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You're really going to argue that more men are raped than women in America?
by pyrocat 13y ago
You're really going to argue that more men are raped than women in America?
- dragonwriter 13y ago> You're really going to argue that more men are raped than women in America? No, I'm going to argue that if you choose to make an argument implicitly premised on the different rape victimization by sex, you can't support it with just an unsupported statistic for one sex.
- pyrocat 13y agohttp://www.rainn.org/get-information/statistics/sexual-assault-victims http://www.rainn.org/get-information/statistics/sexual-assau... > About 3% of American men — or 1 in 33 — have experienced an attempted or completed rape in their lifetime.1 > In 2003, 1 in every ten rape victims were male.2
- ps4fanboy 13y agoMale rape is highly stigmatized, my uncle was raped and never reported it. Reported != Actual.
- pyrocat 13y agoThat's a great point, and I completely agree that reported stats are not equal to the actual stats. I would still say that there are more women raped in America than men.
- ps4fanboy 13y agoI would say that there are more women reporting rape in America than men asserting anything other than that is your opinion.
- transitionality 13y agoYou would be lying if you did that. http://betweenletters.quora.com/More-Men-Are-Raped-In-the-US-Than-Women http://betweenletters.quora.com/More-Men-Are-Raped-In-the-US...
- ceol 13y agoThat article didn't cite any of its data, and it even conflates reported rapes with rape estimates.
- transitionality 13y agoIt's US Justice Department figures.
- dragonwriter 13y ago> Male rape is highly stigmatized Incidentally, this (even assuming reliable victimization stats that weren't distorted by it) is one of the reasons why I wouldn't assume that the threat was necessarily less serious issued against a male based simply on victimization stats indicating that women were more likely to be victimized.
- transitionality 13y agoIt's not an argument, it's a fact. http://betweenletters.quora.com/More-Men-Are-Raped-In-the-US-Than-Women http://betweenletters.quora.com/More-Men-Are-Raped-In-the-US...
- pyrocat 13y agoTIL, thanks for the link. However, I don't think they have xbox live in prison.
- transitionality 13y agoYou talked about real rape, and so did I. Moving goalposts gets you nothing.
- dragonwriter 13y ago> However, I don't think they have xbox live in prison. People who have been in prison can, quite easily, have Xbox Live.
- pyrocat 13y agoNot with the sentence lengths and recidivism rates of our justice system. Do you know how hard it is to get a job and stay out of prison with something like a felony on your record?
- transitionality 13y agoYou're wasting your time. Xboxes has nothing to do with your claim. You made a claim about women being victims of actual rape more often. That is a lie. You got caught lying.
- pyrocat 13y agoOookay buddy. I didn't know about the prison statistics. I do now, and I even thanked you for providing the link. It has everything to do with the argument, because we're talking about online harassment, which you can't do or be a victim of if you're in prison.