"I'm just disgusted that, you know, this is going on," Runfola said. "Dana is an employee [at Twitter] and is about to come into a large amount of money. ... This whole thing is about money."

The couple had been separated, he said, but were still having sexual relations. McCallum served her wife with divorce papers the day before the incident, Runfola said.

http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/transgender-womens-rights-advocate-and-prominent-twitter-engineer-charged-with-rape/Content?oid=2761316

I think that if someone studied this - I haven't, and actively don't want to - you could probably be more than 50% sure whether it's true or not.

But it's like gambling on a coin toss, where the coin is slightly but only slightly weighted in your favour, and where you win doughnuts if you get it right, and lose dollars - lots of dollars - if you don't: falsely accusing someone either of rape or of making a false accusation of rape are things I think one should go to great lengths to avoid; the possibility of making a true accusation does not make it worth while.

Society dictates we stand with the victim until proven otherwise. Anything short of that revictimizes the victim.

The nearest thing to "society dictates" is the dictum of "innocent until proven guilty", with the burden of proof squarely on the shoulders of the accuser (we don't know who the "victim" is, but we do know who the "accuser" is), so that claim is clearly completely false.

On the other hand, "innocent until proven guilty" is a legal doctrine; it doesn't mean that people accused of crimes actually *are* innocent, or even that citizens should necessarily treat them as such, just that the state should.

"We should treat anyone accused of rape as guilty until proven innocent" is a position I strongly disagree with, but it's not *factually* wrong. But "society dictates that we should treat anyone accused of rape as guilty until proven innocent" *is* not just factually wrong but a complete reversal of the nearest thing to an official stance society has on the issue.

And some good points.

Haven't you seen the statistics posted in so many other tape threads? Victims VERY rarely make false accusations. This case is almost certainly legitimate rape based on the statistics alone. Don't defend rapists here, whether the rapists are male or female.

I'm sort of at a loss. Scotch? Masking? Measuring? From scrap booking to home interiors to sewing, we little ladies of GD are waiting with bated breath.

Disgusting

Anything that happens in bad straight relationships is also going to happen in gay ones.

Good things happen in good straight and gay relationships.

The only things different in same sex marriages are the personal plumbing and the paychecks, two male paychecks going a lot farther than two female paychecks. Everything else is the same both good and bad.

Sounds like at least one of her children heard way more than just a quiet "no".

That poor child.