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A bit late (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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"b-but bears are actually dangerous!" Shut the hell up.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Do we need to start throwing out the stats for how many rapist are men compared to women?

Spoiler alert, most rapist are men and it's not even close.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Do we need to start throwing out the stats for how many rapist are men compared to women?

Sure, just as long as you define rape in such a way that female-on-male rape actually counts as rape, which it doesn't in the vast majority of "rape statistics" that get put out. Quote http://time.com/3393442/cdc-rape-numbers :

And now the real surprise: when asked about experiences in the last 12 months, men reported being “made to penetrate”—either by physical force or due to intoxication—at virtually the same rates as women reported rape (both 1.1 percent in 2010, and 1.7 and 1.6 respectively in 2011). In other words, if being made to penetrate someone was counted as rape—and why shouldn’t it be?—then the headlines could have focused on a truly sensational CDC finding: that women rape men as often as men rape women.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Highly unreported numbers when it comes to female rapists, so your numbers might be skewed

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Highly unreported numbers for male rapists too, especially since most male victims were raped by men.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

but those are likely to be repeat offenders, so i'm not actually sure that how that would effect it.

The raw number of rapes will go up, but rapists will probably rise quite a bit less.

Statistics is hard >:(