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Originally Posted by knox
I'm sorry, I posted data there.
You should comment on it.
When I said "regular" violence, you know for a fact I meant non-sexual violence. You cannot compare the fear of being mugged with the fear of being raped.
Especially because rape happens a lot more often than murder, and in most cases, is not punished. In most cases, the victim is somehow blamed and there is no justice.
http://www.alternet.org/civil-libert...t-bite-kick-or
If you had read the data, you'd see that most men are killed outside their homes. Most women are killed inside their homes.
You'd also see that 50% of women killed in the US are killed by intimate partners, while that is 5% for men.
You'd also see that violence against women has been INCREASING.
So why has it been increasing?
I'm truly shocked at how you normalize sexual violence and the state of terror it causes.
Every time I go out and I hear some funny comment from a stranger, cat calling?
You think that's not violence? Not something to fear?
Perhaps you think it's a compiment?
For us, it's a threat. |
I didn't say mugged, I said violence. Sexual assault is a form of violence, a tragic one at that, but it is still violence all the same. If a person is beat senselessly into a coma is that not also tragic? If a person is stabbed several times is that not also tragic? If a person is shot, perhaps killed, is THAT not tragic? See where you missed my point? I am trying to say that the experience of women is not as foreign to men as you might think or are trying to say. By the way, please don't put words into my mouth. I haven't "normalized" sexual violence, but somehow it is now YOU who have seemed to "normalize" extreme violence in general. Violence of any kind, is never normal, period. If it is sexual or not, it is still wrong for the same reasons, because it is harming another person. I am not talking about getting a black eye, I am talking about serious violence, and yes, on a day to day basis men face this threat of serious violence. I do, and all you have to do is open up a fucking newspaper to find out that so do many other men and women out there. In this, we are equal, and if you can't accept that, I am sincerely sorry.
Violence = physical harm to the body, sometimes severe.
Is not sexual assault harm to the body? It is a kind of violence. Are not men also victim of random violence by other shady men the way women are victim of sexual violence by shady men? Yes. See what I am trying to say here? Again, pause, breath, and reflect, because your anger is devolving into hyperbole now
