Ack I get it now. I watched a preview and oooohhh that was scary/dangerous/deadly. Seriously, that was deadly. People could have died there. People actually die here when they all get adventurous and end up being lost and cold in the wilderness, hence the DOC actually close certain tramping/hiking trails during certain seasons or if the weather is inclement. We are a land of extremes I must say. Ackkkk! I do hope they don't get turned off by that at any rate, since it is my wee wish to see a K-drama set in NZ (that would be really expensive to film though), and specifically somewhere set in the South Island not the North! (HEHE). (Well, it's a win-win either way, Korea gets promoted here and NZ gets promoted there. :) Hehe.)

In her statements she claimed to be a very good drinker so theirs no way it was just alcohol , she and her friends decided she had to have been drugged, she was drug tested literally the next day and everything was negative. The text messages and recorded phone calls that were released are mind blowing. The calmness and thoroughness of the plan is shocking. They even talk about his net worth so they know how much to demand in settlement money. They talk about releasing a story to the news first so he offers more money. Its just coldness. This is why real victims keep quiet and can't get justice, their afraid people won't believe them.

By her own text messages to her friend she wasn't too drunk, which is why they claimed she was drugged. The mutual friend carried her, which again doesn't mean she was too drunk to walk, it simply could have been a piggy back ride. None of us were there so we only have their statements obviously but from all her messages and phone calls and her own coconspirator admitting it, it seems completely staged.

"Does anyone who's just been raped do all of that?"

I'm not going to go over the details of the case as it's been several years and I'm not keen on rehashing old arguments.

I will say however, that this expectation on how exactly a rape victim is supposed to respond after their ordeal is one of the reasons why sexual assault survivors are reluctant to come forward - every bit of their behaviour before and after the crime is scrutinised to a truly microscopic degree in order to judge if they fit the idea of the so-called 'perfect' victim. It's partly why attrition rates for rape cases going through the criminal justice system is so high and cases that do get reported rarely result in convictions; even from the beginning police start their investigations from a place of doubt about the veracity of the accounts of rape. And there are so many factors people use to discount rape accusations, i.e. intoxication, no signs of struggle, not reporting the crime immediately, or as it seems here, not acting appropriately traumatised the morning after the alleged rape.
People react in different ways to cope and it's unwise to dismiss serious rape allegations on the basis of them not acting like 'people who've just been raped'.

P.S Statistically, false rape accusations are very rare, especially in comparison to the number of unreported rapes,yet it's unfortunate though, how quickly it's mentioned as a possibility whenever the topic of rape comes up.

Elianne. There have to be standards to ensure each party to the claim is treated fairly and impartially. And if a woman is doing and saying things that (affirmatively) contradict their claims of rape, then that needs to be considered.*

Both parties have to be accountable for their actions. Not just the man.

Justice should always be: innocent until proven guilty. These things are morally equivalent: Denying a woman's legitimate claim that she was raped. Accepting a woman's claim that she was raped, when in fact she wasn't.

A false rape charge leaves a man's life in tatters and unjustly gives him a lifelong stigma as a sexual offender. And the pain and life-upheaval that a falsely accused man suffers is no less legitimate than the pain and life upheaval suffered by a woman who's been raped.

*Caveat: Of course, none of this applies to women who could be physically harmed or killed if they reported a rape. Then silence and life-as-usual is likely the sensible immediate course of action until protective measures can be arranged.

"A false rape charge leaves a man's life in tatters and unjustly gives him a lifelong stigma as a sexual offender. And the pain and life-upheaval that a falsely accused man suffers is no less legitimate than the pain and life upheaval suffered by a woman who's been raped."

This is.. No this is not true at all. Yes, falsely accusing ANYONE of any crime, including rape, is a horrible thing to do. But rape victims have more then just the upheaval of their lives to deal with. It creates lasting mental and some have physical issues afterwards. Most rape victims experience Rape Trauma Syndrome. Comparing someone falsely accused (while horrible) to an actual rape victim shows a huge ignorance of how rape actually affects people.