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by enraged_camel
4880 days ago
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>>Men and women commit rape and are raped in roughly equal numbers, and that is not including prison rape. When do include that, men are the majority of the victims. Statistics have very little meaning without context. From your first link: >Men are the vast majority of rapists and women are the vast majority of victims because rape was defined in such a way to make sure that this was so. Exactly. This is so because the context is that we live in a patriarchal society where it is much easier for men to use their power and dominance to take advantage of women. You see, that's what rape is about: dominance. It doesn't have anything to do about penises or vaginas or anuses. When Person A rapes Person B it is because they want to establish their dominance on Person B. Men are disproportionately classified as rapists because they are exploiting their already dominant status in society at great harm to the other person. And if we were living in a matriarchal society, it would be the exact opposite. |
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I agree that the narrative of men being strong serves the interests of the men at the top of the power structure, but that is a tiny percentage of all men.
The average man has no more power than the average woman.