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If you're speaking to a randomly selected adult American audience, on average, roughly 1 in 12 people in that audience have been raped. You're probably going t
by lauraura 14y ago
If you're speaking to a randomly selected adult American audience, on average, roughly 1 in 12 people in that audience have been raped. You're probably going to make a good portion of those people feel even more awful about being a victim -- never mind the PTSD. That should be good enough reason not to joke about it.
- flexie 14y agoEvery rape is one too many but these 1 in 12 (or 1 in 4) figures that we hear about, are dubious: http://triggeralert.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-1-in-12-rape-statistic-broken-down.html http://triggeralert.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-1-in-12-rape-st... I am not saying that joking about rape is okay if "only" 1 in 40 women in the audience has been raped. Just that the figures are questionable.
- lutusp 14y ago>I am not saying that joking about rape is okay if "only" 1 in 40 women in the audience has been raped. Just that the figures are questionable. They certainly are. FBI labs, who had every incentive to find otherwise, has discovered that, of every 100 sex crime reports filed by women, between 20 and 40 of them are false: "False Rape Accusations May Be More Common Than Thought": http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,194032,00.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,194032,00.html Researched by Wendy McElroy, editor of ifeminists.com (who also had every incentive to find otherwise, and who expected to).
- flexie 14y agoAlong those lines: This study by forensic science researcher, Birgitte Schmidt Astrup, found that consensual sexual intercourse often produces genital lesions: http://www.fsijournal.org/article/S0379-0738(11)00563-9/abstract http://www.fsijournal.org/article/S0379-0738(11)00563-9/abst... It's interesting, because the finding of genital lesions sometimes decide the outcome of rape cases.