In 2014 Janet Bloomfield wrote a piece for A Voice for Men titled 13 reasons women lie about rape. It’s been featured on the J4MB side column from that day to this, and will remain there indefinitely. It’s mentioned on my Wikipedia page – created by “The Vintage Feminist” many years ago – with references to it in an article in the Guardian (2016) and an article in the Telegraph (2017).

Janet’s article came to mind after I published a piece earlier today, IRELAND: ‘I know what happened in that room’: the full story of the Conor McGregor case. If Nikita Hand made false rape allegations against Conor McGregor, which I believe to be likely – the Irish DPP, a woman, ruled there was “no reasonable prospect” of conviction in a criminal court – what might have been her motivation(s), other than financial ones? From the Irish Times article:

“When Hand got to her home in the early hours on Monday December 10th, 2018, [J4MB: the morning after the alleged rape] she told her then partner Steve she had been raped. He made a 38-minute secret recording of their conversation. In it, a tearful Ms Hand said she was raped and repeatedly said she cannot say who by. When Steve urged her to tell him and said nothing is going to happen, she said: “It is, it is, he says he will kill me.”

At one point, Steve said: “This shit doesn’t happen any more, it’s not a case of just shutting up and saying nothing. This thing of keeping quiet is not all right.” “

Extracts from Janet Bloomfield’s article on the 13 reasons women lie about rape:

1. Women lie about rape to cover up their infidelity.

One night, Nicola Osborne got a bit drunk and ended up in bed with a man and they enjoyed “extensive sexual activity.” The episode was entirely consensual and the two swapped phone numbers after they were through. On the way home, it occurred to Osborne that her husband might not think very highly of her “activities” and she became flustered and visibly upset. When passers-by came to her aid, she told them that she had been forcibly abducted and raped by a stranger, sparking a massive police response to find the rapist. A subsequent DNA test led police to the man whom she had slept with and he was arrested and held for 12 hours. Once the truth came out that the encounter has been consensual, Osborne was charged with filing a false report and sentenced to 18 months in prison.  Women lie about rape to cover up their infidelity.

4. Women lie about rape because they feel guilty.

Kelly Harwood had a few drinks and decided that sleeping with her friend’s son was a good idea. Upon reflection, she decided that she had betrayed her friend by doing so and reported her friend’s son for rape. She told police that she had been raped while sleeping, and her friend’s son was subjected to an “intrusive medical examination and interviewed under caution.” Two days later, Harwood relented and admitted that she had lied about the rape. She suffers from depressive illness, exacerbated by the amount of alcohol she had consumed. Women lie about rape because they feel guilty.

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