If you find one, you find a group cos like attracts attracts like.
I am a man. I do not know the answer to this question and it's fucking disturbing.
Edit: I spent 30 more seconds thinking about it and realized that victims who speak are heard, but almost no perpetrator thinks they're doing anything wrong.
yeah..... also male here. i.......... never really thought about this. if i dont know any rapists, that means i probably do know rapists that i dont know are rapists.
well fuck.
Nah unlikely. Rape is mostly a corruption issue i think, like sex trafficking.
This study of 12600 college students indicates that 87% of rape was committed by serial rapists , and 46% is committed by individuals who have committed 10+ rapes. overall 5% of surveyed students admitted to some form of rape while under the influence of alcohol, but 20% of women and 7% of men report being raped in the past.
The thing about a serial rapist - they must have some means of keeping women from reporting them, or getting away with it repeatably.
These people tend to use dogwhistles and form cliques, and once one gets into a position of power they get all their buddies up too to protect one another.
Letcher county is an example of a ring that got busted open recently. The rural towns judge and deputy and their buddies basically threatened and coerced underage girls and their families into fucking them and attending diddy parties. The sheriff found his daughters number in the judges phone and shot him.
Police do this regularly too in the USA, some places are better than others but the whole brotherhood and solidarity shit is basically their dogwhistle saying 'we commit crime and cover for eachother.' The louder they say it the worse they are. So naturally they attract rapists and murderers to join them, and fire out anyone that may blow the whistle on em.
Its the same thing with weinstein, epstein, diddy, in the military, and probably trump with the republican party. A ringleader gets some power, grows their sphere of influence and uses it to gate opportunity or threaten women into sex acts. Rinse and repeat for decades and decades and you get a very small percent of people spreading stds like theyre halloween candies.
And once people are in theres no getting out. Thats why epstein and diddy film everything, blackmail.
Police do this regularly too in the USA
Military too. Base towns are full of victims and systems that protect rapists. Don't go to Destin...
You know a lot of criminals.
You likely know a murderer too.
You may not know any intimately though, or you might win the people lottery and know them very very well.
The person who posted this is very angry at men, and it’s not that they may not have good reason to be … but they appear to hate men in the manner a racist hates others.
Don’t let this person make you feel bad, keep being a good person AND actually be the kind of person who would shun and call out bad people.
It's really not. If a rapist rapes several women, there's a 1xN distribution. Then they think they did nothing wrong, so they won't mention they raped someone, but that they had some fun with someone, if you don't know them well you might think they meant they had a date which what normal people do.
So, less perpetrators than victims and perpetrators either don't think they did it or they know and don't say it. It's normal for regular men not to know. I'm a man and I know of victims, not perpetrators.
This is the problem with the entire claim. Of course most men don't know rapists, in the same way that I don't know most jewel thieves, I assume they don't admit it to me.
There is one guy who I am highly suspicious of, but I have zero actual evidence other than the fact he's a really creepy dude. But I can hardly go to the police with that can I. So maybe I know one possible rapist.
Also male. Any convicted rapist I've heard of says it was consensual.
Know someone personally? No idea. I have a friend who seems to be in a healthy relationship. So... Probably not a rapist?
But in general? Hard not to hear about Trump, or Epstein these days. Pretty sure I saw a bunch of rapists reported on the news, though.
By the way, why is a guy almost never taken seriously when he says he's been sexually assaulted by a woman? Pretty sure that skew the numbers juuuussst a tad bit.
@QueenMidna@lemmy.ca would you be able to take a look over this thread when you get a chance, I think there's some potentially rulebreaking behaviour. As well, I'm wondering if potentially having more moderators for a community like this is a good idea? The OP of this thread, @LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone, moderates !womensstuff@piefed.blahaj.zone over on Blahaj and does an excellent job. That is, if she'd be willing too of course.
I, calling myself a man, know 2 rapists.
I don't know him anymore for obvious reasons.