydaySexism
— Secret Ledger (@secret_ledger) May 20, 2015
Er, yes I do.
1 – 1000’s of women reporting it. You DO realise that women don’t lie any more than men do? So how do you conclude that all these people are lying liars?
2 – Let’s take project guardian. One city – one transport system in that city. One week. 16 people arrested for sexual offences. That is more than 2 every day – on ONE system in ONE city. And these are ONLY the arrestable offences for which sufficient evidence could be produced to identify the perp, and make an arrest. It doesn’t include the many more with no video coverage – or witnesses – or even more where the victims don’t even report because the behaviour is so normalised and expected. Then if there are this many serious sexual arrestable offences – how many more of the less serious cases of harassment must there be.
3 – According to the office of national statistics there are around 85000 people raped annually in the UK alone. (Around 9000 of these are men). That figure represents mans there are about 230 rapes every day – nearly 10 every hour. Again – how many more lesser crimes of sexual assault – and even more of harassment and intimidation must there be – every hour and every day in this country.
So yes, Mr SL. When a woman reports low level harassment. Or intimidation. Or Assault. Or Rape. #ibelieveher.
Because this stuff happens all the time. There is no need to invent it. And women are not lying liars.