> Being raped really sucks, yes,

> but being falsely accused of rape is even worse

Wow. Just wow. I'm pretty disgusted by this comment. Hopefully you've just phrased it badly, and can edit it to make it less like you're saying that men get a bum deal in India.

Thanks for confirming that rape is less important than a man's reputation :) Women know that already. That's why many don't report.

Having seen people report rape in the US, it is certainly not enough for anyone to be arrested immediately. There's the question of evidence, and whether anyone will look at the evidence, and whether the victim can be talked into ignoring it. In 2013 there were about 20,000 untested rape kits in Texas alone -- 20,000 crimes that were reported, where a woman had semen, hair, and other evidence collected through an invasive procedure, that were entirely ignored [1]. And that's only reported rapes. None of my friends who have been sexually assaulted have ever reported it (although these were all assaults by "friends", not strangers). They just wanted it to go away.

To top it off, in many locations in the US women still have to pay for their own evidence collection. If you haven't got the $600-$1200 it takes to pay for the exams yourself, you're out of luck on the prosecution front! (Yes, this is sort of illegal, but it's still happening [2].)

So rest easy -- come to the US where a woman's statement will probably be ignored for a long time [3].

[1] http://www.texastribune.org/2013/01/04/clearing-texas-rape-k... [2] http://www.nola.com/health/index.ssf/2014/09/state_leaders_p... [3] http://gawker.com/who-wants-to-remember-bill-cosbys-multiple...

No, I wouldn't say that had it 'just' been some reputation. As I already said an actual rapist should get the severest punishment imaginable, but I repeat, in a country like India, a man's (and his family's) entire life is ruined when he's falsely accused of rape. No one will befriend them, no one will lend them money, no one will marry even their siblings! I'm surprised that people here are so the unaware of the severity of a false accusation (may be just a cultural difference. In India it's a big social taboo). A girl falsely accusing (once proved to be false) a man of rape should get at least the same punishment in jail the man would have got had he been guilty.

I'm sorry for the state of affairs in the US about the claimed report ratio of the crime - however, a mere statement of anyone, by itself should never lead to an arrest, be it a man or a woman, because in a lot of cases there are ulterior motives in play.

Oh seriously. That's enough.

Post some examples of all these men's lives that have been ruined. Let's see whether these examples are, actually, worse than having been raped.

Keep an open, balanced mind, and learn to see things from both sides (this is not facebook). Rapes are as real as false cases. I'm not sure what are your criteria for deciding 'worse'. Mine is, more lives are ruined in a false rape case. As I said, anyone in contacts with police knows that. If you still don't want to believe, you can be happy assuming you got an 'online victory'. Many men have committed suicide due to that as well. Isn't that at least equally bad?

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/indore/Woman-sentenc...

If you search online, you'd find that there are many, many cases where an Indian girl elopes/lives with a man on free will, has consensual sex but after a few days, months, or even years files a rape case for various obvious reasons, surprisingly often when forced by parents.

You wouldn't 'like' to believe, but Pune police once said 74% of rape cases reported to them were consentual sex later turned rape. In fact Mumbai police says the main reason of the low conviction rate is false rape cases.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Rape-convicti...

https://www.facebook.com/notes/deepika-narayan-bhardwaj/fals...

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ranchi/Lured-by-comp...

And a lot, lot more, just help yourselves with some Googling.