feminismiscancer

first you insist erroneously I'm a woman-- now I'm transgender. thanks for the laughs. there is clearly some projecting and/or reaction formation going on... so perhaps you are the "trannie".

thanks for your response. rape culture is real. it's an epidemic. have you seen the documentary "the hunting ground."? The stats aren't from personal experience, but to be honest I can't do the research for you, but have def done it in the past. women don't report for many reasons, largely shame and fear. many women are threatened with death, harm to family, and other threats if they tell. also, women are often treated like criminals or "sluts" if they try to report; police can be notoriously victim-blaming and even cruel. The test at the hospital, the "rape kit", is humiliating... and then having to go over and over the details to officials can be very re-traumatizing, after already going through an incredibly traumatic event. and then there's often more shaming from different officials. lots of victim-blaming.

congrats on your daughter :)

as for varying rates, I do know Native women have shockingly high rates, for many reasons... one reason is sovereign tribal law vs federal and state law, which at times can allow men to rape women unpunished.... white men raping native women on native land.. often there's a horrible legal loophole. also due to intergenerational trauma as a result of u.s. policies (genocide, kidnapping and forcing native kids to go to boarding schools where abuse was rampant) rates are higher... so many kids were forced into boarding schools and sexually abused... which makes abuse in the next generation far more likely for multiple reasons (repeating the abuse you learned as a kid, dealing with poverty and perhaps alcoholism and other things as a result of u.s. polices and the abuse, etc...)

and again the assault is so traumatic, many people dissociate during and after and do everything to push it from their mind, so going to the hospital and police and etc etc can be too much. the number of rapes that result in an actual court case is a mere fraction. also, some cultures teach that its the woman's fault, or that she is now "ruined" or "dirty". so some girls/women know they would be shamed, maybe for life, if they were to tell. or they believe they deserved it or brought it on which, of course, is never the case. they may believe, possibly for good reason, that no one will ever want to marry them.

false accusations are very rare. sadly, they get WAY more media attention than actual rapes, and then of course most rapes aren't reported, so this can give a false impression that false accusations are common and rape isn't that common, when it's exactly the opposite. for every false accusation story in the media, the number of rapes that happen without prosecution is staggering.

Nearly no one wants to lie about this kind of stuff. it is not fun.

thanks for being open-minded

you sound insane and do not sound like you're responding to anything I said. totally lost.