My bad, it’s closer to 90% when it comes to homicides
You’re looking at conviction rates. Men are twice as likely to be convicted and receive 63% longer sentences than women for the same crimes. Quoting slanted conviction rates that are biased against men does not a solid case make. I don’t doubt that men are the majority of homicides, but it’s not NEARLY as one-sided as you’re making it out to be.
And the reason why men are the majority is simple. Men are more likely to exert violence on behalf of a woman they care about than the other way around and women are more likely to employ male assistance with the need to resolve a conflict violently than the other way around. This is why the majority of homicides with a woman involved are multiple offender homicides not single offender homicides. Even when a woman does want to kill, she’d rather get a man to help a large portion of the time.
the 99% figure is for rape
I haven’t clicked on your link yet, but I can almost certainly guarantee where you got this number from. It’s either the CDC or the BJS (or RAINN linking to the CDC and/or BJS).
The problem with those two sources? Well the National Crime Victimization Survey published by the BJS defines rape as:
“vaginal, anal, or oral penetration by the offender”
That means that when a woman forces herself onto a man against his will, it is not counted as “rape” because the offender (the woman) is not penetrating the man anally or orally. She’s forcing him to penetrate her and therefore it is not penetration by the offender and not counted as rape by the survey.
The same remains true for the CDC’s definition of rape:
As I said, I haven’t looked at your link, but now I will to see if my predictions about your source are correct.
Aaaand I was right, it’s the BJS. Wow, this is an incredibly old source. It’s not often I see the 1997/1998 report quoted when they have ones from a couple years ago. In any event, I was right. Here are some of the sources they got the rape statistics from:
So the NCVS I already covered. The definition given above seems gender neutral, but as I demonstrated with the full definition the NCVS uses, male victims who aren’t penetrated by their rapist aren’t covered.
The UCR’s definition explicitly states that forcible rape only applies to women. It should be noted that the UCR definition was updated in 2012 to be more inclusive of male victims, but it still isn’t quite as simple. I’ve gone into that in the past and won’t bog this post down with tangents.
The National Incident-Based Reporting System is gender neutral and inclusive of men, but those statistics then get sent to the UCR program, which draws from the NIBRS and several other sources.
There are a couple more sources on the next page, but they both define rape as “forcible intercourse” which is vague but still often used in a narrow way to exclude male victims.
Lucky for us, despite the CDC not including male victims of female rapists under the “rape” category, they do ask about those incidents and include them in the “made to penetrate”.
What do we find when we compare “rape” in women with “made to penetrate” in men?
In 12 months, 1.1% of men (or 1.2 million) were “made to penetrate” while within the same 12 months 1.1% (or 1.2 million) women were raped. So the rate of women being raped was equal to that of men who were made to penetrate someone. And before you try to make the claim that the “made to penetrate” category still includes mostly men doing it to other men, here’s what the study says:
For three of the other forms of sexual violence, a majority of male victims reported only female perpetrators: being made to penetrate (79.2%), sexual coercion (83.6%), and unwanted sexual contact (53.1%).
So the proportion of men raping women to women raping men might not be exactly 50/50, but it’s a lot closer to 60/40 than it is 99/1 like you claim.
Another study compiled the data from the CDC and four other federal surveys with the explicit goal of being more fair to properly counting male victims. This is what they found.
The Sexual Victimization of Men in America: New Data Challenge Old Assumptions.
We assessed 12-month prevalence and incidence data on sexual victimization in 5 federal surveys that the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted independently in 2010 through 2012. We used these data to examine the prevailing assumption that men rarely experience sexual victimization. We concluded that federal surveys detect a high prevalence of sexual victimization among men—in many circumstances similar to the prevalence found among women. We identified factors that perpetuate misperceptions about men’s sexual victimization: reliance on traditional gender stereotypes, outdated and inconsistent definitions, and methodological sampling biases that exclude inmates. We recommend changes that move beyond regressive gender assumptions, which can harm both women and men.
This other study had 7k+ participants from around the globe and looked at college aged men and women in relationships and found that 3% of men and 2.3% of women reported forced sex from their current or previous partner.
Here’s a study on US College Women’s Sexual Initiation Tactics - 12% of the respondents reported ever using any type of force strategy while 43% reported using a coercion strategy and 92% reported using a seduction strategy to initiate sex.
You’re citing bad statistics because you don’t know how the terms your citing are defined.
