For men (real men not girly men): Is it our duty to make sure the Duke rape case never gets forgotten?

Question

http://mensnewsdaily.com/2007/12/27/winners-of-the-coveted-2007-award-for-political-incorrectness/

Answer 1

Of course it is, I wonder it took so long that a case of false rape accusation gained notoriety. Maybe America should rethink its juridical system. If its eithier too harsh to ensure all dangerous people are locked up, with innocents doing time sometimes, or too lenient with the guilty going free sometimes because the state wont lock up people unless there are no doubts about their guilt, like in Germany for example, at least it errs on one side of the equation, but in America sometimes the guilty go free and sometimes the innocent do time, like it almost happend in the duke case and did happen in the Mary Winkler case, making out of the system basically a lottery.
Got rape ? Why not safe yourselfs a lot of tax money and flip a coin to determine if the accused does time or not ?

Answer 2

Sorry for the length of this. It's my blog from March 13, 2007. It speaks for itself: Who is Mike Pressler? Bet you don’t know. But exactly one year ago today his name was being discussed all over America. Mike Pressler was the coach of the Duke lacrosse team. Mike had always told people that he had the best job in the world. He loved lacrosse and he loved Duke University. He arrived at Duke in 1990 and over the next 16 years he compiled a 153-82 record with 3 ACC championships, 10 NCAA tournament berths and had brought his team to the 2005 Division I men’s lacrosse championship game. He might have won the championship last year. Mike was at the peak of his career…22 years of coaching and he and his family were finally at the top. Then, on March 13, 2006 the wheels came off. Members of his team were accused of a heinous crime. What turned out to be false accusations were never given a chance to be found false. The accused were deemed to be spoiled, rich, white boys who savaged an innocent young woman because she was poor and black. Guilt was presumed and immediate retribution was demanded. The response was quick, vicious and VERY public. The District Attorney was outraged (and he called a news conference). Women’s groups were outraged. Duke president Richard Broadhead was outraged. Jesse Jackson was outraged and said that his Rainbow Coalition would pay for the college education of the poor victim. Press releases including photos of the accused were everywhere. And of course the media would not relent. The lacrosse season was cancelled. The swiftly identified perpetrators were suspended from school and forced to hire attorneys. And oh yeah…Mike Pressler “resigned” after a meeting with president Broadhead. (Surely their coach was responsible too). And so Mike’s reputation, his career and his life’s ambition was summarily dismissed in a self-righteous wave of indignation and presumed guilt. Now it’s a year later and there is this one maddening little detail. Apparently, it didn’t happen. Apparently the accuser was lying and has since admitted that no such rape occurred. Apparently, D.A. Mike Nifong was trying to bolster his bid for reelection. Apparently Nifong violated legal ethics and prosecutorial guidelines. He was removed from the case. He may yet be disbarred. The other day, Duke far more quietly reinstated the students and the lacrosse team, without apology to anyone. Let the healing begin. But they couldn’t put Mike Pressler’s life back together. He’s now the lacrosse coach at Division II Bryant University in Rhode Island. Never heard of them? It’s a place where someone starts trying to reassemble the pieces of a shattered life. All the best to Mike Pressler…hopefully he’ll succeed. As for the rest of us, have we learned anything? Carpe Diem!

Answer 3

Actually it works both ways:

Men are being screwed by false rape accusations, and the real rapists of women are not being punished.

First of all, the problem is the law: there is a failure to acknowlege that rape has grades: the brutal sudden kind by a stranger, date rape, someone using a little too much force in the act (which even spouses can do unawares), and a man continuing when a women tells him to withdraw in the middle of the act (which is an evil trick if a woman does that deliberately)|

Now treating all those levels the same way makes rendering justice in the situation practically impossible, and justice will only be rendered if those distinctions are properly made in our courts of law||

Because judges and lawyers alike now seek acquitals and convictions according to their adgendas and not according to objective justice, it is no wonder people have trouble respecting the processes of the law||



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Answer 4

It should be pointed out that these young men weren't entirely innoncent. They did, after all, hire strippers for their party and also engaged in underage drinking.. When people drink, of course things are going to get out of hand. I don't know for sure exactly how much actually went on but these men are not martyrs and shouldn't be treated as such. This is a wrong case for your particular cause.

Answer 5

I think it's all women's job too

Answer 6

yes

Answer 7

It's up to everyone to make sure it's never forgotten. False rape claims harm women just as much as they harm men.

Answer 8

You'll grow to be a better man if you accept your duty not to forget ANY rape case.

Answer 9

Everyone will remember it. She did a disservice to both men and women. Now rape accusations will always be called into question.

Answer 10

Yes.

It is imperative that men not forget. There are 1000s of false allegations every year in The Feminist Republic of America.

This nonsense must stop! Feminists are to blame!