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The number of rape cases here is hard to grasp... Holy shit.
Edit: I looked up the statistics and it's absolutely insane. "it is estimated that 734,630 people were raped (threatened, attempted, or completed) in the United States in 2018."
In a country with 330 million, that's 0.22% of the population in ONE YEAR. If your probability of not being raped in any given year is 0.9978, to see what's the likelihood to go 30 years without being raped, you take 0.9978^30 and you get 0.936 so you have a 6.4% chance to get raped in a span of 30 years. These numbers are absolutely hard to comprehend, please tell me I got the math wrong...
... WTF is wrong with humanity.
Based off the women in my life who've been comfortable enough to talk to me about it those numbers seem about right sadly. If anything they're low because I'm sure some of them don't talk to me about what's happened to them. I'm really disgusted with humanity pretty much all the time these days.
you did not do the math wrong. the current state of things is absolutely unacceptable
I was hoping I was, in my sleep deprived state, put the decimal point wrong or something, because these numbers are horrifying, and yet it's not discussed as often as other issues which are far less urgent. Before seeing this post,, I would have assumed it was an order of magnitude less common, and even then it would have been too much.
Now try the math again, but per gender... I didn't try it but I suspect a bigger number for one of them.
The numbers are harder to pin down for men. There’s a lower likelihood of reporting for one. But there’s also the fact that a lot of men don’t even realize they’ve been raped, thinking “Dude I got laid last night? Sweet.”
Even the CDC does a terrible job of reporting the numbers in my opinion. 1 in 4 women and 1 in 26 men experience attempted or completed rape. But 1 in 9 men were “made to penetrate someone” which insinuates against their will, which imho is again rape.
There’s also a problem of legal language. In many states, it’s just impossible for a man to be raped. And when it is possible, it often doesn’t include “made to penetrate” (aka forced sexual contact) as rape.
I looked it up, and saw some source saying 91% female and 9% male, but their source is really old (I can't take it and use the numbers from 2018 with it), and I'm pretty sure there are a lot more men who don't report it because of cultural garbage. I would expect it to be between 65% to 80% women victims... But my hunch might be way off...
I do remember reading that the group at the highest risk being transgender people, but I don't remember any numbers.
I'm sure if I dig deeper I'll find better data, but I'm on my phone...
Your math isn’t wrong but your premise is… which is still terrible. Once a person has been raped, they have a higher chance of being raped again. 35 times higher, in fact.
"it is estimated that 734,630 people were raped (threatened, attempted, or completed) in the United States in 2018."
Doesn't the wording of this means that this statistics doesn't count the number of rape acts that have been committed, but the number of people who've been raped that year. That means that if a person was raped 10 times that year, the number above would go up by 1. Am I misreading this?