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Guest Post: More Men Are Raped in US Than Women?

Guest Post: More Men Are Raped in US Than Women?

By tigtog November 3, 2014 4 Comments

Originally published at Echidne of the Snakes. Crossposted with permission.

You may have come across that assertion before if you have the habit of visiting MRA sites on the net. I’ve seen it, but never found any sources for it, except for fuzzy hints that it’s because of prison rape of men is not included in the general rape statistics.

Feminism Friday: Popularity of long-debunked rape myths: talk about disheartening

By tigtog March 7, 2008 23 Comments

Originally posted at Hoyden About Town The top link offered to me on Stumble-Upon for Women’s Issues is this: Through a Rapists Eyes, a page on a rape-prevention site. Unfortunately, they are propagating misinformation, pure and simple. Some of you may recognise the opening paragraphs as one of those emails that gets forwarded around the […]

Feminism Friday: two posts from Jill at Feministe on rape myths vs statistics

By tigtog February 29, 2008 23 Comments

Both of these were written in response to an op-ed in the LA Times by Heather MacDonald. Post 1: It’s Only A Myth If You Believe That Those Sluts Were Asking For It This op/ed is one of the most ridiculous I’ve read in a long, long time (and that’s pretty impressive). Heather MacDonald argues […]