The CDC’s Rape Numbers Are Misleading

Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2014-09-18 19:54

Article here.  Excerpt:

'"CDC: Nearly 1 in 5 Women Raped.” “One in Five U.S. Women Has Been Raped: CDC Survey.” These alarming headlines were typical of the coverage of last week’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report on sexual and intimate violence in the United States. The CDC study—the second in two years—seems to support a radical feminist narrative that has been gaining mainstream attention recently: that modern America is a “rape culture” saturated with misogynistic violence. But a closer look at the data, obtained from telephone surveys done in 2011, yields a far more complex picture and raises some surprising question about gender, victimization, and bias.
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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.
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We must either start treating sexual assault as a gender-neutral issue or stop using the CDC’s inflated statistics. Few would deny that sex crimes in America are a real, serious, and tragic problem. But studies of sexual violence should use accurate and clear definitions of rape and sexual assault, rather than lump these criminal acts together with a wide range of unsavory but non-criminal scenarios of men—and women—behaving badly.'

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just read where a 39 y.o. x-dfcs counselor was sentenced to life + 51 years for rape and molestation of a 14 y.o. girl. didn't I see just last week where a female teacher sexually assaulted (rape for men) several very young boy students and pretty much walked? oh yah, she got lotsa probation. he didn't come back from the lunch break so a warrant was issued.

probably another isil potential follower. its no wonder they aren't having any trouble finding recruits.

one system greatly favors men and another greatly favors women. at least their system doesn't claim to be fair and impartial. wonder how many read this article and said something like 'heck yeah, fry the basturd'?

men bad, women good, and don't you forget it!

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Submitted by daveinga on Fri, 2014-09-19 13:22

According to the data reported in the Washington Post (7/1), there were @ 3500 alleged sexual assaults reported across @ 1500 campuses in 2012, across a student population of 12M. That yields an approximate .06% chance of being sexually
assaulted within a given school year and a cumulative chance of .024% of being sexually assaulted within a 4 year college career.

Compare that to the inflammatory 20% probability being quoted by the National Intimate Partner Sexual Violence Survey (foundational to the CASA & White House efforts)... That split represents at least an 8000% discrepancy. The 20% number is off by at least 8000%! That's outrageous -- more so when we consider that it's quoted everywhere.

But let us assume, rightfully so, that sexual assault -- as a traumatic crime -- is severely under-reported. In order for the 20% to be anywhere near true, then we would have to assume that there were not 3500 victims but rather @
330,000. 3500 reports....330,000 silences. After decades of sensitivity training and encouragement…after decades of driving a hyper-awareness of the so-called “sexual violence problem on campuses”….after decades of effort focused on female equality and equal rights, giving women a voice in every forum imaginable…does anyone actually believe that there are only 3500 women (out of the mythical 330,000 ‘victims’ on these 1500 campuses) who had the courage to say anything???

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Submitted by ThomasI on Sat, 2014-09-20 11:59

Just a small correction there Thomas, the chance over four years would be .24 percent, not .024, but nonetheless, it is apparent that the statistics on assault and the faketoids (as I like to call them) we have been told about are off by factors of hundreds or even thousands in some cases. (For instance, the national rate last time I checked was 40/100 000 annually, over four years that would be 160/100 000 ) Even if you assume 90 percent of assaults go unreported, this would only increase the odds to 1600/100 000 , which is nowhere near 1 in 5. Mathematically, the statistic just doesn't add up, unless you convince yourself that more than 99 percent of assaults go unreported (specious at best) or that close to twenty percent of men are predators - which I have to reject. An overwhelming majority of men are disgusted by the idea of hurting a woman that way.

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Submitted by xtrnl on Sat, 2014-09-20 22:06