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In reply to the discussion: "all men are potential rapists" [View all]KitSileya
(4,035 posts)At least according to US statistics. Why would there be much news about women rapists? They make up 1 out of 100 rapists, and therefore 1 out of 100 news stories about rape if the news media treated rape by women rapists as they do rapes by men rapists, which they don't. In most cases where a woman rapes a man, men (yes, men) refuse to treat it as rape, and claim the victim should be glad he "got some." This is especially the case of statutory rape of boys, and many men even here on DU claim a woman raping a teenage boy isn't rape. I'm pretty sure that in all the threads on these cases on DU, you will find women DUers decrying it as rape, and men DUers protesting.
Oh, and by the way, my statistics are taken from this Department of Justice report:
http://bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/SOO.PDF
"[T]he characteristics of those categorized as rapists: 99 in 100 are male, 6 in 10 are white, and the average age is the early thirties." (p.V)