• Tattorack@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    The other is also a lie if you consider the stigma against men for reporting sexual assault and abuse by women.

    Statistics are only as good as the data included.

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      Underreporting of sex crimes by male victims of male assailants might possibly skew the ratio slightly, but underreporting by male victims also applies to male assailants, available evidence overwhelmingly indicates that men are more likely to commit sex crimes and violent crimes, and unlike biased racial statistics there’s no evidence whatsoever for the same sort of individual and institutional motive to skew them. We have outright racists in law enforcement verifiably & deliberately targeting minority communities, we have no evidence to suggest similar for men vs women in regard to law enforcement/crime stats.

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        You don’t get it, do you?

        So long as there is a stigma on males reporting, or emotionally opening up, about assaults by females, then not a single gender statistic can be trusted, or used as an objective measure.

        “Available evidence”. Available evidence. Available is the key word.

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          There’s a big difference between saying that violent/sexual crimes committed by women are underreported and claiming that the gap in reporting would come anywhere close to making up the difference in rates of commission of these crimes between men and women, the former is verifiably true and the latter is extremely not verifiable and almost certainly not true

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            I absolutely believe the gap is virtually none-existent. If taken into account how basically no sexual assault is reported for men because nobody takes them seriously, and how even just looking at a woman can already be considered sexual assault, we have a monumental disparity in our society.

            Giving any credence to statistics before this is solved compounds certain issues that shouldn’t exist, and aids those with ulterior motives. If you adhere to these like you seem to, you’re part of the problem.