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Originally Posted by #1-wwf-fan
How are you not seeing the contradiction in using "Women tend to not lie about rape" as a meaningful point while also dismissing "This woman definitely lies about rape" as insignificant?
If the first is significant, then you'd have to do some crazy rationalization to claim the latter isn't. It's either that or neither is significant.
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Lies and lied are two different tenses. If you're suggesting that because she lied about it once she must be again, that's false. If you're suggesting she lied about it once, therefore she has no moral qualms doing it, then it's a stronger point and problematic, but it doesn't do anything to dismiss the severity of a separate incident.
You all took The Boy Who Cried Wolf way too seriously. You do remember there was an actual wolf at the end, right? The moral is to not tell lies so people believe you, but it's also there to give us the wider perspective too, in that there might actually be a wolf.