Uni of Illinois is still using the 1 in 5 rape stat

bigasianpackage · 2016-02-28T00:34:32+00:00

The mass media seems to habitually inflame the public and never pass on the opportunity to sensationalize rape through misleading statistical conclusions. The result disrespects victims and distorts the public perception of a serious crime.

The oft repeated “one in five women in America have been raped” comes from a CDC survey which, when examined, is faulty and which stands for no such proposition.

Put plainly, “rape culture,” does not exist in the way it is represented. Kathy Young, editor at Reason Magazine, notes the following in a Time magazine piece,

These alarming headlines were typical of the coverage of last week’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report on sexual and intimate violence in the United States. The CDC study—the second in two years—seems to support a radical feminist narrative that has been gaining mainstream attention recently: that modern America is a “rape culture” saturated with misogynistic violence. But a closer look at the data, obtained from telephone surveys done in 2011, yields a far more complex picture and raises some surprising question about gender, victimization, and bias. (http://time.com/3393442/cdc-rape-numbers/)

The CDC estimates “2 million adult American women were raped in 2011 and nearly 6.7 million suffered some other form of sexual violence,” while the Department of Justice NCVS estimates that number to be at “238,000 rapes and sexual assaults.” (Ibid)

What causes the disparity in numbers? Claire Groden (New Republic) points to a redefining by the CDC of rape to include all consensual sex in which an individual was inebriated. Thus, if you wanted to have sex and smoked a joint or got drunk with your partner first (mutually or by yourself) you’ve just been raped. If your consensual partner got high or drunk with you, you’ve just raped your partner too.

The CDC survey asked, “if the respondents had ever experienced various sex acts while ‘drunk, high, drugged, or passed out and unable to consent.'”

(http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterfliesandwheels/2014/09/how-to-ask-rape-survey-questions/ (emphasis added))

So that night you celebrated your anniversary with your lover, drinking wine and having sex all night? Yeah, the CDC says you’ve just spent the night raping each other. This is the basis for a supposed American ‘rape culture’.

Further aggravating the disparity is the phrasing chosen by the CDC to bias respondents...

(That covers most of the main issues with the statistic... If you care to read the rest of it... https://bigasianpackage.wordpress.com/2015/11/29/false-statistics-rape-culture/. ...In keeping with good posting etiquette, the preceding is my work and my opinion)

Il128 · 2016-02-27T20:18:15+00:00

So tired of this stat...

Rates for prison rape. I'll Save you some reading it's 21% or 1 in 5.

Is the university of Illinois claiming that their student population has the same morals as a fucking prison?

SchalaZeal01 · 2016-02-27T17:29:07+00:00

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Title	Uni of Illinois is still using the 1 in 5 rape stat
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Date	February 27, 2016 4:41 PM UTC (10 years ago)
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