Gender Studies: In the US, nearly 1 in 5 women are the victims of séxual assault?

This sort of thing angers me. We have loud feminists running around saying rape in America is just as bad as the Congo. See!? The CDC says ONE IN FIVE will be raped. What the CDC is doing is dishonest.

You cannot put a brutal crime where one or more men force himself through violence on a woman in the same category as screwing while intoxicated. We can have a discussion whether such a thing is wrong and to what degree it is wrong but it is not rape. It should have a different title.

I think this trivializes rape. If a woman says she was "raped" that could mean someone had sex with her and she doesn't remember it. Another woman says she was raped and she was held down by a gang of men where they did so much damage to her she can't hold her urine any more. Putting those two in the same category is not just insulting to those who have been victims of brutality, but makes other things that anger women, like telling rape jokes, easier to do and say.

"Data" that includes unreported crimes is problematic and inconsistent depending on how the information is gathered. How do you really measure unreported crimes or determine if such finding really meet the definition of the crime? Any male or female who's had someone pat their butt could say they feel that constitutes sexual assault. It doesn't mean it would hold up in a court of law as such.

Consider the very different data put out by the Justice Department that I trust to be less biased and fortunately also indicated rape is decreasing:

"In 1979, according to a Justice Department estimate based on a wide-ranging public survey, there were 2.8 rapes for every 1,000 people. In 2004, the same survey found that the rate had decreased to 0.4 per thousand."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic...

Well I don't necessarily agree with the CDC anymore than I believe other organizations when it comes to "statistics" and actual proof. The only difference with the CDC and the other groups is that they can get the military and law to back them up when it comes to disease and serious outbreaks. So with that knowledge, I understand they are powerful and probably have the most accurate stats. I do think date rape is on the rise and many of the cases probably don't get reported at all. If anything, the CDC's stats are probably lower than what's really going on.

Feminism is constantly expanding the definition of sexual assault. Greeting a woman on the street is Harassment that will soon become a form of sexual assault.

Given the broadening definition of sexual assault, soon 100% of women will have been sexually assaulted.

I agree this could inflate rape counts. Jack and Miguel are either rapists or attempted rapists for taking advantage of women with impaired judgement. If these women later feel they have been violated, then it was rape. If not, then Jack and Miguel are in the clear, their salvation being Wanda and Maria's love and desire.

I think that number is probably low, not inflated. Honestly, most of my female friends (7 out of 10) have either been raped, or molested as a child, and I also have been. And, I'm not talking about just getting drunk and having sex. I'm talking about actual rape. One of my friends had actually been raped while walking home from work THREE times by strangers. Luckily, all three were caught and convicted...but can you imagine having that bad luck?

So when a drunk woman says no but the man proceeds anyway that is not sexual assault or rape?

When a woman is drugged and taken advantage of that is not sexual assault?

By saying that this statistic is exaggerated are you saying that women who are drunk or drugged aren't really victims?

I'm having a hard time deciphering your opinion or the point you're trying to make.

These married couples consented to these sexual acts so no assault or rape was committed. Sexual assault is defined as someone forcing another person to participate in a sexual act by using violence, drugs, or threats.

This is a statistic on SEXUAL ASSAULT and not rape and people need to realize that. And to be perfectly honest, by definition I have been sexually assaulted plenty of times at parties or bars and even places like sporting events but never reported them. So if we're being real here, the statistic could be much higher. How is it not sexual assault if I'm at a bar, yes I've had a few drinks, and some guy lifts up my skirt and exposes me, grabs my boobs or grabs my head and pushes it down to his crotch? All of which have happened to me and gone unreported. Was it not sexual assault because I had alcohol in my system?

Those stats are very flawed. How the hell would they know when they haven't surveyed 99.9% of the female population? They can add up the victims but I can tell you right now a lot of girls make up rape stories, I knew a guy who was falsely accused by a girl who was trying to break up his marriage because he hated the man's wife. I would say more like 1 in 50

It's absurd! So the CDC wants us to be like:

"Yes you can put your p in my v" every time we have sex???

Double standard: Why is the guy not the victim in these obviously consensual scenarios?

If sex while under the influence of drugs constitutes rape, then men are raped also. If they are both drunk, then they raped each other and should both spend 25 years in prison.

Oh wait. I forgot. Only men are responsible for their own actions. Silly me!