Falschbeschuldigungen bei sexueller Gewalt: "Frauen sollten endlich wütend werden"

Warum sind Verleumdungen im Zusammenhang mit sexueller Gewalt eigentlich nur ein Thema für die Männerbewegung? Warum nehmen Frauen es hin, dass die Verleumderinnen vor Gericht für ihre Taten kaum bestraft werden, sondern bestenfalls einen Klaps auf die Finger bekommen? Und warum tun Feministinnen wie Ilse Lenz so, als wären sie unfähig, selbst einfache Texte zu verstehen, sobald das Problem der Falschbeschuldigungen angesprochen wird? Das fragt sich Peter Lloyd im britischen Guardian anhand einiger aktueller Fälle (wobei er natürlich Ilse Lenz nicht explizit erwähnt, sondern britische Feministinnen mit einem ähnlichen Verhältnis zur Wahrheit). Lloyd beginnt seinen Artikel, indem er die sehr leichte gerichtliche Strafe für eine Verleumderin in einem aktuellen Fall anspricht:

But, in another gender-biased outcome for female offenders, Attridge was spared jail in favour of 200 hours unpaid community service. Something that's neither a fitting punishment, nor a deterrent.

Gender pay gap? Let's sort the gender sentencing gap too.

Even her ex-boyfriend, primary victim Nick Smith, said: "I think the sentence was ridiculous. I actually walked out of the court as soon as I heard it. I think the justice system has let us all down."

And he's right.

Because, although it's clear that men are the only victims in this particular case, Attridge has also betrayed the sisterhood.

Not only has she embarrassed her gender with her lies, but she has also made the process of convicting real rapists even harder for other women. Women who have already endured unimaginable pain. Girls who, sadly, will be subjected to the same horrors in the future.

And she's not the only one. In April last year, Kent's Kirsty Sowden - a former John Lewis shop assistant - cried rape over a fully consensual encounter with a man she'd met online. He was arrested at his workplace in front of colleagues and detained in a cell, wasting 376 hours of police time and costing £14,000.

In May 2012, 20 year-old Hanna Byron was spared jail after falsely accusing her ex-boyfriend of rape in revenge for breaking up with her.

In August, Sheffield's Emma Saxon made a second false rape allegation against her boyfriend, Martin Blood. He was held in police custody for 14 hours and subjected to an intrusive medical examination - all because he'd stood her up.

Southampton's Elizabeth Jones was finally jailed in February - but only after making her ELEVENTH false allegation.

Yet, despite this, not one person or rape charity has ever come forward and distanced themselves from such behaviour. Not one.

(...) I never see this with our country's feminists, which begs a very sad question: are women galvanising over gender, rather than justice?

Too many people assume that there is a party line when it comes to gender issues – that women must support each other, no matter what. But such misplaced loyalty is insane.

In our best-ever age of equality, women should not stand by somebody simply because they share matching XX chromosomes - if they're crying rape. They should be raging against them, like the crime of rape itself.

(...) Ironically, Attridge's sentence comes just days after a man was imprisoned for sending his son a birthday message via the same website which Attridge used to identify her victims. The very multi-million pound platform which now censors anything which may be deemed offensive to women, but doesn't extend the same courtesy to men and boys.

These inconsistencies, just like the inconsistencies in criminal sentencing, do the entire female population a disservice when they favour them.

Why? Because they make it about men Vs. women, rather than right Vs. wrong. And that's what so many people fail to recognise.

This is not the path to justice. In fact, when women fail to publicly criticise these liars, along with their unbelievably light sentences, they're not being objective or even ignorant - they're condoning them.