I dont believe a lot of these accusations

It’s definitely both.

It’s definitely both.

It's a minefield. I'm sure there are women who lie about rape in the hope of financial gain. I'm also certain that there are other women who engage in consensual sexual activity, regret it after the fact, can't reconcile what they've done with the person they want to believe themselves to be, and decide that the only way it could have happened was if they were manipulated and coerced.

People can be attention-seeking, avaricious, self-deluded and very confused about who they really are. Problems often arise from situations where our lizard-brain takes over and leads us to do things which conflict with what the part of our brain that puts a premium on always behaving in ways that are in accordance with our social conditioning. It's human nature to try to place all responsibility for our 'bad' actions on someone else.

Women are people, so it's inevitable that some of the accusations that have been made against men are baseless, and others are impossible to prove either way when the only evidence is the biased recollections of the two people involved, sometimes many years after the event.

Having said all that, it has always been the case that many men who rise to positions of power will abuse that power and use it to gain sexual gratification. Few people who end up being able to influence and control others get there by accident. It requires a certain driven, focused mindset to reach a powerful position in business or politics, and studies have found that such people are often psychopaths or at least have strong psychopathic traits. Part of the psychopathic personality is being able to present a glossy, friendly surface to the world, while secretly always seeing other people as merely instruments to be manipulated and used. Another very common feature of psychopathy is a strong sex drive. Combine those facts with the recent change in social climate about what's acceptable and what isn't, and it's not surprising that a huge number of allegations about powerful men have recently come to light.

Come on, you don't think that at least one of these accusations hold some validity to them? Accusations of false rape are from 2% to 10%. On average their are about 433,648 (age 12 or older) victims of rape each year in the US according to Rainn.org. The likely hood of at least one of these accusers telling the truth is so high that I'm sure Cuomo will be apprehended in some way.

I even have my doubts on the harvey weinstein crap. It sounds like some of those girls screwed him to further their career then decided to stab him in the back for those sweet victim points when other girls came out. It was definitely inappropriate to use your boss status for sex. But if the girls deliberately engaged in sex with him to help their own career thats a decision they made and thats not really rape.