In this world, being accused of a crime is supposedly as bad as or worse than being the victim of violence. Someone’s life will be “ruined” if a credible accusation makes the person lose any power to which they are entitled. And in this same world, where 82 percent of all juvenile sexual assault victims and 90 percent of adult rape victims are female and those in power still overwhelmingly male, this frame puts the lives and safety of over half our country at risk.
