primary virtues. At the beginning of the last century, only those male individuals of white,

Anglo-Saxon heritage were given full rights as citizens, with everyone else being cast to the

wayside. Slowly, with the passing of each year, more and more individuals were allowed to bask

in the benefits that Canadian citizenship had, and continues to offer. Nowadays, discrimination

on the basis of race, religion, and most importantly sex are strictly prohibited by both law and

frowned upon by social customs. But is this really the case? Proportionally, men are vastly more

likely to be wrongly convicted of sexual assault than women. This clearly contravenes all that

our nation stands for. Through the use of specific cases, the bias in sexual assault cases against

men will clearly be established in the following paragraphs.

Society today has fallen under the wrong impression that all men think about nothing

but sex, and that all men are potential sex offenders and predators. The history of sexual

offenses committed almost entirely by men has led to a misconception of this complex crime.

onto the bed. She went on to say that she went into “shock” after she felt his weight on top of

alternative that he had an honest but mistaken belief that she was consenting. The trial judge,

We all have heard of cases such as the above. A woman has sex with a man, and

more likely to have committed the crime than a woman is to lie in court. As modern evidences

be guilty. Society deems it impossible that a woman could lie about such an embarrassing and

general mindset and attitude of the court system towards men that have been accused of the

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