🧩 BND Motif Index · M672
Potiphar's wife
A woman's accusation of sexual assault is said to be invented, out of spite, regret, or revenge for a slight, and the timing of her story or the changes in it are offered as proof she is lying, or even that she was the real aggressor.
📜 Plots🗂️ Bad faith🗂️ Gendered Accusation Narratives🗂️ Sex and gender🗂️ Abuse and silence
- 10claims filed under it
- 4right shows it came up on
- 1claim retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🪜 rests on 🧩 He said, she said
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Blame the victim 🧩 Campus sexual assault 🧩 Secretly flattered 🧩 Too drunk to consent
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 0
🦗 none of our left shows, so far
⚖️ center 0
🦗 none of our center shows, so far
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 Cornell accuser faces threats and swatting 2026-10-08 to 2026-10-11
- 📰 NY attorney General faces bar ethics complaint over Cornell 7 case 2026-10-02 to 2026-10-11
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-15 “Colleges push degrading sex on students, then back women who change their minds about consent.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton - 2026-10-13 “The Cornell 7 accuser is said to have called it, in her own word, a consensual gangbang, so her assault claim is doubted.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton - 2026-10-12 “The case involving the woman at Cornell University appears to be a false accusation or a flimsy case.”
🎙️ The Jesse Kelly Show - 2026-10-09 “The allegations in the Cornell sexual assault case are contradicted by evidence suggesting the accuser was the aggressor.”
🎙️ Louder with Crowder - 2026-10-08 “The Cornell accuser's story is said to keep changing, enough to doubt everything she says, and one of the accused now says she was the one who assaulted him.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton - 2026-10-08 “The woman's sorority may have pressured the fraternity to cut her off to protect their own reputation.”
🎙️ The Matt Walsh Show - 2026-10-08 “The accuser's shift in narrative occurred primarily after she was disinvited from a fraternity party.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton - 2026-10-08 “The "Cornell 7" rape case is a witch hunt: the evidence shows the sex was consensual, and innocent men are being smeared.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-05 “The Cornell accuser is said to have decided she was assaulted only after she was disinvited from a Halloween party and came to regret her choices.”
🎙️ The Matt Walsh Show - 2026-10-05 “The Cornell case is said to be no crime at all: she consented, the accusations are defamatory, and appointing Letitia James only makes it political.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton
M672 · first seen 2026-10-09 · last 2026-10-15 · what this is · how the index works