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[BrianSoddingBoru4]

This guy!!



Boru

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

NOT this guy!!


Nearly 80% of rape victims knew their rapist. This guy is dangerously stupid.

Boru

[Silver]

Lil Nas X’s pregnancy stunt is actually raising money for important human rights causes
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/08/li...undraiser/

[Spongebob]

Why can't we vote Texas off the island?

[Rev. Rye]

NOT this guy!!


Nearly 80% of rape victims knew their rapist. This guy is dangerously stupid.

Boru

And that’s not getting into how rape is a notoriously underreported crime, or that, due to the nature of the crime, it’s easy for the defense attorneys in rape cases to sew doubt in the juries, thus leading to a low conviction rate and oftentimes, extremely short sentences. Never mind that the countries that have made the most headway in bucking this trend have views on abortion diametrically opposed to- remind me again, who the fuck thought that was a viable strategy?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

NOT this guy!!


Nearly 80% of rape victims knew their rapist. This guy is dangerously stupid.

Boru

And that’s not getting into how rape is a notoriously underreported crime, or that, due to the nature of the crime, it’s easy for the defense attorneys in rape cases to sew doubt in the juries, thus leading to a low conviction rate and oftentimes, extremely short sentences. Never mind that the countries that have made the most headway in bucking this trend have views on abortion diametrically opposed to- remind me again, who the fuck thought that was a viable strategy?

Certainly not Abbott. Texas has the highest number of rapes of any US state. If Abbott had any plans to ‘eliminate all rapists from the streets’, you’d think he would have done something before now. Instead, he just vommed out a glib, content-free non-answer to an uncomfortable question.

Boru

[Rev. Rye]

Wait, are we talking sheer numbers or per capita? Because if it’s the former, the fact that it’s the second-most populous state of the Union makes it unsurprising, and if you mean the latter, well, it’s not even in the Top 10. And if this were true, having the highest number could mean a lot of things (that said, I have to admit that I’m not certain any of the three are true for Texas):

• The rape victims of Texas are more likely to report their sexual assault to the cops, which implies that they have more faith than usual that the cops will give them justice. This may be due to naïveté or the cops actually effectively doing their jobs.
  
• They have a broader definition of what constitutes rape than many other jurisdictions
  
• The stats count incidents where the rapist has raped their victim multiple times as multiple offenses, which can skew the numbers somewhat.
  

And, of course, tangentially related to the first point, what percentage of reported rapes leads to a conviction? 

Depressingly, the old Mark Twain quote about lies, damn lies, and statistics really applies to statistics about rape. The greatly underreported nature of rape makes it hard to get a handle on how big the problem is, and it can be depressingly easy to skew the picture of how much rape there is in a certain place. And Shaun covers the topic as part of his debunking of one of the stories in this video:




In a rather extreme example not covered in the video, I recently found out that New Jersey has the lowest per capita rate of sexual assault of any of America’s 50 states, with 16 per 100k. The country of Algeria has a rate 10% of that. Does this mean women are safer in Algiers than in Philip Roth country? Nope, it turns out the rates are so low because, in their legal code, rape is so poorly defined that it’s hard for victims to report it and seek legal recourse.

On another frustrating note, I found out that thing about Algeria’s praeternaturally fucked rape laws while I was trying to find statistics about what percentages of rape cases end in a conviction for sexual assault in any given jurisdiction. I tried for about 20 minutes and the closest thing I found are those pages about how many rapes are estimated to go through any of the given stages of a criminal case from reporting to spending even a day in jail. Nothing for any given jurisdiction, let alone Texas. One would think stats like those would be useful, but evidently, people aren’t keeping track for whatever reason.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Wait, are we talking sheer numbers or per capita?

Raw numbers. Texas has almost 15 000 rapes per year, or about 40/day. And since - as you noted - lots of rapes go unreported, so the actual number is a lot higher.

But the point is that Abbott claims Texas is going to eliminate rapes, but clearly doesn’t give  two shits about sexual assault.

Boru

[Rev. Rye]

Wait, are we talking sheer numbers or per capita?

Raw numbers. Texas has almost 15 000 rapes per year, or about 40/day. And since - as you noted - lots of rapes go unreported, so the actual number is a lot higher.

But the point is that Abbott claims Texas is going to eliminate rapes, but clearly doesn’t give  two shits about sexual assault.

Boru

Makes sense that it would have the most sheer numbers. It's the second most populous state (second only to California), so it's almost inevitable that the sheer numbers would be higher (and edging out California by only 25 reported cases).

[Silver]

Daniel Craig’s iconic, homoerotic James Bond scene was almost cut by prudish executives
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/08/ja...iel-craig/