Yeah, I was thinking of serial murdering to genocide, but then when it comes to crimes one can victimize another single person with, rape is usually regarded as the worst.
And I sort of get why it's considered worse than murder, because in many cases, living with extreme trauma - you may as well be dead, because there won't be much left of you to salvage.
Of course, different people recover from or deal with different things differently, but let's just say you'll always carry being raped with you.
It's how feminists want to make women scared of their shadow. It's a mindset of not solving issues but making them even worse.
You clearly don't understand how burden of proof works. If a jury finds you not guilty, that does not mean that you are innocent, only that there was not enough evidence to prove guilt. Because friends, family, mentors, even therapists of the victim might not believe them, they often don't come forward. Implying that a rape didn't happen when it did, that the accuser must be crazy 88% of the time, that is exactly what I mean when I talk about rape culture. Can we at least agree that what I've been talking about for hours now does happen, since it's happening right here in front of everyone?
https://www.hrw.org/report/2015/05/1...rs-us-military
I know you won't read it but here is a detailed report about what can happen to victims who come forward.
Also the 33% response rate turn the sample size into 2700 ish - Which then means its 13++ ish women - Which is not statistically significant enough to produce valid results.
- - - Updated - - -
No it literally means that.
You start innocent, therefore the absence of a guilty verdict necessitates you being innocent.
If you'd taken statistics you would now that the size of the sample relative to the size of the population does not affect it's accuracy. Once again, you're ignoring the fact that I'm not talking just about rape convictions, but also about rapes and sexual assaults that go unreported.
UNREPORTED rapes everyone. We're delving into that eyeroll-inducing, disingenuous territory again.
Trauma is what you make of it, in most cases. In our culture of hyper-victimization, the trauma is many times worse than it would be in a culture that promotes having the strength to simply overcome adversity.
Rape itself - in most cases - is not nearly as traumatic as many, many other crimes. It's basically just sex that you don't want to have. Really, it's far from the worst that can happen to you. But we've made it into something different - something much worse than it actually is. That's the real 'rape culture' - this perpetuation of self-victimization and appeals to authority.
Of course there are many different types of rape. Some are worse than others. Violent, damaging rape is much worse than simple forced penetration. We treat them the same, we treat all of them as though they're the worst thing that could happen. It's insulting to victims of the most destructive rapes, and it's a destructive ideology itself.
...
Actual figures from the NCVS, including unreported crimes, versus CDC's estimation from a sample size of a single town in an American back-water.Both critics and supporters of the CDC’s methodology note the striking disparity between CDC figures and the Justice Department’s crime statistics based on the National Crime Victimization Survey (which includes crimes unreported to the police). While the CDC estimates that nearly 2 million adult American women were raped in 2011 and nearly 6.7 million suffered some other form of sexual violence, the NCVS estimate for that year was 238,000 rapes and sexual assaults.
If you read my post, you would perhaps have realized that what you're saying here has nothing to do with what I'm talking about.
My argument is that the researchers are getting selective responses to their survey because people who are raped are more likely to engage themselves in a survey about rape than people who have not been raped - who see such a survey as not relevant to them.
And ultimately the best way to move on (most studies suggest) involves just that - Declaring it to be bad sex, lumping it together with all other sex one have had, and then moving on.
Whereas treating it as the most serious of horribleness typically results in the victim not moving on.
Back to the point, there are certainly problems with how things are handled, but they're not so much exclusive to rape as much as they are to crime in general.
I concede that it's pretty sad that a lot of people worship celebrities so greatly that they are willing to overlook or ignore things like that in order to preserve the good image they have of, say, a Bill Cosby, in their minds.
But that's not a rape-thing. If he had murdered someone, there would still be the same people ignoring it because they put him on such a pedestal that any form of evidence that he might have committed a crime is considered blasphemy, shut out and filtered.
It's an unhealthy obsession with celebrities, yes.
As for families? There will always be family members of criminals that will defend them to their very last breath. It happens with serial murderers, rapists, thieves, thugs, any type of criminal.
Not all family members do it, but those that do, will not budge - ever. They see that criminal family member as a part of their pack, their own, and he is prioritized above anyone else since he's in the inner circle of that family, whereas the victim and the justice system are generally outside it, and thus seen as secondary or tertiary.
Last edited by Yarathir; 2016-06-17 at 08:10 PM.