“I don’t understand why women don’t just report it if it really happened.” When I was 19, I reported mine. I had bruises. Hospital photos. Text messages of him apologizing the next morning. My friends drove me to the station because I could barely stop shaking. I thought evidence would make it simple. I thought truth would be enough. Months later, I was the one on trial. His lawyer printed my Instagram photos and held them up in court. Asked why I wore crop tops. Asked why I drank that night. Asked why I didn’t scream louder. He replayed my police interview and pointed out every time I hesitated, every time I cried, every time my timeline wasn’t perfectly linear. “If it was traumatic,” he said, “why can’t she remember clearly?” Sitting there while strangers debated my pain like it was a group project felt like being stripped again. My messages were projected on a screen. My body was described in detail. My character was picked apart like that was the real crime. He walked out on bail. I walked out with panic attacks. That’s why some women don’t report. Because even with bruises. Even with screenshots. Even when you do everything “right.” You still have to survive the assault twice, once in private, and once in public, just to maybe be believed.

@xevekiah This shit has never in the history of justice ever happened 😭🤦🏽‍♂️ men been going to prison for false accusations n allegations with no proof wat so ever for decades but u had EVIDENCE n nothing happened cut it out

@MuuTalib @xevekiah Men just have to be evil at heart. How do you read this and immediately go to calling it fake. That’s insane

@Sincerlyrose @xevekiah Cause I’m not sum twitter dicchead u can easily look up statistics n see that all a women has to do is implicate a man raped her n he’s getting booked miss me wit that dweeb shit gang

@MuuTalib @Sincerlyrose @xevekiah there are cases in china and japan, where there is absolute evidence no rape occurred, and they are still thrown in prison.

@AutomationCode @MuuTalib @xevekiah Ok and there are cases here where there is evidence, the men don’t get jailed, and then kill the woman

@Sincerlyrose @AutomationCode @xevekiah Show me sum examples n I’ll show u cases where women lied men were jailed only to be proven innocent n the women faced literally no consequences wat so ever Go on take ya time ill wait for u

@MuuTalib @AutomationCode @xevekiah I’m not saying it doesn’t happen to men. It happened to a man I know, but 2 things can also be true at once. Some men are falsely accused and thrown in prison but some women also have gone to the police and their abusers have not been charged

@Sincerlyrose @MuuTalib @xevekiah If you want women to be believed, then society must prosecute liars. the whole aspect of "testimony" and "under penalty of perjury" is that there is a real penalty for lying. but women more often than not are allowed to lie. If there is de fact, no penalty, there is no testimony.

@AutomationCode @MuuTalib @xevekiah There should be a way to persecute liars, but that doesn’t mean “don’t believe any woman all because some lie”