RE: Rape and injustice.
April 10, 2013 at 10:39 pm
(This post was last modified: April 10, 2013 at 10:42 pm by Creed of Heresy.)
By report, those are the numbers. By the way, it's probably closer to 1 in 5 for women with non-reporting taken into account. You're quoting numbers from reported rapes. I literally just addressed that. If only 3% of the male population has been raped, and that's the final closing number, then I must know nearly 10% of all men who have been raped (this is an exaggeration; before anyone jumps down my throat on this...), and most of the time I've only been confided in long after I've become friends with said individuals. Besides, since when has what someone is supposed to be or not supposed to be ever really meant anything? We're all supposed to be ultrapatriots ready to die for the flag, but most Americans are pretty pissed off at our country. We're all supposed to be Christians, cuz this here be a Christian nation. Except... And we atheists are all supposed to be a bunch of immoral child-murdering rapists because we have no "morals," and yet.
I think (emphasis on that, I'm not saying you are, this is just my perception so far) that you're coming at the problem from the mistaken POV that the biggest problem is simply "men. Men are the biggest problem with rape." I disagree with this conclusion. I think sexual repression is the biggest problem. I can't help but notice that nations that are largely non-religious seem to have fewer reported rapes but they do have a very high conviction rate, such as Holland, with a reported rape instance of 1.7% of the population yet a conviction rate of nearly 80%. And since religions tend to be the ones saying that sex is wrong and must be controlled and all this other shit, and the UK and US ARE the most religious developed nations in the world, and yet they have some of the highest levels of reported rapes...mmh...something to consider.
I am fairly sure that most rapes are committed by men in the US, mind you. I think this has something to do with the culture, not the "rape culture," I hate that term, but rather the culture that has this mentality where might makes right and men are stronger so therefore they can take what they want.
No matter. I am not volunteering in the field of prevention. I am volunteering in the field of trying to treat the symptoms. I don't have the cure. Nor do I even really have a grasp on the cause. Nor does anyone, it seems. Just a lot of blaming. Blaming the victims, the genders, the cultures, nothing concrete. I tire of blame. So I do the best I can.
I think (emphasis on that, I'm not saying you are, this is just my perception so far) that you're coming at the problem from the mistaken POV that the biggest problem is simply "men. Men are the biggest problem with rape." I disagree with this conclusion. I think sexual repression is the biggest problem. I can't help but notice that nations that are largely non-religious seem to have fewer reported rapes but they do have a very high conviction rate, such as Holland, with a reported rape instance of 1.7% of the population yet a conviction rate of nearly 80%. And since religions tend to be the ones saying that sex is wrong and must be controlled and all this other shit, and the UK and US ARE the most religious developed nations in the world, and yet they have some of the highest levels of reported rapes...mmh...something to consider.
I am fairly sure that most rapes are committed by men in the US, mind you. I think this has something to do with the culture, not the "rape culture," I hate that term, but rather the culture that has this mentality where might makes right and men are stronger so therefore they can take what they want.
No matter. I am not volunteering in the field of prevention. I am volunteering in the field of trying to treat the symptoms. I don't have the cure. Nor do I even really have a grasp on the cause. Nor does anyone, it seems. Just a lot of blaming. Blaming the victims, the genders, the cultures, nothing concrete. I tire of blame. So I do the best I can.
