The majority of US rape victims are male.
No, really, ’tis true. There’s a small amount of the rape of men out in the general population: and the amount of rape in the prison population (a population which is overwhelmingly male) is larger than that in that general population.
Again, no, really. Despite the much smaller size of the prison population the number of rapes in it is larger (NOT just the percentage or the rate).
And thus the majority of rapes in the US are perpetrated upon men.
This generally isn’t true in other countries: much smaller prison populations and very much less rape in those that do exist.
Update: here’s a link to the stats.
You are mixing up the number of rapes and the number of victims in this post.
In the general population, the two numbers are probably close to equal.
But in US prison a small number of men are repeated victims.
So yes, I can believe that the number of offences against men is greater. But not the number of unique victims.
Male victims do not count.
Female victims of gangs of ethnic minorities do not count.
Only white women victims if Ivy League white attackers count.
I don’t want my boys to join US rape culture either. I hope my wife and I never get an invitation to the Rikers Island open day, or that we can politely decline.
Matt>
You’re wasting your time. Round here it’s only ‘rape’ if you get a signed, stamped, and witnessed certificate-of-rape from your rapist at the time of the offence. Otherwise it’s ‘feminazis gone mad’. Tim really ought to stick to economics.
Dave,
I believe the appropriate response is “[citation needed]”.
You are a mangina Dave–a crawling femmi-stooge. You would believe a false accuser if she told you that you raped her. Don’t blame us for your failings.
Dave.. its pathetic to see you ass kissing feminists in the sad hope that a piece of pie might come your way if you do…
Surprised at the amount of male rape in the military:
representing nearly 5 percent of all active-duty women and 1 percent of active-duty men…………..Nearly half the assaults reported by women and 35 percent reported by men were “penetrative sexual assaults” — crimes that include rape and penetration with an object.
http://www.militarytimes.com/story/military/pentagon/2014/12/04/pentagon-rand-sexual-assault-reports/19883155/
Surely some of the male rapes are indeed false accusations?
Got it! Because prisons are full of unusually truthful people we can be confident that few of the accusations are false.
I wonder how many Lefties now shiver with embarrassment when they remember piously intoning “better nine guilty men go free than one innocent man convicted”.
Indeed, the phrase ‘Rape Culture’ was coined to describe the US prison system. See this 1975 documentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwdVENIVaJY
In Soviet Russia, the penalty for sodomy was 2 years in prison.
There was a 3 year waiting list.
dearieme, indeed: prisons are full of stupid people and an English judge has ruled that such people never lie.
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Dave
I like the idea of rapists issuing signed, witnessed certificates of genuine rape.
I’m not sure it’s workable though. We can’t have any old whoever using them. We would need a government overseeing body, OfRape or Department for Rape, to allow people to become approved rape-certificate issuers.
It’s a double win. We will know which rape victims are genuine and which are lying. But we will also have many new jobs created – think of the bureaucracy! A whole new team of diversity coordinators would be required!
If we anonymise (sp?) the certificates so each issuer is only given an id number and the associated names are kept confidential, we can still employ lots of people to investigate and campaign. It would even improve efficiency in said jobs as no time wasted arguing over obviously false claims.
We’re onto something here.
Dave – “You’re wasting your time. Round here it’s only ‘rape’ if you get a signed, stamped, and witnessed certificate-of-rape from your rapist at the time of the offence. Otherwise it’s ‘feminazis gone mad’. Tim really ought to stick to economics.”
As dumb as your suggestion is, it is better than your alternative – which is men should go to jail solely on the word of a single mentally disturbed woman.
The real difference being that you are presenting a straw man of other people’s opinion no one has ever argued for. While actually arguing for dispensing with trials.
As the person who provided the (utterly uncredited – would it kill TW to mention where he got a link from?) link, I have my doubts that in most modern prisons there is a lot of rape.
These are extrapolations and guesses.
Given the level of security cameras where would these rapes take place?
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