how could she ever prevail in court if there are no witnesses? it seems to me that it boils down to he-said-she-said. while i agree she is credible, in theory anyone can charge anyone with anything if there are no witnesses and no physical evidence. do any of us (especially any of us men) really want that? as i have alluded before, the root of the issue is why a woman would accompany a man she scarcely knows into his hotel room alone. i could be wrong but maybe she is not yet taking legal action because she does not have a case that has a chance in court and so risks being branded as a vexatious litigant (or worse, if Fairfax digs into her sexual past in or out of discovery). (and she already is on record as having other allegedly involuntary sexual affairs with others, which if nothing else probably makes her more vulnerable to the sluts and nuts defense). i am not necessarily saying anyone is wrong but i can only agree with what i understand completely and so far my understanding is perhaps incomplete.
i write this with personal awareness of others who have had experiences similar to tyson’s and whose credibility i have no personal or other reason to challenge. however, my concern remains the same: why would any female voluntarily put themselves in an allegedly dangerous position with something to lose? it seems analogous to walking into a dark alley at night in a crime infested city alone without any protection. yes, nothing should happen. however, yes, sometimes bad things do happen in such circumstances. it seems prudent not to tempt fate in general. why should it be any different for women walking alone into a strange man’s hotel room? when i’ve tempted fate, i have sometimes learned the hard way that it is best to be prudent. i did not go around moping about it and then complaining in public decades later. if it were to take me that long to complain, then maybe i was not hurt that badly to begin with? and maybe i was partly at fault for putting myself voluntarily into some form of peril?
it seems to me that this sort of allegation imho exposes any cisgendered male who has been to college since roughly the mid 1960s (the era of the pill, the graduate and free love, if anyone is old enough to recall those watershed moments in american cultural history) to allegations of rape, even if he never actually entertained a female in his room in private or a female entertained him in her room in private. and this does not even count time under the bleachers or at a lover’s lane in an old jalopy while in high school. the possibilities seem virtually endless, and so is the potential for he-said-she-said and otherwise unfounded charges. if you think about it, it also to a lesser degree would expose women to analogous charges if life were fair (although last time i checked, life is not fair). it seems to me that you would be required to have to be permanently paralyzed from the neck down at age 11 to be immune from charges of this type. What am i missing?
She is the witness. Credibility is an issue for the finder of fact.
SEXIST HATER!!!
(G’RRRL POWER is usually a mix of White Knighting, female privilege, and “let’s you and him fight”.
Remember Kavanaugh? This is why you don’t “believe all women.”
Besides, women lie, even about the same incident, even over time, depending on social advantages and consequences, and their audience.