# What's worse: being raped or being falsely accused of rape?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 26, 2015, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-worse-being-raped-or-being-falsely-accused-of-rape/713666 "2015-02-26T15:46:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-worse-being-raped-or-being-falsely-accused-of-rape/713666/16 "2015-02-26T17:20:59Z")

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> [@Clark\_Cello](#):
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> We are talking about two different things here, so really impossible to compare, and frankly, I don’t know why anyone would. I guess that someone could try to minimize someone’s experience of one, based on the other, but that would be a pretty stupid thing to do, so I don’t know if anyone would really do that.

LOL, quote from the other linked thread in the OP:

> [@What Happens When You're Falsely Accused of Rape](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-when-youre-falsely-accused-of-rape/713605/8):
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> Back to the OP…  
> …I’m not diminishing you as a victim of false accusation, but I don’t think being accused of rape is comparable to being raped.

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