Women tell the truth

I've found some new statistics on false allegations of rape which I'll post here, continuing a series of past postings. Briefly, there is still no evidence that women frequently make false rape reports; there is some evidence that they do not.

Before I get onto the figures, though, I wanted to quote a little of this commentary from researcher David Lisak, published last year.

"When a room full of people feels the urgent need to shun and discard a rape victim, nothing makes it easier than adopting the belief that she made the whole thing up. The terrifying vulnerability that she represents is immediately dissolved because it never happened. And the victim can righteously be discarded because she is a liar.

Ironically, the failure to empathize with the rape victim, and the impulse to shun her, only make us all more vulnerable [because] the vast majority of rapes are perpetrated by serial offenders. Thus, when the participants in the criminal justice system collaborate in discarding a rape victim, they simultaneously increase the odds of future rapes."

From the BBC

"0725: Philip White, of the Citizens' Nuclear Information Center in Tokyo, tells the BBC he honours the courage of some 50 workers remaining in the nuclear plant, saying they are risking their lives by exposing themselves to what are conceivably very high doses of radiation."

Bloody hell. Arigatou gozaimasu, guys.

ETA: Last Defense at Troubled Reactors: 50 Japanese Workers

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I'm reading Christopher and his Kind and Beatrix Lehmann keeps popping up.