The Majority of Military Sexual Assault Victims Are Men. Now Maybe We Can Fix This?

Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2013-06-28 11:59

Article here. Excerpt:

'Here’s how the debate over military sexual assault has unfolded thus far: Bold female leaders spoke out, smart male allies stood behind them, clueless conservative men started mansplaining the issue, and right-wing media went full misogynist. Because of this, it’s easy to imagine that military sexual assault is mainly a problem of men versus (or attacking) women, but as James Dao in the New York Times explains, in fact, the majority of sexual assault in the military is male-on-male crime.
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The fact that most military rape is male-on-male also shows how very wrong it is to suggest that the problem is that we let women serve to begin with. Even if you removed them all, that leaves nearly 14,000 rapes a year.
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It would be nice if the dynamics of sexual assault could be understood and accepted even when women are the victims, but sadly, that’s not the world we live in. Publicizing the percentage of victims that are men will help male victims understand that they’re not alone, and it will help the public at large better realize why widespread sexual assault happens and why it’s so critical to do a better job preventing and prosecuting it.'

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This just proves that feminists will make women the victims, regardless what the circumstances may be.

Here we have a problem with rape in the military, one which affects men slightly more than women. The only thing anybody spoke of at first was the female victims. Now, Amanda Marcotte is upset because the female victims were mentioned before the male? That makes absolutely no sense.

I think she's just mad because the very fact that men could be the majority of victims in this case is a huge contradiction to her perpetual victim narrative.

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Submitted by xtrnl on Fri, 2013-06-28 20:53

Note the usual conflating of rape and sexual assault.

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Submitted by MrWombat on Sat, 2013-06-29 08:14