
He never admitted to rape. Officially what he and his lawyers did admit to was paying off his accuser in 2009 in an out of court settlement to sign an NDA so that the claims wouldn't affect wouldn't affect his public image and branding. His name is valued at over a billion dollars but if those allegations would've made headlines he'd likely lose all his brand deals and sponsorships so they paid her to stay quiet, with not admitting guilt.
In 2019 during the criminal case, there wasn't enough evidence to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt since it took years for the allegations to be reported so he was never criminally charged, in 2022 during the civil law suit the judge found the accusers lawyers to be acting in bad faith and dismissed the charges. Unfortunately just going off what we know publicly, there isn't enough proof to know if he did it or not and due to his stardom there's a non zero chance of an attempt at blackmail
I’m down with believe all victims, but it gets to a point that you have to realize there’s a very realistic non zero chance that someone was just trying to take advantage. Like it’s very easy to be acquitted in criminal court if you throw enough money at the right lawyers but having even a civil trial thrown out means that he probably didn’t do it, since civil trials are like 100x easier for plaintiffs to win or at least get a settlement, neither of which happened
Omg same, it’s so fucking annoying when it happens. Like I get it, I’m a fat black guy with a patchy beard, but that doesn’t mean I’m automatically a creep. I literally can’t look anywhere other than my phone when I’m on break at work because this one girl will purposefully walk into my field of vision and then accuse me of staring at her. Like I literally can’t glance up even once to check the rotation schedule on the wall or she’ll blow up.
Like idk if she’s mad she was wrong when she falsely accused me the first time and I called her out for profiling me and filed a complaint myself, but it’s a different level of bitchy to actively place yourself in front of a person and then yell at them for looking at you if they look up from their phone even once. Like I can’t even watch the tv anymore because the charging station is right next to it and if she conveniently decides to charge her phone while I’m watching she’ll yell at me
Having had to have dealt with a few allegations of sexual misconduct, whenever there where false allegations it usually came from an ex or a hook up that got upset when things ended but those usually faded quick once tension died down. Anything actually egregious usually stemmed from a mix of poor communication skills, one person thinking the other was way more into them then they actually were and alcohol being involved, alcohol being the biggest factor.
And it's not just men that do it, women do it too. Just personally, I have very little memory of the night my ex and I first slept together. This was before we were dating and where just friends, I was in to her but I just kept it casual because she was very hot and cold about it and I thought it was more her friends trying to convince her we should date then it actually being her. Halloween night comes around and I'm throwing a huge party that I got blacked out drunk at.
I think she saw me talking to some other girl, she's drunk too and got a bit jealous and next thing I know one of my housemates is telling me she's in my office crying with one of her friends so I goto check up on her. We end up going to my room to talk but she starts insisting we should have sex so she can determine how she really feels about me, I try telling her we should wait till we're sober but then she started undressing and climbing on top of me.
Went to a small gathering, we drank (little enough that I still remember everything,) just played some board games and shared memes. At one point me and her laid on the floor but we weren’t even touching each other and that was the closest it got. Next day, that girl remembers nothing and so her friend who was at the party coerced her to accuse me of sexual assault. Found out later it was because the girl that coerced her friend had me as her “backup plan” in case her and her boyfriend broke up.
Say what you want, anyone that knows me irl knows that's far from the truth and I proactively work to curb actions that lead to rape. Mentored men in making responsible sexual decisions and have cut off / blacked balled dozens of friends who act reckless in how they treat women. But the details matter in these cases especially when you want to prevent it from happening to the next person.