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For ride-share drivers? Where? Those are general statistics for the general population. Why are these relevant for a skewed sample of the population? And more importantly, how are those relevant for places like my country, which happens to be a lot more ethnically homogeneous, but that still sees these sexual assaults happening?
Is it, though, if the statistics for sexual crimes based on sex consistently turn up at a 9:1 ratio for males vs females? That's a whole magnitude of difference that you can't ignore. And this is the Mexican government putting out these statistics for cases of sexual assault and rape at a national level. The ones I've seen for the US are very similar.
And yet the overwhelming majority of perpetrators are male. Have I been groped by women? Yes. Can I be raped by a woman? Of course. But the fact of the matter is that I'm way more likely to be a victim of sexual assault by other men, and I have been multiple times throughout the years. You can't deny this is the overall trend in every society that has ever existed.
The fact of the matter is that male sexual violence is a part of many species' biology, including our own. Do you really think that rape is not a viable reproductive strategy in several species? It's time to face reality, and that's not necessarily mysandrist despite all this pearl-clutching. If men didn't do it disproportionately, we wouldn't be having this exchange. Simple as that.
Only if you frame it under the tired adage of “boys will be boys” as if I'm the one saying that. That's all you. My POV is based on academic publishing that I've read throughout the years.
And your solution is?
They used to have similar studies to show that black people had lower IQ.
Sexual assault is a crime. Criminals commit crimes. This isn't supposed to be a "Men against Women" thing. It's criminals vs. victims. Of course men will commit more VIOLENT crimes like SA than women, men have a biological strength advantage which really helps commit violent crimes. I don't deny biology.
But if we act like it's more than that, that men are inherently going to sexually assault women and there is nothing we can do about it other than hide women, we're accepting that sexual assault as an unavoidable part of everyday life instead of treating it like the unacceptable crime it is.
No, because you're imagining that that's what the report said based on what you want to think and are drawing historical connections to a situation that is only superficially similar.
And yet it keeps happening at a disproportionate rate. It seems to me that you say you don't want to deny the biology, but don't hesitate to deny the behavior.
Mind you, I'm not saying that all men are rapists because I'm also a man and I know that's not true. I'm saying the great majority of sexual assaulters are men, so let's address that by giving people who are hesitant a choice. I think we can both agree on that, no?