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Author: surgoshan

Jun 13th 2012 at 7:35:20 PM

And the first two studies linked to on that page indicate that for men it's something like 15% or 16% (which is horrible), but that for women it's between 25% and 33% (which is worse), which that page doesn't mention.

Yes, a great deal of what MRAs say is technically correct (Technically, female soldiers can't serve on the front lines. Modern warfare eliminated the concept of the front line at least fifty years ago), but it absolutely doesn't change the fact that things are worse for women than for men across the board, and some things are ''absolutely'' worse, such as the fact that women are far more likely to be the victims of crime, especially rape.

I absolutely do not want to minimize, understate, or deny the pain of men who have been the victim of such an attack, but I think it would be disingenuous ''at best'' to claim that the fear of rape is not distinctly more a part of a woman's daily life than a man's. Again, the links on that page spell it out; the vast majority of males are victimized as children, but it's something women have to guard against their entire lives. That's why this is a special variant of AdultFear. It's not a part of the average man's adult life that he has to be concerned that, if he lets his roommate's boyfriend in the apartment when the roommate isn't there, that the boyfriend might decide to rape him. It certainly doesn't find its way into our fiction.