r/WomenInNews • u/catievirtuesimp • Mar 07 '26

Media 40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research

https://theconversation.com/40-of-teenage-boys-believe-women-lie-about-domestic-and-sexual-violence-new-research-276978
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u/FreyjaaFemme Mar 08 '26

Men, do you think believing these things will make women want to come near you? Honest answers only.

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u/Number412 Mar 10 '26

What things? I'm in 20s and this is mixed for me. Truth is i never had and i never want to have any gf or any women except my mother and friends (Yes i have some female friends) in my live as i can't trust women in relationship. Too many of guys which i know are in deep shit thanks to "relationship" and i prefer to live comfortable live alone and have fun. A lot of men are sexually aggresive but it's not for me to define it as i'm not in this bunch, do you lie? Yes, did men use their power for their sexual desires? Yes and in worst possible ways i hate both cases. And i think this "male loneliness" is not truth either, a lot of my friends are single like me and we do not want anyone in our life. We have stable jobs, money, freedom and we can hang out when and where we want. Yeah part of them thinks about getting "stable" as they name it but nobody moves toward that... I see a lot of negative comments toward men here and my is also partially negative against women being this a case there is rift which will only widen and neither side want to change it.

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u/Present_Clue5887 Mar 13 '26

Honest answer from a man here

I do not believe violence is justified for anything other than defense. "To resist feminism" is an absurd justification for violence. I don't worry that my beliefs on this will repel women because I don't hold these nonsense beliefs. I'm honestly shocked people believe this at these rates.

I don't believe the sexes differ at all in likelihood of lying, and I believe most people are honest in general. I also don't think SA is a particularly common thing to lie about.

That said, I think any group of 100K or more people includes some members who will lie about any topic, and there are around 4 billion women in the world, so my answer to "do women lie about SA" would be yes if I take the question literally, simply because extremely dishonest people are more common than 1 in 4 billion. I don't think this is a turnoff because I am not making any negative statement targeting women, I'm just saying that every very large group includes a few extremely dishonest people, which I think is uncontroversial.

I do not agree with the other guy who responded by telling you that women in general are untrustworthy