Every time another story like this shows up in the news, it does make it easier to discount other stories of abuse and harassment, even if you know it's a problem and you want the system to change and create a safer workplace for everyone.

I'm sorry but that's absurd. For any sensible being when they keep hearing stories A of a certain bad thing happening BUT at the same time keep hearing stories(and this is not the first time I hear of a woman harassing a man and getting off lightly or using a fake "sexual harassment" report to get "even" with a man) that show some stories A being a lie - they will start doubting the next story A they hear, because that's how logic works. It's the same with other things like, say, fake allergies - the more people fake allergies just to avoid things they don't like, the more suspiciously/less seriously actual allergic people will be taken. The more people scream "wolf" without an actual wolf being in the vicinity, the less likely other people are to help someone who actually gets attacked by a real wolf, you know. Sucks people do this, it just makes everything worse for everyone. IMO a fake report like this should be a punishable crime.

Bottom line, sexual harassment/assault is horrible and needs to be taken very seriously. That being said, there should be proof. I can not find a more serious way to take something than to support it with evidence.

Magdalena, you are incorrect and I’ll explain why so you can twist out of it and deny being wrong anyway. Also the framework of what you consider logic is off. Here’s why: You don’t “keep” hearing stories like this. You have heard stories like this. By your own line of thinking anyway, there’s actually literal millions more stories of women reporting sexual harassment. So using your own mental framework, you’d care more about sexual harassment. But you don’t, and you should ask yourself why. Yes, false accusations are wrong. That has exactly nothing to do with my comment. My comment was just correcting the original post that claimed that liars make it hard for truth tellers. They do not. People who care about this issue will care whether or not there are some isolated incidents of liars.

No it doesn’t, 2 Wheel. It only makes it easier for people who never took it seriously to begin with. If you know it’s a problem, this story would have no effect on your beliefs.

Taxi Cabs, is there something that requires you to behave like gross trash towards people you don’t know, or is that just a personal choice? What kind of trash just throws around insults like that out of nowhere? I’m sure you don’t do that in real life. Why’d you give yourself a pass to do it online? Also, you made every single line of that up in your head. Quote where I said that. You can’t. Think about that.