Do men understand rape?

[Threedifferentones]

124. This OP is ridiculous.

This OP implies that women "understand" rape and men do not. However, tt is quite common for the victim blaming and slut shaming of rape victims to be other women.

Being male or female does not automatically grant one empathy, nor does it enable one to see all the reasons why a victim would be too afraid or too stressed to come forward and attempt to press charges.

Now, I certainly believe that if you take a given person who does not "understand" rape it is more likely to be a man, and if you take a given person who does "understand" that person is more likely to be a woman. But, this OP seems to imply those differences would be like >99% vs <1%, ie pretty much all women "understand" and pretty much all men don't.

Now, obviously no matter how empathetic and aware we are no one can really understand what it is like to be raped without having been assaulted. Since women are much more likely than men to be raped in this sense we can say that many more women understand the reality of a rape victim's choices than men.

Still, the OP seems oblivious to the fact that many women who have not been raped will go down the same "laundry list" of what a rape victim should do, I guess because she is under the mistaken impression that all women "get it" and pretty much all of us men don't. I don't buy that for a moment, because it clearly is not true!