Accusations of crimes should be investigated
And what would be the very first step in that investigatory process?
You go to your police station and tell an officer that you were just mugged by Jerry Lewis. Now, since Jerry Lewis is dead, what must the officer do--mentally--in order to investigate your crime? He must....come on....you can type it....provisionally believe that
something happened to you to make you think that you were just mugged by Jerry Lewis.
Iow, he must provisionally believe (1) that something traumatic did in fact happen to you and that, (2) at least
you believe you were mugged by Jerry Lewis.
What the cop believes
actually may have happened--that, more likely it was someone who looked like Jerry Lewis or that you were so traumatized by the incident that you mistakenly thought it was Jerry Lewis, etc.--is a separate issue, unless and until upon hearing you say it was "Jerry Lewis" he did
not provisionally believe you for the sake of investigation. He instead dismissed you out of hand--and called you a "nutso"--and told you to get out of the station, "we have more important things to do" etc.
THAT is the issue the "believe women" movement is trying to address; the fact that all too often women (and men) who were raped can't even get beyond the very first step in the investigative process, because the cops dismiss their accusations
a priori. Iow, they do not believe the story being told to them and do not move forward with an investigation to actually find out the truth one way or the other.
Yes, it is.
Saying that women should be believed automatically goes much further than that.
No, it actually doesn't, you just evidently don't comprehend the concept of provisional beliefs. As your own source illustrates:
We should believe, as a matter of default, what an accuser says. Ultimately, the costs of wrongly disbelieving a survivor far outweigh the costs of calling someone a rapist. Even if Jackie fabricated her account, U-Va. should have taken her word for it during the period while they endeavored to prove or disprove the accusation.
I'll repeat the salient part you evidently missed:
during the period while they endeavored to prove or disprove the accusation.
Or, to put it more bluntly, women's fault that men rape so they should stop wearing certain clothing or not go out at night etc., etc., etc.
That is a cliche
That is not a counter argument.