But, you ask, why the gap between those two set of statistics? Why the chasm between rates of truth-telling on the part of victims & survivors, and rates of conviction of rapists, especially considering that removing a rapist’s access to potential victims would go a long way towards preventing rape? Well, my dears, in that deep dark chasm lives rape culture, which is actually just our culture, in which we are constantly soaking. It is our culture, and unless we intentionally do otherwise, it is we who make that difference possible. So, if a woman says she was raped or assaulted by a man, it’s probably true. And if two women say they’ve been assaulted by that guy, it’s almost certainly true. And as three, four, five women say that he’s raped or assaulted them, the chance that he has not committed rape or assault quickly approaches zero.
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