PixelMagic wrote in post #17168626
If that is even remotely true why then are women flocking to college campuses? Women are more than 60 percent of college enrollees. So why are they knowingly putting themselves at risk?
This is a joke, right?
You drive a car, right? You eat at restaurants, right? When you do those things, why are you knowingly putting yourself at risk?
PixelMagic wrote in post #17168626
The 1 in 5 statistic comes from a internet based survey of undergraduate women at 2 large public universities. In other words, since it was web based anyone could reply with the most spurious claims and there was no statistical control. Also, it is an extrapolation of behavior on thousands of campuses from a survey of just 2.
So you'd be willing to tell a woman who was raped that it's really nothing to worry about because there's not sufficient evidence that it happens frequently enough? I teach at the University of Florida and in the last month there have been four highly publicized cases of attempted sexual assaults on female students. Would you personally sit in a room with those four girls and tell them that because there are over 20,000 other female students on campus that they should just suck it up because their attacks were not statistically relevant?
This isn't a "wake up, sheeple!" situation. Sexual assault is a real problem that affects FAR too many people, yet you're attempting to convince us that we shouldn't be too bothered by its potential for lack of specific statistics. What's your end game in a conversation like this?