"Many women make false allegations for sympathy, revenge or financial gain"..?

Question

What do you think of that statement?

Needless to say it was a self-confirmed anti-feminist who said it..

Answer 1

You might as well throw men in there too, but that goes without saying.

I think its truer than most would suspect...

Women are smarter than men, generally, and they know not to lie unless they can get away with it... Many are the poor bastards who got a bum wrap from a lying woman, and had no way to prove their innocence,(in this isolated case, since he's a bastard anyway,) and few that would believe them because most of them had probably already been caught before in a lie themselves. Who would you believe? The always exaggerating guy? Or the woman that never lies (that you know of?)

Answer 2

I think it would make more sense if it read "Some women and some men make false allegations for sympathy, revenge or financial gain"

Answer 3

I think that statement is inaccurate and damaging because it creates negative stereotyping. Also, many women do NOT make false allegations for sympathy, revenge, or financial gain.

That statement is similar to "many people with brown eyes make false allegations for sympathy, revenge, or financial gain." Does that make sense?

People have to be careful anytime they use words like many, all, most, etc... and apply it to half of the population.
The people who do not fit into these negative categories will resent being judged based on ignorance.

Answer 4

I haven't met anyone who made a single allegation even though I've met women who were molested by each of these people when they were a child:
Their father, their grandfather, a family friend, a step-brother, and a cousin.

I've also met women who never made a single allegation even though they had been raped by:
a boyfriend and his friend, a friend and his 5 friends, a friend of a friend, a date, and an acquaintance.

There probably are a few sick women who have made false allegations for a number of reasons, but there are few raped and molested men and women who actually make any allegations, even less of the allegations get to trial, and even less rapists and child molesters are punished for their numerous crimes.

Answer 5

Many Fathers Rights groups claim women make false allegations of domestic violence and rape. NO credible research backs this up. I was just researching child abuse...0.1% i believe were false allegations. In divorce, the rate is also low and both males & females make these allegations. Battered women are often accused of being vindictive ---and judges believe it ---because of crap steretypes like this. (imagine the impact then of this so-called harmless stereotype - battered women losing custody of their children to the batterer - google it & you will find the research). It's disgusting.

Answer 6

It's a shame that there are people out there, men and women, who make false allegations against someone. They need to realize that what goes around, comes around.

Answer 7

I think a woman made that allegation in order to capitalize on their victim image and to smear the stereotype of anti-feminists. Obviously it's implying that anti-feminists are fools who generalize and victimize.

Hahaha.........


everyone's a victim when people take sides... why can't we all just get along and make love?

Answer 8

The person that said that has proved himself to be a misogynist time and again.

So, what do I think about it? I think it sounds like something a guy who hates women would say.

Answer 9

It seems to me that many men must seek out screwed-up women who do make these false alligations so (these men) might (via self-fufilling prophesy) confirm their warped view of women.

Answer 10

Not many women, in fact almost not at all. But among the ones who make false allegations, almost all of them do them for this reasons.
Rio: ONE false rape accusation is excessive.

Answer 11

depends on how you define many. But I'm sure lots of women do. Just as a lot of men do. No big surprise here.