'Women Tend to Lie:' How Society Silences Rape Survivors

"That's messed up, I'm sorry. But it doesn't surprise me, because women tend to lie about it."

That was one friend’s reaction when I told him that Title IX investigators at my university had determined that the person I charged with rape was “not responsible.” I still read my friend’s sentence over and over. It haunts me. It hurts me. And it's not true.