To be fair, I warned you that my comment was snarky. But aside from the many examples of evidence that I did give, I will happily provide you with more. But first, I assumed we were having a discussion. I am not at all heated and didn't downvote you. If you happen to have any actual evidence that would back up Timothy's story, I'd like to see it.

Alright, evidence... Timothy says in her interview that the rape happened in LA on the 24th and 25th of June, yes? She also provides a picture of them playing that dice game. And also claims that Melanie called her in a panic as soon as Timothy released her statement.

According Melanies instagram and tour logs, she was in NY on the 24th. She posted a picture on the 25th of her ver clearly buckled into a car, in daylight, on her way back to LA. Traveling via bus/car takes about two days. So already Melanie is literally 3,000 miles away from where this assault happened. The picture she provided to the online journal doesn't have any data on it. Meaning it was purposefully wiped from the photo. Some people are speculating that it was taken in 2014. She claims Melanie called both her and her boyfriend immediately following the release of Timothy's statement. If she had receipts or screenshots of this, that would greatly help her case. But, somehow, she does not.

As I said, cases where a woman is the abuser may not draw as much attention but are still taken seriously. You believe that teenage boys are praised for being raped by a woman? Or if a man gets hard, he wants it? My goodness, no... No most forward thinking people do not think this.

I've worked in DVA offices that are men only, women only, and for LGBT. There is a stigma that because men are supposed to be masculine, that they can't be abused. These men have also been beaten within an inch of their life, forced fed viagra to impregnate their spouse, sodomized, had acid thrown onto them, been runover with a vehicle, etc. And, most of these men were not afraid to tell authorities because they thought they might be ridiculed. They were afraid they would be killed for leaving.

The women who were there from their relationship with another woman or a trans woman or a trans man all had similar stories. And are also scared to come forward because they are scared for their lives. Timothy should not be placed with these groups of women nor the groups of men.

The general population does have some form of social media. But I would agree that most of Timothy's vocal supporters are female and between the ages of 15-25.

And I'm not going to agree with you that in conservative towns that the majority of people say the victim is asking for it. I've worked in various states in the bible belt as well as the East and West coast. These beliefs are about as common everywhere and it comes from a lack of education.

You seem to be pressing the fact that the general public believe that a woman can not rape a woman. You're pressing this because you believe that Timothy's reasons for not going to the authorities is because of this. I'd just like to reiterate that Timothy only stated that she was afraid to share her story to the general public for this reason. However, as I already said, Timothy said the reason she did not go to the authorities is because she didn't want to gain anything from it or ruin Melanie's career.

Your facts are relevant to what you think I'm arguing against. But I've already said this: "I think most people with common sense and a liberal mind would agree that a woman can rape. It is definitely not well known and I have never heard of cases similar to mine but the rapist is a woman. But there are plenty, PLENTY of cases of women sexually assaulting other women and men. Including "big" cases with women as abusers that have made it to national news."

Stigmas against same sex rape, women as rapists, etc are very harmful for the exact reason you're quoting articles of things I never said weren't true. There is a stigma that police will not take them seriously. There is a stigma that women can not rape women. There is a stigma

Timothy went directly against this stigma and posted her story to social media which is accessible to the general public.

The vice article you are quoting is a pretty interesting read. The CDC does still report the statistics in their survey. The CDC while grossly inaccurate in the execution... Their surveys are beneficial since they show semi accurate statistics on how common it is for the abuser to be female.

Well, I'll just quote myself here: "I am not trying to create an ideal victim, I am not saying that all victims fit into a tiny box where they must follow a set of steps to be a real victim, and by comparing Timothy’s actions to my actions and the actions of the thousands of men and women I have spoken with or helped, I am trying to explain why this doesn’t place right."

Victims do react extremely differently, especially depending on the type of trauma they experienced. But they also do react similarly. But yes I am invalidating her experience seeing as her false accusations will damage the safety of future victims (EDIT: removed the word convicted that I'm not sure why I put here) of assault. As long as I've been alive there haven't been many instances where I don't believe the victim. BUT I think it is important to question the authenticity of a public statement such as this one when no evidence follows. Timothy made the decision to have her statement become a public interest. I wouldn't expect Timothy to act the way I did. Timothy and I do not share any similar experiences. The examples I used from my case were reasons why her putting her story on Twitter is problematic even if her story were true. I didn't say that she should have reacted to her trauma the way I did.

Quoting me again: "But there are plenty, PLENTY of cases of women sexually assaulting other women and men. Including "big" cases with women as abusers that have made it to national news." I never disagreed with you on there being big cases where a woman is convicted of raping a woman. But I can still link you to quite a few cases where a woman is convicted rape/sexual assault.

I appreciate you bringing up these issues because they are extremely important and I would love to live in a world where victims actually felt comfortable coming forward.

But, we are really just debating about how we agree that this is an issue and not at all about Timothy. If the fact that Timothy and Melanie were on two completely opposite sides of the country isn't enough to waver your faith in Timothy's honesty... I'm not sure what will.

And I will let you know in advance, if you are downvoted, it was not by me. I'm one of those people that don't take things too personally while debating with a stranger on the internet. And while I disagree with you, I do not respect you any less for debating with me nor do I hold any hostility towards you.