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Some US government statistics about sexual violence (trigger warning) [View all]
Nearly 1 in 5 women (18.3%) and
1 in 71 men (1.4%) in the United
States have been raped at some
time in their lives, including
completed forced penetration,
attempted forced penetration,
or alcohol/drug facilitated
completed penetration.
snip:
One in 6 women (16.2%) and 1
in 19 men (5.2%) in the United
States have experienced stalking
victimization at some point
during their lifetime in which
they felt very fearful or believed
that they or someone close to
them would be harmed or killed.
http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/nisvs_report2010-a.pdf
Notice anything about the numbers re: men and women?
Who needs feminism, right? There's no rape culture...Nope.
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