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Originally posted by Priyanka Chopra
Are you really using a Tumblr post as your evidence along with some incident in Russia with a woman holding an intruder hostage and feeding him Viagra as evidence that the gap between the number of female and victims is close? 
The person who you're responding to isn't even saying male rape and sexual assault victims shouldn't be taken seriously. It's just not as common. |
So you're just dismissing the post outright instead of actually reading it? For the record, all of the data used in the analysis comes straight from the CDC. Here's the link to the full study:
http://www.cdc.gov/ViolencePreventio...port2010-a.pdf
Take a look at these two tables, in particular:
As you can see, at the time the study was conducted, 1,270,000 women reported being raped in the past 12 months. 1,267,000 men reported being forced to penetrate someone else. Sounds pretty close to me.
The problem, of course, is that those men are filed under victims of "other sexual violence", not "rape".
As for why the lifetime statistics are different, the blogger offers this theory:
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Unless 2010 represented an incredible boom in the number of female rapists or it’s a small group of men who are repeatedly being raped, the lifetime figures for men have something wrong with them.
Basically, people tend to stop recalling past trauma when prompted after a while. In fact, this tendency is far stronger in men than women. For example, women with a documented history of childhood sexual abuse were four times more likely to recall their trauma than their male counterparts. More research into this topic may be necessary, but it’s a pretty sensible theory.
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If you think that their analysis is faulty, tell me how. But I think it's pretty airtight.
And the incident with Olga Zajac was meant to prove that men get blamed for their rape just as often as women. A woman who raped a man for three straight days was heralded as a hero. You don't see anything wrong with that?
My point is that if you all want male rape victims to start being taken seriously, then the
first step is to let men know that they
can, in fact, be raped by women. And you can't do that if you continually frame it as an exclusively male-on-female crime.
So many men like to think that rape doesn't exist.