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I don't see how you arrive at the statistic of "one in five american women experiencing a rape" from 28 rapes per hundred thousand people. Even if we considered
by gommm 15y ago
I don't see how you arrive at the statistic of "one in five american women experiencing a rape" from 28 rapes per hundred thousand people. Even if we considered that only women were victim of rapes and that half of the incidents weren't reported, it would still amount to something like 112 rapes/100k so around 0.1%.
Anecdotically, none of my female friends were ever raped which doesn't match with your assertion that "one in five American women experiences a rape".
I do think that our culture tends to objectifying women in the medias but I don't think that rape and sexual assault is as prevalent as many people think it is... There's also a lot of paranoia due to the media looking for good sensational stories and latching on any sexual assault story they can find.
- Anechoic 15y agoAnecdotically, none of my female friends were ever raped So far as you know.
- Duff 15y agoIncidence varies by community and definition. Sexual assaults are very common on college campuses. The stereotypical scary guy with pantyhose pulled over his head is only one manifestation of rape. "Date-rape" and taking advantage of people not capable of giving consent (drunk, drugged, etc) happens all of the time.
- burgerbrain 15y ago"taking advantage of people not capable of giving consent (drunk, drugged, etc) happens all of the time." Men are also victims of that.
- iy56 15y agoThe x/100000 is per year. The 1/5 number is over a woman's lifetime. Still seems fishy to me, though.
- saulrh 15y agoI didn't go from one to the other; I should have made that more clear. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_in_the_United_States#Rape_statistics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_in_the_United_States#Rape_...