http://www.ncadv.org/files/DomesticViolenceFactSheet%28National%29.pdf
A quick reference to why violence against women by men in video games is unsettling and troublesome.
This is real, this is rarely actually addressed, and it should be handled in fiction with kid gloves.
A lot of studies find gender-symmetry in domestic violence rates, but assymetry in injuries and police action. The assymetry (women being injured a lot more) is best explained purely by physical strength differences rather than belief differences: women and men hit their partners just as often, but men do more damage. e.g. there is no less violence in lesbian relationships (in fact it's slightly higher), and bisexual women actually report more assaults by their female partners than their male partners. These are real statistics, as are yours, it's not either/or, it's about looking at the big picture and not picking out just the survey responses from women - that's plain cherry picking.
http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mas2/V71-Straus_Thirty-Years-Denying-Evidence-PV_10.pdf
The answer of course is to moderate how men treat women: I'd argue that the traditional "don't hit girls" that every boy is taught from a young age attempts to do this, rather than being intended to "harm" women somehow. I know girls who used to hit boys all the time in grade school because they knew boys wouldn't hit back because of the ingrained conditioning.
Here's a source about female sexual aggression:
http://freethoughtblogs.com/hetpat/2013/09/04/the-startling-facts-on-female-sexual-aggression/
It turns out using the same survey questions on male college students etc, as female ones gives roughly the same data on which gender is most "rapey":
Anderson 1998 – Survey of 461 women (general population) 43% secured sexual acts by verbal coercion; 36.5% by getting a man intoxicated; threat of force – 27.8%, use of force – 20%; By threatening a man with a weapon – 8.9%.
Anderson, 1999 – 43% of college women admitted to using verbal or physical pressure to obtain sex
Fiebert & Tucci (1998) – 70% of male college students reported experiencing some type of harassment, pressuring, or coercion by a female
Hannon, Kunetz, Van Laar, & Williams (1996) – 10% of surveyed male college students reported experiencing a completed sexual assault perpetrated by a female intimate partner
Hogben, Byrne & Hamburger (1996) Lifetime prevalence of 24% for women having made a man engage in sexual activity against his will.
Larimer, Lydum, Anderson and Turner (1999) 20.7% of male respondents had been the recipients of unwanted sexual contact in the year prior to the survey. Verbal pressure was experienced by 7.9%, physical force by 0.6% and intoxication through alcohol or drugs by 3.6%.
Sisco, Becker, Figueredo, & Sales (2005) – A third of women reported that they had verbally harassed a person or pressured the person into performing a sexual act that the person felt uncomfortable with while roughly one in ten performed a coercive sexual act that would be considered illegal (e.g., sexual acts that involved a person who was unable or unwilling to consent)
So, the comparable survey results are pretty much gender neutral, and differences in rates can be largely explained by ability to get away with it (physical strength differences) rather than some inculcated male-only cultural artefact.
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You're joking. Are you really trying to say college age women, 1 in 4 of which will be raped and almost none of which will be taken seriously (3% of reported rapes, and most aren't reported) are convicted.
Men do get raped, women do rape, but it's just insulting to try and argue that the epidemic of rape in college is perpetrated by women against men instead of the reverse. Especially in a society where we already try to force the victims to be quiet.
I've been following this thread without posting for a while, and this response, I think, pinpoints the thing that's been bothering me. Reelya provided a link to a source which references a substantial amount peer-reviewed work based on empirical research which suggests that sexual violence is not dramatically skewed against one gender (at least among the surveyed populations). I know that it can sometimes be difficult to do proper research if you aren't on a university net, so I did a bit of a read-through and the articles I searched for were published in reputable journals and in some cases were very heavily cited in other academic work. They wouldn't have been published if the research methods weren't unbiased and as free of error as possible.
Your response was... I'm honestly not sure. Another evasion, no counterpoint with evidence of your own, and a claim that empirical research based on confidential survey data is "insulting". No offense, but that's more like the behavior I'd expect from a creationist responding to research on climate change.
When we argue like rational people, we provide evidence for our views and express our thoughts clearly. Dodging questions, cherrypicking what you want to respond to, and acting offended (I've called it that, but I don't really have a clue whether you're actually offended or just pretending to avoid responding directly) when someone brings up research that doesn't fit your worldview? Those aren't conducive to a good debate. It's not bullying or whatever to ask you respond to questions instead of dodging them, or to support your opinions with peer-reviewed research or other reputable sources of data when the people you're arguing with are also doing so, and it's helpful to the argument.
Nobody here is your enemy or trying to attack you.
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I've got basically zero interest in actually arguing this issue again, almost less than I do in arguing over U.S. politics. Plus it's vacation and I'm dog-tired.
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