Rape culture isn't real. There, I said it. It's a conspiracy theory by radical feminists and has no factual basis in reality, and by all accounts it traces right back to a self-reporting study by Mary Koss for Ms Magazine that gave us the bogus 1 in 4 figures feminists continue to cite. It ignored the fact that 73% of the women she identified as victims did not believe they’d been raped or sexually assaulted. Furthermore, 43% of the people she identified as victims went on to date their “attackers”. This is what happens when using very loose definitions of what qualifies as rape.
The results of a similar survey for men with loose definitions was just released and found almost half of school-aged boys & men were raped, 95% of their rapists being women. Instead of men's groups calling for an end of rape culture, they're saying "hold on a minute, lets look at those numbers". Feminists never did that and instead used the Koss study as a citation and it's been Woozleing it's way though feminist academia for decades.
What we do know is that rape is NOT a gendered crime. Men and women are raped in the US about equally, and quite possibly is the case throughout western society. Most people do not know this because Koss and other feminists saw to it to have the CDC and FBI classify male rape victims into a completely different category of sexual violence. Therefore male victims of rape aren't included in govt rape statistics. When you include male victims of rape that the govt lists in the "forced to penetrate" category, the figures are almost identical.
Sources:
Nara Schoenberg and Sam Roe, “The Making of an Epidemic,” Toledo Blade, October 10, 1993
Neil Gilbert, “Examining the Facts: Advocacy Research Overstates the Incidence of Data and Acquaintance Rape,” Current Controversies in Family Violence eds.
Richard Gelles and Donileen Loseke, Newbury Park, CA.: Sage Publications, 1993, pp.120-132
Campus Crime and Security, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Education, 1997. Note: According to this study, campus police reported 1,310 forcible sex offenses on U.S. campuses in one year. That works out to an average of fewer than one rape per campus.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/cdc-study-on-sexual-violence-in-the-us-overstates-the-problem/2012/01/25/gIQAHRKPWQ_story.html
http://www.avoiceformen.com/allbulletins/honey-badger-radio-mary-koss-and-the-american-rape-machine/
http://www.saveservices.org/2014/03/e-lert-hidden-victims-men-who-are-forced-to-penetrate/
http://www.rainn.org/news-room/rainn-urges-white-house-task-force-to-overhaul-colleges-treatment-of-rape
http://time.com/37337/nearly-half-of-young-men-say-theyve-had-unwanted-sex/
http://www.genderratic.com/p/2798/male-disposability-mary-p-koss-and-influencing-a-government-entity-to-erase-male-victims-of-rape/
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