Eugine_Nier comments on LW Women Submissions: On Misogyny - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Pentashagon 11 April 2013 12:35:05AM 4 points [-]

It looks like A went through some significant physical and emotional abuse early and often, probably left with a PTSD or other emotional scars. I wonder how common this is, vs a more subtle version, like the academic workplace discrimination stats linked in the OP.

Something like a third of women worldwide experience domestic violence. In the U.S. over 10% of college students have reported being raped and between 15% and 20% of women report being raped during their lifetime (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_statistics, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_in_the_United_States). Compared to violence, my smart-ass guess for how many women experience discrimination some time in their life would be closer to 100%.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 11 April 2013 05:51:48AM 12 points [-]

In the U.S. over 10% of college students have reported being raped and between 15% and 20% of women report being raped during their lifetime

Eric Raymond has a post here explaining why that statistic is massively exaggerated.

Comment author: therufs 12 April 2013 04:30:29PM 7 points [-]

The statistical analysis is interesting, but the author's implicit assertion that non-forcible rape is somehow less rape-y than forcible is extremely offputting.

Comment author: OrphanWilde 12 April 2013 04:47:59PM 12 points [-]

There are necessary gradients.

I don't think my then-girlfriend waking me up with oral sex - that's sex without consent, incidentally, and she and I had a very serious conversation about that afterwards, and set some boundaries for implicit consent for future use - is the same kind of act as what is commonly thought of as rape. I certainly don't think the legal punishments should be the same.

Comment author: pragmatist 13 April 2013 02:34:56PM *  4 points [-]

I believe the the original 1 in 6 statistic comes from a national survey conducted in 1996 (not by the Colorado Coalition against Sexual Violence, pace ESR), in which 17.6 % of the surveyed women said they had been victims of completed or attempted rape in their lifetimes. In the survey questions, rape was explicitly defined as vaginal, oral or anal penetration under force or the threat of force.

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