By The Numbers: When Men Define Who Is Raped
Soraya Chemaly in HuffPo makes an overwhelming case that continuing shocking statements about rape by Republican legislators shouldn’t be…shocking……bc the ideas that appear to so many to be vicious and willfully ignorant are held by far more people than you might want to believe.
Ms. Chemaly points out that these prejudices …“are part of an age-old tradition of men with power defining when women are raped.”
Here is some real, fact-checked information from a list originally published in RHRealityCheck.
. The Low estimate of the number of women , according to the Department of Justice, raped every year: 300,000
. The High estimate of the number of women raped,: 1.3 million
. The Percentage of rapes not reported: 54 percent
. A woman’s chance of being raped in the U.S.: 1 in 5
. Chances that a raped woman conceives compared to one engaging in consensual sex: at least two times as likely
. Number of women in the US impregnated against their will each year in the U.S. as a result of rape: 32,000
.AND…THE Number of states in which rapists can sue for custody and visitation of their child of rape: at least 31…OVER 60% OF OUR STATES ALLOW THIS BARBARISM.
. …and … Chances that a woman’s body… according to that Missouri Republican Medical Sage… that women’s bodies “shut that whole thing down“: 0 in 3.2 billion
. Rank of U.S. in the world for rape: 13th
. A woman’s chance of being raped in college: 1 in 5
. Chances that a Native American woman will be raped: 1 in 3
. Percentage of women in Alaska who have suffered sexual assault: 37 percent
. Number of rape kits untested by the Houston police force: 6,000-7,000 (…AND Texas ranks second in nation for “forcible rape”)
. Number of rape kits left untested in Detroit, listed by Forbes magazine as one of two the most dangerous places for woman to live in the US: over 11,000
. U.S. state in which, in September 2012, a mentally disabled rape victim was required to provide evidence of her “kicking, biting, scratching” in objection to her rape: so-called progressive Connecticut
. Percentage of sexual assault and rape victims under the age of 12: 15 percent
. Percentage of men who have been raped: 3 percent
. Percentage of rapists who are never incarcerated: 97 percent
. Percentage of rapes that college students think are false claims: 50 percent
AND YET…THE
. Percentage of rapes that studies find are false claims: between 2 and 8 percent
. Chances an incarcerated person is raped in the U.S.: 1 in 10
. AND THERE’S A Country where women are imprisoned for being raped: Afghanistan
. Worldwide number of so-called “child brides” under the age of 18 forced to marry every day: 25,000 … AND If you think that’s not rape, you’re wrong.
. Ages of girls forced to marry a 59-year-old at the Tony Alamo Christian Ministry in Arkansas: 8, 14, and 15
. Chances that a woman in the U.S. is raped versus getting breast cancer: 2 to 1
. Percentage of victims of rape who report the use of a weapon: 11 percent
. AND GUESS where in 2012 a doctor faced the loss of her medical license for providing an abortion to a pregnant 10-year old incest rape victim: Kansas
. Country where major party’s vice-presidential candidate wants to criminalize all abortions including rape-related ones, because rape is just “another method of conception“: U.S. AND YES…THAT WAS REPRESENTATIVE PAUL RYAN.
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We have accepted a perverse notion of men that they are incapable of anything better than a hopeless animalism and it perpetuates a history of legislation and a cultural acceptance of brutality against women and girls.
Can we do no better than this?
07/06/2019 @ 8:21 pm
No words.
Jonathan Wolfman
07/06/2019 @ 11:45 pm
uhmhmm
Mrs Raptor
07/06/2019 @ 9:44 pm
We CAN do better… we CHOOSE not to. Oh and realistically, 4 out of 5 Native American women will be raped in their lifetime BUT a Caucasian male raping a Native American female is effectively not a crime because there’s no investigation and no prosecution even with overwhelming evidence in about 99% of cases.
Jonathan Wolfman
07/06/2019 @ 11:45 pm
This gets to the heart of the horror of it when men say they Are targets of a so-called new witch-hunt.
koshersalaami
07/07/2019 @ 1:44 am
Percentage of people who support legislation limiting womens’ rights who are fine using the term “feminazi”: I can only guess but I’d be willing to bet it’s damned high.
Ron Powell
07/07/2019 @ 9:24 am
Black men have been executed and lynched for being accused of raping a white woman…There is absolutely no record anywhere of a white man being executed after being found guilty of raping a black woman….