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In reply to the discussion: Since anyone with a penis is a potential rapist there is only but one (or two) answers: [View all]antigone382
(3,682 posts)But the fact is that female children have long been considered undesirable and a waste of resources relative to male children around the world. Infanticide has been common in many parts of the world; China comes to mind, though they are not the only example of this. Even today there are places with incredibly imbalanced ratios of male to female babies, largely because of sex-selective abortion. In some areas it is as high as 150 males:100 females. In larger areas it is as high as 120:100. And the lives of women who are worked, underfed, denied access to medicine, education, political choice, and economic opportunities, who are married off as young girls or sold into the sex industry, are the lives of prisoners and slaves. Whovian's dystopian anti-male fantasy is a reality for millions of women and has been for some time.
I don't have the specific statistics handy at this time; I left such books at home. But I do have a link to a thread I made the other day that puts rape and female oppression in a global context, and I think starting with the cases I present there can provide some context that you can use as a starting point to do research on your own. http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021914217