Content Warning: This article contains descriptions of rape and violence and might be upsetting for some readers.
This article contains spoilers for the Netflix show Unbelievable, which is based on a true story.
Anyone who has watched Netflix’s Unbelievable will tell you, the true story is hard to watch.
Based paragraph by paragraph on T. Christian Miler and Kem Armstrong’s Pulitzer Prize-winning article, An Unbelievable Story of Rape, the eight-part TV series follows two female detectives as they hunt down a serial rapist terrorising women by crossing age, race and state borders.
The story begins in 2008 when an 18-year-old woman named Marie Adler (in real life, we don’t know Marie’s first or last name; Marie is her middle name) played by Kaitlyn Dever calls the police and tells them she has been raped.
You can watch the trailer for Unbelievable below. Post continues after video.
The young Washington woman tells police a man broke into her home, snuck quietly into her bedroom during the night, blindfolded her and raped her at knifepoint for hours on end.
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In my opinion the foster mother should've been held to account as well. The police didn't start doubting Marie until the foster mother took it upon herself to visit them and say a bunch of unhelpful crap.
I see the concept of people always being believed if they were robbed a lot, but it's just not true. Like all accusations of crime it should be taken seriously, though.
Look into the 'belief in a just world' concept and you'll find examples of people victim blaming / not believing for just about everything.
Yes, but it happens to rape victims more often than other victims of crime, both male and female victims. I mean, there are whole studies done on this, complete with evidence, so some research would serve you well.
I'm not denying that. The title of the article is 'No one ever accuses a robbery victim of lying', we've both just agreed that that statement is wrong.
Or are you just trying to move the goal posts again?
I haven't researched that simply because it doesn't have anything to do with my statement.
But if you are willing to give me some of that evidence i'd be happy to read it.
This is apparent, too, when you look at reporting. If someone is robbed, they generally don't have any hesitation in call police and expecting to be believed. But sexual assault victims often wait or do not call at all, for fear of being victim blamed or not believed. Some people never tell anyone. You just don't see that with other sorts of crimes.
How do you know how many people don't report robberies, etc?
But yes, it is definitely the crimes against the person that go under reported, rather than crimes against possessions.
Again, nothing I've ever said has contradicted that.