Why Do We Have Such a High Rate of False Rape Accusations?

A false rape accusation, like a plain crash, is an objectively unusual event that occupies an outsized place in the public imagination. So why then does it carry its cultural charge? Let me pose that question right back to you. If false rape accusations are so rare, why is it that they generate so much attention and concern? I mean, what one really interesting data point is that many more men, bi like several orders of magnitude, are raped every year in the us than falsely accused of rape.