| OhNoYouDont said: The rape metric was something like 1 in 1000, which is true but there are lies, damned lies, and statistics. According to RAINN, 1 in 6 American women have been the victim of attempted or completed rape with 14.8% completed ~1 in 7 women. Sounds a lot worse than 1 in 1000 doesn't it? |
Hmm, that are disagreeing empirical data, but as in most of these cases it is basically methodology and definitions are actually creating the differences. I think the main point here is for starters the definition of rape. Also what consists of 'rape culture'. The last one basically means if society or a part of it is accepting or tolerating rape. Which is again a question of definition. What consists of accepting it. Because I'm pretty sure the actual crime is not accepted by basically everyone, but if it is asked to remove micro-aggressions from language, a lot of people will disagree and may now be categorized as accepting rape. So these explains the difference in stances.
Basically if the sides would communicate properly, there would be not much discussion, I see practically everyone agreeing over the basic stuff here, the differences are stemming from definitions and exxaggerations on both sides of discussion. Add in, that Twitter and Facebook love extreme positions more than moderate ones (meaning the extremes get more retweets, likes and so on) the polarisation of basically agreeing people is even increased. So in my opinion the whole discussion is more or less pointless and takes attention away from problems.
