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The rape statistics are really sad, but this way of talking about it is misleading. Most rapes are committed by someone the woman already has a relationship wit
by whiddershins 13y ago
The rape statistics are really sad, but this way of talking about it is misleading. Most rapes are committed by someone the woman already has a relationship with. Therefore all the stuff she's talking about is actually focusing on the less common issue because the more prevalent problem is so much harder to address.
- tych0 13y agoA million times this. Additionally, if you say to a woman "don't go into a dark alley with a strange man", you'll probably also say "you shouldn't have been in a dark alley with a strange man". That is, you're already blaming the victim, before any crime has even occurred.
- mistermann 13y agoThose aren't rape statistics, they are sexual assault statistics, which she then incorrectly treats as rape statistics. Sexual assault is a very different thing and has an incredibly inclusive definition. For example, if a woman happened to see a man peeing, in the eyes of the law (in some jurisdictions at least), she was sexually assaulted. If a man touches a woman's ass in a bar without an explicit invitation, she was sexually assaulted. FWIW, I'm a man and I've been "sexually assaulted" well over ten times in my life.