Do we live in a Rape Culture?

[Brownshoe]

(05-09-2016, 11:30 AM)Benton Wrote: Valid point.

On the other hand, this is one of the instances where it's overwhelmingly perpetrated by one group (men). It's around 1 in 4 women who get raped, and around 1 in 25 men (with some of those being raped by men and some falling under statutory rape, ie consensual sex with an above age female). And the "rape culture" concern is over the defense of that disproportionate number often being... 'well, it's her fault.'  It's 'her fault' she had too much to drink,' it's 'her fault she was wearing a short skirt,' etc.

So, yeah, it's a criminal behavior issue, but given the disparity in the numbers, there's something else. And the idea behind pointing to the rape culture is that the "something else" is a cultural problem.

Actually in 2014 1.1 out of 1000 (.001%) of the population total population was raped / sexually assaulted. The 1 in 4 women who get raped statistic is totally wrong.

http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cv14.pdf
(top of page 2)

EDIT: Whoops. That was total violent crime. The real statistic was 1.1 not 20.1.