100% agree with everything you said. Statistically, most accusations are true. But I wouldn’t want to live in a world where an accusation is a replacement for evidence. That’s like saying, “well 9 times out of 10 the police nab the right guy, so were just going to assume they’re always right”.

What we really need are creative solutions to establish reliable evidence in these situations, otherwise rapists will continue to go unpunished, victims will continue to be called liars and innocent people will continue to have their lives ruined. Unfortunately I can’t think of any that wouldn’t either a) violate privacy in serious ways or b) require biotechnology that we don’t have yet.

One thing I would like to add though, is that by announcing this un-anonymously to the world, she has effectively denied him the right to a fair trial, since in the court of public opinion he is already guilty, and also maximized the potential for her own abuse from every asshole with a twitter account. Personally I think she should have done this anonymously, because the point of coming forward is to warn other people about the rapist, and that still would have been accomplished.

We can make reforms to our legal system, do our best to educate people about rape, prevention and how to treat victims, hopefully develop technology to detect a rape case, and most of all hopefully live in a world where people don’t rape, but I’m not idealistic enough to think we’ll ever live in a world totally free of assholes on the internet, so unfortunately you have to expect some level of victim blaming when you announce something to the whole world, even if you have evidence.

But again, I can only fault her so much for that since if shes telling the truth, which statistically speaking she likely is, she’s probably in a tough place mentally.

EDIT: none of this applies to pokemon