The two aren’t mutually exclusive. “Believe Women,” in this case is more about not brushing women off and actually looking into what they’re saying.
Although this specific instance is a poor example because she herself admits that her mental health was in a state where it being in her head was more likely than a homeless man living in her loft.
It’s never meant, “implicitly believe everything a woman says without evidence.”
Without any evidence, it is more likely for someone claiming they’ve been raped to be saying the truth, rather than to be humiliating themselves for a fake accusation.
You should believe rape victims (and not just women) whether there is evidence or not, because the way the world is right now makes it very unlikely for someone to make a fake accusation, while making it extremely hard for someone to legally prove that they’ve been raped. If someone is saying that they’ve been raped, in all likelihood they have been.
Everytime you decide to “first look at the evidence”, you pick the side of an unfair system. You should implicitly believe a rape victim, and then you can think about the evidence at your leisure.
Also, your strawman of changing “believe rape victims” into “believe everything a woman says without evidence” is a bit of a red flag. Might not have been intentional, so I’m telling you just in case.
But then everyone screams “innocent until proven guilty”
The two aren’t mutually exclusive. “Believe Women,” in this case is more about not brushing women off and actually looking into what they’re saying.
Although this specific instance is a poor example because she herself admits that her mental health was in a state where it being in her head was more likely than a homeless man living in her loft.
It’s never meant, “implicitly believe everything a woman says without evidence.”
Without any evidence, it is more likely for someone claiming they’ve been raped to be saying the truth, rather than to be humiliating themselves for a fake accusation.
You should believe rape victims (and not just women) whether there is evidence or not, because the way the world is right now makes it very unlikely for someone to make a fake accusation, while making it extremely hard for someone to legally prove that they’ve been raped. If someone is saying that they’ve been raped, in all likelihood they have been.
Everytime you decide to “first look at the evidence”, you pick the side of an unfair system. You should implicitly believe a rape victim, and then you can think about the evidence at your leisure.
Also, your strawman of changing “believe rape victims” into “believe everything a woman says without evidence” is a bit of a red flag. Might not have been intentional, so I’m telling you just in case.