Thread by @MSS3RosaFerreum

@ginakoko6 @unvarnishedvoid "[S]exual assault… is perpetrated by men 98% of the time." Are you sure about that? In all contexts? How are you defining sexual assault? I think there is some contradicting evidence to that claim that you may want to consider (or that others may be interested in considering).

@ginakoko6 @unvarnishedvoid Female prisoner guard rapists are apparently responsible for 49% of guard-on-prisoner rapes. The Office of the Inspector General for Justice Department considers rape (pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §§ 2241, 2243, and 2244) of federal inmates a huge problem.

oig.justice.gov/special/0504/i…

@ginakoko6 @unvarnishedvoid “As the statistics below indicate, the scope of the problem also includes female staff with male inmates, male staff with male inmates, and female staff with female inmates. … The following chart describes the gender breakdown of allegations investigated by the OIG…:”

@ginakoko6 @unvarnishedvoid Although male staff commits 51% of the rapes (perpetrated by staff against inmates), if you are a man, you are more likely to be raped by a woman: 47% of the rapes committed are female staff raping men and 8% of the rapes committed are male staff raping men.

@ginakoko6 @unvarnishedvoid Then there is Stemple, Lara and Ilan H Meyer. “The sexual victimization of men in America: new data challenge old assumptions” _American journal of public health_ vol. 104,6 (2014): e19-26.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

@ginakoko6 @unvarnishedvoid "[F]ederal surveys detect a high prevalence of sexual victimization among men—in many circumstances similar to the prevalence found among women."

Am J Public Health. 2014 June; 104(6): e19.

@ginakoko6 @unvarnishedvoid "[I]n 2011[,] …the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS), …found that men and women had a similar prevalence of nonconsensual sex in the previous 12 months (1.270 million women and 1.267 million men)."

Am J Public Health. 2014 June; 104(6): e19.

@ginakoko6 @unvarnishedvoid "However unintentionally, the CDC’s publications and the media coverage that followed instead highlighted female sexual victimization, reinforcing public perceptions that sexual victimization is primarily a women’s issue."

Am J Public Health. 2014 June; 104(6): e19.

@ginakoko6 @unvarnishedvoid "[T]reating male sexual victimization as a rare occurrence can impose regressive expectations about masculinity on men…. The belief that men are unlikely victims promotes a counterproductive construct of what it means to 'be a man.'"
Am J Public Health. 2014 June; 104(6): e20.

@ginakoko6 @unvarnishedvoid "[F]actors that perpetuate misperceptions about men’s sexual victimization [include]: reliance on traditional gender stereotypes, outdated and inconsistent definitions, and methodological sampling biases that exclude inmates."

Am J Public Health. 2014 June; 104(6): e19.

@ginakoko6 @unvarnishedvoid "[S]ome contemporary gender theorists have questioned the overwhelming focus on female victimization, not simply because it misses male victims but also because it serves to reinforce regressive notions of female vulnerability." Id., p. e20.

@ginakoko6 @unvarnishedvoid So @ginakoko6, what are you basing this "sexual assault… is perpetrated by men 98% of the time" figure on?

There is credible evidence that this is not only false, but in certain contexts, women may be the vast majority of rapists of both women and men.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

@ginakoko6 @unvarnishedvoid "Overreliance on [male rapist/female victim model] stigmatizes men who are victimized, risks portraying women as victims, and discourages discussion of abuse that runs counter to the paradigm, such as same-sex abuse and female perpetration of sexual victimization." Id., p. e25.

@ginakoko6 @unvarnishedvoid So @ginakoko6, what are you basing this "sexual assault… is perpetrated by men 98% of the time" figure on?

There is credible evidence that this is not only false but in certain contexts, women may be the vast majority of rapists of both women and men.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

@ginakoko6 @unvarnishedvoid Now, @ginakoko6, your statement that "sexual assault… is perpetrated by men 98% of the time" was made in the context of your earlier statement "men literally commit 80%+ of violent crimes" and your claim that "it’s on men to fix something they are socialized to do."

@ginakoko6 @unvarnishedvoid If men are socialized to be violent, why are only less than 5% of men (violent or otherwise) criminals (ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u…)? The actions of a small percentage of men (that is not a representative sample of men) do not relate to the "socialization" of men generally.