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In reply to the discussion: Indian woman jumps off moving train to flee rape [View all]FarrenH
(768 posts)32. says a great many sources
http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/199211/round-rapists
http://www.amazon.com/Men-Who-Rape-Psychology-Offender/product-reviews/0738206245/ref=la_B001K7TY04_1_1_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/10/science/new-studies-map-the-mind-of-the-rapist.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
"Its only about violence" and "its only about dominance" are largely the fruit of speculative feminist theory. And in fact some studies have tested these propositions:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00224498309551170
and found them wanting.
A few simple statistics also dispel the idea that every woman is equally at risk. For instance, while victims range from infants to octogenerians, in the USA:
15% of victims are under age 12
29% are age 12-17
44% are under age 18
80% are under age 30 (SOO, 1997, 1999 NCVS)
so 65% of all victims are between puberty and age 30, an age range that constitutes 35% of the population, according to the 2011 census. Coincidentally, its also the age range from which men are most likely to find women desirable. This isn't rocket science
http://www.amazon.com/Men-Who-Rape-Psychology-Offender/product-reviews/0738206245/ref=la_B001K7TY04_1_1_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/10/science/new-studies-map-the-mind-of-the-rapist.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
"Its only about violence" and "its only about dominance" are largely the fruit of speculative feminist theory. And in fact some studies have tested these propositions:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00224498309551170
and found them wanting.
A few simple statistics also dispel the idea that every woman is equally at risk. For instance, while victims range from infants to octogenerians, in the USA:
15% of victims are under age 12
29% are age 12-17
44% are under age 18
80% are under age 30 (SOO, 1997, 1999 NCVS)
so 65% of all victims are between puberty and age 30, an age range that constitutes 35% of the population, according to the 2011 census. Coincidentally, its also the age range from which men are most likely to find women desirable. This isn't rocket science
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i am hearing ya. sounded like free reign on women. hurtling selves off trains.
seabeyond
Jan 2013
#18
Insert the tablets, fall down and flail your arms and legs as if having a seizure. I like it.
Doremus
Jan 2013
#13
Good one. Perhaps combined with a vacant stare and drool. Passing gas might work wonders too. nt
Doremus
Jan 2013
#37
Rapists aren't attracted to women. Rape is a crime of violence, not sexual attraction.
yardwork
Jan 2013
#20
Psychology Today and random books listed on Amazon aren't authoritative sources.
yardwork
Jan 2013
#33
What is your point? That women are responsible for being raped because of the way they dress?
yardwork
Jan 2013
#35
I don't have the study at hand but almost all rapists can't remember what their victim was wearing
riderinthestorm
Jan 2013
#42
india's police are very corrupt, and of those who ARE reported many rapists end up going free
JI7
Jan 2013
#24
and i have travellled to india also , and people do have privacy and women don't always scream
JI7
Jan 2013
#53
I categorically refuse to believe the Indian numbers you present there. (nt)
Posteritatis
Jan 2013
#25
The stats are straight from Wikipedia, your quarrel should be with them, not me..here is the link
golfguru
Jan 2013
#43
I love ya dkf but an untrained woman with a gun trying to fight off a trained military officer?
riderinthestorm
Jan 2013
#30