Naomi Wolf's combat rape epidemic

alaysian · 2012-06-20T17:43:47+00:00

Its enough to make one sick, this idea that since its women who are being hurt, we must do something about it.

Rape is one of many tragedies on the battlefield, where is your anger, your shock, your cries for change for the others?

TracyMorganFreeman · 2012-06-20T18:29:24+00:00

Dod reports show around 2000 incidents a year or less on average, which includes attempts and civilian victims and assailants(where the opposite person was a servicemember, and both sexes.

Most surveys indicate around 2-3% of women, but this includes all "sexual" crimes including stalking and harassment.

According to the DoD numbers, or Wolf’s interpretation of them, fully 9 percent of active duty military females, 19,000 in all

Yeah I read that survey. The same survey also extrapolated to the entire male military population(which is how they got the 19,000 victims, and sampling bias be damned, right?) would have yielded 15,000 male victims.

So either the survey is very flawed, or Naomi is picking and choosing her data and ignoring male victims.

firex726 · 2012-06-20T17:22:34+00:00

I'd like to know more about how they got those numbers.

10% of all women in the military are raped? Seems kind of high.

matt_512 · 2012-06-20T18:09:00+00:00

I honestly don't agree with the article. Sure, combat zones are likely places of rape, with favorable conditions (violence-prone people) but the problem that most feminists have is inaction by higher-ups. These people aren't soldiers, they are officers and even people working in the pentagon, who haven't seen a day of combat in their lives. Soldiers need to fight the enemy, not other soldiers. Acting like we shouldn't at least try to strive for that is dismissing the problem.

EpicJ · 2012-06-20T20:00:28+00:00

I have a question, I know in america especially where there are many males, like in prison there is quite a lot of rape, surely there would be males that are also raped in the military? I mean if there are 52 females raped a day I would expect a atleast a few males victims, or doesn't it happen between males in the services?

ThePigman · 2012-06-21T02:28:08+00:00

And remember, Naomi Wolf is one of those "good" feminists.

Title	Naomi Wolf's combat rape epidemic
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Date	June 20, 2012 3:10 PM UTC (14 years ago)
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