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by hythloday 5189 days ago
What's your source for the first claim? I've never heard it before - Wikipedia cites[0] a 2006 investigation that found 2,205 allegations, 262 of which were substantiated. The FBI collected[1] 92,455 allegations of forcible rape - i.e. excluding other kinds of rape - in the same year - even if just 1% of those were proved, that's still nearly an order of magnitude disparity.

(Please don't take my comment as dismissing your other points - sexism hurts men and women. I'm just curious about that specific claim.)

  [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_rape_in_the_United_States
  [1] http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2006/offenses/violent_crime/forcible_rape.html