Anonymous tips lead to arrests all the time. If this were a sane world, the police would take these tips seriously and perform the proper investigative work which, since the rapes are vastly likely to have happened, would at the very least result in the arrest of these rapists.

Or a close to 90% chance that all of them are guilty. It doesn't matter, since you can just keep adding accused rapists until the chance of at least 1 of them being innocent is close to 100%. The chance of any given one of them being innocent is 2%. That's reason enough to arrest them in my book.

2% of rape accusations are false: http://www.ndaa.org/pdf/the_voice_…

Yes, I understand that the US criminal justice system is designed to shelter rapists. That's my point.

Given that there's only a 2% chance of any of those men being innocent, why haven't they been arrested yet?

If the causality goes the other way as you say, that would mean that people who don't like to date black women don't do so because they're buying into society's racist devaluation of black women as people. Which is, well, even more racist.

The problem with "they're just preferences! I'm not racist!" is that it's only a valid claim of non-racism if people's racial dating preferences were truly randomly distributed. Unfortunately, we know that race preferences in dating are highly highly correlated, and collectively the preferences of individual people…

Is it really important that the 4 women were white? Is that so people will know to care?

For my thinking to lead to "all heterosexual sex is rape" in the way you've described I would have to believe that a woman's desire for men is inherently unnatural and solely a product of patriarchal brainwashing, which I don't. As for false rape allegations, they're just not my concern. A world in which 100% of rape…

That you consider driving someone's car without permission to be comparable to violating a woman's body against her will says a lot about your mindset. Get this through your head: If you're trying to get a woman to have sex with you when she doesn't really want to, you are trying to rape her.

Of course not all heterosexual sex is rape. That's the kind of strawman MRAs regularly engage in. But just because she said "yes," doesn't mean it's not rape. If a woman considers a sexual encounter rape, that sexual act was by definition not entered into freely by the woman, and is rape, regardless of the…

Emotional manipulation and social pressure are two very common types of sexual coercion used by men. If a woman's decision to have sex was influenced by any factors other than attraction and the sex itself, it's coerced sex, and is therefore rape if the woman says it is (it's even rape sometimes when the woman says…

There needs to be a coercion clause in there. Yes doesn't always mean yes. This "nonverbal cues" exception Hess is arguing for is bullshit. Even enthusiastic affirmations can be invalid as consent if the coercion is severe enough, much less nonverbal cues.

This is why, whenever my wife snuggles up to me and tells me she feels safe in my arms, I like to remind her that, statistically speaking, I'm the most dangerous thing in her life.

Try this:

Looking forward to the racism in this thread.

"That train's never late!"

Holy fuck that's terrible. If this were a movie people would be complaining that the villain is too unrealistic and a ham-fisted allegory for western colonialism in Africa. Unbelievable.

If I were saying that the rape definitely happened, then you'd be right. That's not what I'm saying, though. I'm saying that we don't know, but we shouldn't discount the possibility that the rape happened, and we shouldn't be condemning this woman or using her as an example of a "false rape accusation", because women…

No such material evidence exists. She misremembered the date on which the rape took place. If there's impartial material evidence that she wasn't at that location, then yes, the rape didn't happen. That's not the case here.

If you went to the police and claimed I raped you, I would know it's false. But I would want the police to take that seriously and arrest me, and while I don't expect to be convicted (lack of evidence), I would want nothing bad to happen to you, no victim blaming, no questions, no suspicions of "false accusations,"…