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I rejected a girl in college and she went around telling everyone she could that I sexually harassed her.
She got her comeuppance and got booted out of school after she did it to other guys too, but it was terrifying for that brief window when people believed her. I'd be eating lunch and random weirdos would come up to me and go 'I KNOW WHAT YOU DID YOU FUCKING CREEP!' Very few people supported me, and it was only my few closest friends, and my ex.
And even better, when I share that experience, at least 50% of the people who hear it, still think it is my fault or I'm lying. Because men are all rapists, and women are all hapless victims who never do anything bad or wrong...
That really is not ok, sorry bro. This happened to a friend of mine too, and I saw what that did to him. It's so much worse than people realize. He nearly got kicked out of school over it even.
What saved him was the same thing that saved you: she was stupid enough to make a pattern out of the behaviour. That said it didn't make it all better, because he no longer trusted the people who abandoned him. The social dynamics of that group never recovered.
I had a couple of people apologize to me after she was found out. That was cool. But most didn't.
People love to make up fake bullshit. I had another issue with this other woman... that I never ever even met who kept going around telling other people who I slept with her and how shit in bed I was. I literally never met her, but people told me about it. Maybe she had a crush or something. it was fucking weird.