It’s all over the sensationalist news right now that this woman is getting charged with murder because she yelled rape when her husband caught her with her lover.  The husband shot and killed the lover. WOW. This is fucked for so many reasons, on so many levels. What the woman did was really, really wrong. But she told a lie.  Her lie was much smaller than the type top politicians tellevery day (ie–trillions of US dollars should go towards this war because we found evidence of weapons of mass destruction…). What her husband did was MURDER SOMEONE. He killed another human being and his rash, violent act is being pinned on her because she lied. Why is it that women are charged so harshly when they lie and kill (women get an average of 6 times the sentence men get for murder, that’s 12 years versus 2)  but there’s this societal concept that men “can’t help themselves?” When men commit acts of violence, it’s so much easier for the media to accept.  A tragedy took place, a human life was taken but it was not the wife that pulled the trigger.  I want these reporters to stop for one moment and notice–this is news because false rape claims are RARE.  They happen in 2% of cases which is the same percentage of false claims of theft.  I wish as women we could ban all women from making this false claim that’s so commonly called upon in rape trials.  But I wish even more that the much higher percentage of women who never report, would come forward.  But frankly, I understand why they don’t.

Here’s more of the tragic details: http://victimsover18.blogspot.com/2008/05/woman-whose-false-claims-of-rape-led.html