Alright. So for starters: here’s their data on the report fact sheet.
Nearly 23 million women and 1.7 million men have been the victims of completed or attempted rape at some point in their life.
An estimated 6.8 million men were made to penetrate another person in their lifetime
So something doesn’t add up here. Already that’s nowhere near a 50/50 split of victims by sex, and that doesn’t even cover the sex of the perpetrators of these rapes. Let’s go see what those tables you posted are actually saying and how they reached those numbers!
Let’s start with those tables. Let’s get a better look at them:
The first thing that leaps out to me is this:
Now I’ve proven myself to be no mathematician but I’m pretty sure 812,000 and 844,00 don’t add up to 1,473,000. In fact they add up to a bit of a higher number of 1,656,000. So it looks like these numbers were singled out.
So all together that would make the total 3,129,000 for rape in a 12 month period for women.
On the male table those two things weren’t recorded for the 12 month period because the survey writers determined it fell into their below 30% margin of error rule, so we only have the total under “rape” and then “made to penetrate”…
…which together come to 1,934,000. I trust you can tell which number is bigger.
And then there is the sex of the perpetrators:
Across all forms of sexual violence, the majority of female victims reported that their perpetrators were male. For example, state estimates of female victims of completed or attempted rape reporting only male perpetrators ranged from 91.1% to 100% (50 states), and ranged from 87.0% to 100% (50 states) for female victims of sexual coercion reporting only male perpetrators.
The majority of male victims of completed or attempted rape (86.5%) reported only male perpetrators with no statistically reliable state estimates.
The majority of male victims who were made to penetrate someone else reported only female perpetrators (78.5%), with 7 reportable state estimates ranging from 71.8% to 89.7%.
Now the remainder of their charts would take more complex math than I’m capable of (someone else is welcome to it) but looking at their final conclusive numbers of 6.8 million for made to penetrate and the collective 24.7 million of completed or attempted rape and count them together with the percentages of either sex that perpetrated the crimes that would mean men are still responsible for roughly 76.5% of all rapes according to this particular survey.
Not exactly your “it’s totally 50/50″ you were hoping this study proved for you by just cherry picking a couple of charts out of it, not actually reading them, not paying attention to the survey’s conclusion and not actually looking at the full report: [link]
Speaking of the full report, they randomly dialed 41,174 people over three years and interviewed them, though those were just the ones who completed the survey. A pretty good sample size, but still what they extrapolated from to get their numbers. They cite the definitions they’re operating on from other CDC papers but they don’t list the precise questions asked.
So can we get back on the topic of not using a passive voice when it comes to violence against women?