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Re:XKCD's Randall Munroe on Google+ requiring your gender to... by gommm on Friday July 08, 2011 @10:54AM (#2742672)
I don't see how you arrive at the statistic of "one in five american women experiencing a rape" from 28 rapes per hundred thousand people. Even if we considered that only women were victim of rapes and that half of the incidents weren't reported, it would still amount to something like 112 rapes/100k so around 0.1%.

Anecdotically, none of my female friends were ever raped which doesn't match with your assertion that "one in five American women experiences a rape".

I do think that our culture tends to objectifying women in the medias but I don't think that rape and sexual assault is as prevalent as many people think it is... There's also a lot of paranoia due to the media looking for good sensational stories and latching on any sexual assault story they can find.

Re:XKCD's Randall Munroe on Google+ requiring your gender to... by Anechoic on Friday July 08, 2011 @11:30AM (#2742829)
Anecdotically, none of my female friends were ever raped

So far as you know.

Re:XKCD's Randall Munroe on Google+ requiring your gender to... by saulrh on Friday July 08, 2011 @02:06PM (#2743448)
I didn't go from one to the other; I should have made that more clear. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_in_the_United_States#Rape_...
Re:XKCD's Randall Munroe on Google+ requiring your gender to... by Duff on Friday July 08, 2011 @12:07PM (#2743012)
Incidence varies by community and definition. Sexual assaults are very common on college campuses.

The stereotypical scary guy with pantyhose pulled over his head is only one manifestation of rape. "Date-rape" and taking advantage of people not capable of giving consent (drunk, drugged, etc) happens all of the time.

Re:XKCD's Randall Munroe on Google+ requiring your gender to... by burgerbrain on Friday July 08, 2011 @02:24PM (#2743523)
"taking advantage of people not capable of giving consent (drunk, drugged, etc) happens all of the time."

Men are also victims of that.

Re:XKCD's Randall Munroe on Google+ requiring your gender to... by iy56 on Friday July 08, 2011 @12:33PM (#2743101)
The x/100000 is per year. The 1/5 number is over a woman's lifetime. Still seems fishy to me, though.