All men guilty?
Article here. Excerpt:
'The fashionable idea that all men are somehow responsible for a culture of rape and violence is not supported by the evidence... In Sweden, for example, a population-based study that looked at more than two million people from 1975 to 2004 found that only 1 per cent of the population were responsible for 63.2 per cent of all crimes recorded ... That’s a tiny percentage of the population responsible for the vast majority of offending.
The same holds true for sexual assault... The fact is that recidivist offenders are responsible for the vast bulk of all crimes, and unfortunately these individuals are the least likely to be persuaded by rehabilitation campaigns or public education efforts.
“But what about domestic violence?” one may ask...
It is true that women experience the most serious forms of domestic violence... Yet intimate-partner violence is not a male-only domain. In an Australian study, lesbians were likelier to report having been in an abusive relationship than gay men (41 per cent and 28 per cent respectively)... The feminist theory that claims violence is a tool used by men systematically to oppress women as a collective fails to account for such data. It also fails to account for the Nordic paradox.'
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