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> doesn't mention the accidents, assaults, and rapes, which trace directly back to drunkenness. What a bizarre assertion. The number of "accidents, assaults, a
by rendall 4y ago
> doesn't mention the accidents, assaults, and rapes, which trace directly back to drunkenness.
What a bizarre assertion. The number of "accidents, assaults, and rapes" across the entire continent can each be counted on one hand. It's one of the safest places in the world.
- feet 4y agoWhat is the rate per capita? How does that rate compare to other places?
- eldaisfish 4y agoBe careful before relying on data, particularly data for crimes like rape. Incidents are often not reported and going solely off data, one would conclude that regions like India and sub saharan africa are safer for women than places like Sweden and the USA.
- nnchkvfh 4y agoWhat else is there to rely on, if not data? "Lived experience" is just allegations without proof, and in aggregate it's data. Anecdotes? The word of activists that insist that a fifth of men are rapists? It's fine to say the data isn't reliable, but unreliable data about sexual assault in general isn't reason enough to conclude that McMurdo is a place overrun with rapists
- eldaisfish 4y agoIt is very obvious that your comment is from the perspective of a man. It is important to empathize with women and realise that “data” is not the ultimate source of truth as many supposedly data-driven but racist AI algorithms will show. Women face many structural and social objectives that make “aggregate” data on sexual violence almost meaningless and often counter-intuitive.
- reddyalready 4y ago> conclude that regions like India and sub saharan africa are safer for women than places like Sweden and the USA. Do you have a reliable source for concluding either way? I ask because I've seen conflicting information about per capita statistics (pointing to India and Sub-Saharan Africa indeed being safer) and arguments that the incidences are orders of magnitude higher than reported.
- rendall 4y agoRate per capita is a rounding error. It's better to talk about the total number of crimes in Antarctica across all stations, since the first crime in 1959. That total number of crimes is 5.
- rendall 4y agoJust want to remind everyone that downvotes on HN are not for "expressed opinion I disagree with". They are for "contravened community guidelines".
- PhasmaFelis 4y agoIt's pretty misleading to say that without mentioning that there's only 1000 people on the entire continent, over the winter. I'm on my phone so I don't have the actual numbers, but hypothetically, if Antarctica had one single reported rape every winter, that would be a yearly rate of 100 per 100K, comparable to some of America's worst cities.
- rendall 4y agoIt's very misleading to talk about "rapes" when the list of all crimes over all time in Antarctica is literally 5 items long and does not contain any rape.