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On the flip side, things like this[1] play out in severely rural areas. It always annoys me when people in rural areas paint a picture of how much "better" it i
by pyre 11y ago
On the flip side, things like this[1] play out in severely rural areas. It always annoys me when people in rural areas paint a picture of how much "better" it is to be living there.
[1]: https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/when-a-woman-is-raped-in-rural-alaska-does-anyone-care https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/when-a-woman-is-raped...
- Amezarak 11y agoThat story is not at all representative of the rural US in general. Rural Alaska is a very, very different place with a different population and a different culture where survival and resources are a real, daily concern. Most of the rural US has easy access to running water (parts of the West may be an exception) via a well, and real law enforcement is plentiful. Which is not to say county sheriffs aren't mostly crooked, but it's generally a genteel crookedness as opposed to "yeah rape is OK" crookedness.
- deelowe 11y agolol. Really? People really think this is common? I just don't know what to say. It's not like that at all. Look, generally speaking, people are decent and have morals. The vast majority do. Shocker I know, but it's true. Most people aren't racist, homophobe, rapist assholes. Doesn't matter where they live.
- DanBC 11y ago> People really think this is common? Rape and sexual violence are pretty common. You might want to find a trustworthy source of numbers. Here's one for England and Wales: http://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/bulletins/crimeinenglandandwales/yearendingdecember2015 http://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandj...
- deelowe 11y agoI was talking about it being significantly more common in rural areas.
- yuzi 11y agoSorry, but the parents post still has legs. Given a percentage of the population are in fact rapist assoholes and the fact that rural areas are naturally more private with more opportunity for occurrences, I will suggest there's good reason to believe there are very likely more occurrences of rapes that have a increased percentage of unreported incidents, which I will attribute to and increase in shame/fear (hard to be anonymous is a town of 600 people) and a lack of resources/convienance (multiple calls with no action and no rapekits on hand). Seriously, from age 16 to 30 all I dreamed about was getting away from the city and moving into a rural cabin. Then I did and learned the truth. These days I'd sooner gouge my eyeballs out with a spoon.