[Shortest Straw]

Widely touted is the flawed survey that returned a statistic that 1 in 5 college women will be sexually assaulted.

A freshly released DOJ study puts the number at not 20% but 0.61%.

Not one in 5 but closer to one in 200.

Here's the first writeup on it I have read:

http://thefederalist.com/2014/12/11/new-...ictimized/

Note these are "sexual assaults", not rapes - a far broader category.

Another highlight: The sexual assault rate is LOWER for college students than the general population!

And one more comforting highlight: Like other rape statistics, the trend is downward. So much for an "epidemic".

Note also that the survey includes statistics on sexual assaults not reported to the police. Worth a read.

Here is the full survey: http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/rsavcaf9513.pdf

[Ensam]

Oops, you beat me too it. Here's the post I wrote:

Inspired by a recently released report on sexual assault which notes that rape on college campuses is actually really low - and falling.

   
http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=5176

Indeed for most of the past sixteen years non-student college aged women (18-24) have been more likely to be raped than students of the same age.

Perhaps most interesting sexual assault on men:
   

Although the number of sexual assaults on men is lower than women a college aged man is actually significantly more likely to be sexually assaulted as a student than as a non-student. If there is a rape culture on college campuses it is that men are less safe there than in the general public.

Of course when it comes to every other type of violent crime men are far more likely to be the victims than women:
   
http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cvus04.pdf

Rape is horrible. Nobody should be raped or sexually violated. However, whatever society has been doing over the past 15 years has been working really well at reducing rape both on and off campus. There is no crisis and no rape culture - only hysteria.

[Shortest Straw]

(12-12-2014 12:43 AM)Ensam Wrote:  

Rape is horrible. Nobody should be raped or sexually violated. However, whatever society has been doing over the past 15 years has been working really well at reducing rape both on and off campus. There is no crisis and no rape culture - only hysteria.

This is incredibly good news - and its timing is almost perfect, coming at the tail end of the Jackie debacle. It's good news because maybe this hysteria will finally recede - and also because campuses really are pretty safe places.

[StrikeBack]

Soon to be all over social media: Social Jerkoff Weasels get hysterical and mad as nowhere near enough college girls are actually raped to satisfy their agenda.

[Muk]

So you mean to say that the hysteria and all of the SJW losing their shit is working to lower the incidence?

[Suits]

(12-12-2014 01:39 AM)StrikeBack Wrote:  

Soon to be all over social media: Social Jerkoff Weasels get hysterical and mad as nowhere near enough college girls are actually raped to satisfy their agenda.

Don't count on it. The 1 in 5 statistic was never taken serious by anyone with have a brain and the original study has been repeatedly debunked.

However, Social Jerkoff Weasels prefer the hysteria as does society.

Women (the 50%) like to view themselves as victims and men aren't allowed to say anything negative about women.

[Ensam]

(12-12-2014 01:56 AM)Muk Wrote:  

So you mean to say that the hysteria and all of the SJW losing their shit is working to lower the incidence?

No. The rate has been declining since long before the current SJW movement. It's ticked up very slightly on college campuses in the past few years - coincidence?

[Dusty]

Really amazing we've had three bursting of rape hysteria in the past few weeks. Of course the UVa/Rolling Stone rape hoax fiasco, Lena Dunham's rape accusation from her book falling apart, and now the debunking of the 1 in 5 stat.

It's been a good end to 2014.

[Old Fritz]

Women will continue to say it anyway. Kind of how they continue to complain about a wage gap even though that has been debunked several times.