[thoughtomator]

At this point I will never believe a claim of sexual assault, harassment, or rape without hard physical evidence is anything but an attempt at extortion and blackmail.

Ladies, I’m afraid you’ll have to behave in such a manner to protect yourselves from situations where it would be your word against a man’s if something happened, because not only will you not be believed, you will be suspected of making the claim for malicious ends.

Wish I could give an evenhanded benefit of the doubt, but this environment makes any other position than to assume every accusation is defamation an unreasonable one.

[John O]

Exactly correct.

Every accuser is making it up unless she has hard evidence (usually DNA removed from some place in her body) to support her case.

We’ve seen far too many false accusations to believe any other accusation isn’t also false.

[Sans-Culotte]

At this point I will never believe a claim of sexual assault, harassment, or rape without hard physical evidence is anything but an attempt at extortion and blackmail.

#me neither

[grania]

I don't think there's a reason to believe accusations from the past from this point forward. The "me too" movement has been going on for a few years now. Anyone who had an accusation about prior behavior that traumatized them should've announced it to the whole world by now. In my mind, that's a very big reason why the Kavanaugh accusers are not credible.

Let anything from now on be reported in a timely matter so DNA evidence is available and people's memories haven't been "refreshed" by others.