I grew up in MT, and i now live in bozeman. i have had friends who have been raped, and a friend who was falsely accused of raping his ex girlfriend. having seen both sides of it, the actual rape victims deserve way more compassion. that is something that will haunt them for the rest of their lives, and many never fully recover mentally.
As far the accusation goes, it was fucked up, she got proven wrong, and my buddy decided to move away to avoid humiliation, but he is fine now. he knows that some dumb slut fucked him over, but he also knows that it was just a shitty bump in the road of his life. the memory will not disturb him forever, or fuck up his relationships with other women for the rest of his life. all these comments calling girls lying sluts are making you look like ignorant fucks. rape is fucked, and isn't funny at all, especially when its happening in your town, on your block, and outside your house.
Missoula has a much larger problem going on, and i dont know much about it. but Bozeman has also had a spike in rape/sexual assault, in the past few months an unidentified man has raped two girls on campus and is still at large. they have sketches of him up all over. before that, a man raped a girl and then fled out of town on a police chase, and shot himself in the head.
all in all, fuck rapists. it's just fucked up when you have to worry about your female friends going out to bars, goin home by themselves, and even walking home from class at night.
