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[thesummerqueen]

I think we've just established that there's more to statistics than generally meets the eye, and throwing them out there without more indepth explanation is usually only done to cause a certain reaction.

By the way, while I do not refute the argument that more rapes are committed by men on women (I recently saw some Discovery program that discussed a case study where it was suggested men might have a genetic predisposition toward aggression in general - careful with running with that information though) we do have to remember that:

1) In general, women are NOT as strong physically as men...it sorta puts the kibosh on some woman randomly grabbing a man and having her way with him in all the various places that a rape might happen. Although I'd really like to try it on Shia LaBeouf.

2) Anytime I read an article where a man DOES report a rape, someone is talking about how many probably DON'T - men can feel just as ashamed as women, and society puts a different sort of stigma on a man who was taken advantage of. You always hear the jokes about how someone says "Dude, she just groped/fondled/etc me!" and someone responding "Oh, like you didn't like it!" - dismissal like that is loosely on par with telling a woman it was her fault she was raped.

Take the other statistics you have and apply a little thought into what might skew those numbers. I'm not denying discrimination exists in this world. I do think people need to be more careful when they throw numbers around.