“In 2022, about 442,754 women were raped or sexually assaulted in the U.S.”
If only 10% of those are rapes resulting in pregnancy, you’re looking at more than 44,000 forced births per year. And yes. In this way, it very much sucks to be a woman. I hope someone, somewhere, who reads these stark numbers stops engaging the toxic people who try and downplay women who don’t want to be alone with you, who act cautious around you, because they’re afraid.
I’m not going to say that this is just a Texas thing, but I’ve been watching a lot of true crime shows and it has absolutely shocked me how many of them occurred in Texas and Oklahoma.
Roughly one rape occurs in the United States every two minutes. About 55 rapes a day resulting in pregnancy. So there are likely upwards of 200 rapes a day total. Just in Texas.
Remember that there are more than 350,000,000 people in the US. That’s a lot of people doing a lot of things, so you’re going to see numbers like that.
It’s also worth nothing that the crime rate in the US continues to drop each year even though the media makes it seem like it’s more dangerous out there.
And not just here. Something like 3/4 of children in India are victims of sexual assault. This is really a world-wide problem that has always been there and only relatively recently are people more largely paying attention and thinking it is wrong.
The wording kind of implies that it’s only recently that people started seeing rape as a bad thing. I would argue otherwise.
I think that the people who were victims of it over the past centuries probably already thought it was a bad thing, along with anyone who cared about them. It’s not a new revelation. People have been trying to spread awareness about this happening for multiple generations.
It’s an extremely low moral bar, to be honest. Some actions are indefensible and inexcusable. Anyone who had even half of a heart would have still cared about this happening over a hundred years ago.
It’s caring about your mother/sister/daughter/friend/teacher/nurse/mechanic/niece/neighbour/cousin/welder/artist/etc. If you care at all about any of them, this should have always been important to you. It’s wanting people to not suffer.
It would be like saying that people only recently started caring when someone murders innocent people. It’s always been terrible, and the offenders have always been terrible.
The wording kind of implies that it’s only recently that people started seeing rape as a bad thing
I mean, it’s true. In most countries of the world, marital rape was both tolerated and legal 100 years ago.
It’s always been terrible, and the offenders have always been terrible.
The comment above doesn’t imply otherwise though. You may argue that most people in the past had shit ethical opinions without agreeing with those opinions.
People might have not collectively cared, specifically and especially the people who likely didn’t see half of the population as human.
The victims have always cared, was my initial main point. To claim otherwise would be to also deny the sentience of those people.
Idk if you can see it on your instance/browser, but I didn’t vote on the comment.
Added: I agree that people in general have had some level of shitty ethics though, in one way or another. Especially historically. I didn’t see it was you asking either, sorry about that lol.
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“In 2022, about 442,754 women were raped or sexually assaulted in the U.S.”
If only 10% of those are rapes resulting in pregnancy, you’re looking at more than 44,000 forced births per year. And yes. In this way, it very much sucks to be a woman. I hope someone, somewhere, who reads these stark numbers stops engaging the toxic people who try and downplay women who don’t want to be alone with you, who act cautious around you, because they’re afraid.
And that’s only what’s get reported or whatever - Which alot of victims don’t do.
And consider you only have a chance to get pregnant if it happens during or before ovulation
Looking it up, Texas is moderately above the national, 51 per 100k vs 40.
I’m not going to say that this is just a Texas thing, but I’ve been watching a lot of true crime shows and it has absolutely shocked me how many of them occurred in Texas and Oklahoma.
Truly some of the worst people in the world occupied those lands over the last 150 year or so and we are seeing the results of that.
I don’t have any friends who haven’t been at least assaulted. Mine happened when I was sleeping in my own goddamn room in my own apartment years ago.
Yeah. We need to do a whole lot to stop the rape. I have no idea what, but something.
Roughly one rape occurs in the United States every two minutes. About 55 rapes a day resulting in pregnancy. So there are likely upwards of 200 rapes a day total. Just in Texas.
Jesus christ.
I had no idea it was that bad.
Remember that there are more than 350,000,000 people in the US. That’s a lot of people doing a lot of things, so you’re going to see numbers like that.
It’s also worth nothing that the crime rate in the US continues to drop each year even though the media makes it seem like it’s more dangerous out there.
To put it in perspective, 1 in 6 women are raped in their life, so the problem is actually horrifyingly bad.
And not just here. Something like 3/4 of children in India are victims of sexual assault. This is really a world-wide problem that has always been there and only relatively recently are people more largely paying attention and thinking it is wrong.
Why was this downvoted?
The wording kind of implies that it’s only recently that people started seeing rape as a bad thing. I would argue otherwise.
I think that the people who were victims of it over the past centuries probably already thought it was a bad thing, along with anyone who cared about them. It’s not a new revelation. People have been trying to spread awareness about this happening for multiple generations.
It’s an extremely low moral bar, to be honest. Some actions are indefensible and inexcusable. Anyone who had even half of a heart would have still cared about this happening over a hundred years ago.
It’s caring about your mother/sister/daughter/friend/teacher/nurse/mechanic/niece/neighbour/cousin/welder/artist/etc. If you care at all about any of them, this should have always been important to you. It’s wanting people to not suffer.
It would be like saying that people only recently started caring when someone murders innocent people. It’s always been terrible, and the offenders have always been terrible.
I mean, it’s true. In most countries of the world, marital rape was both tolerated and legal 100 years ago.
The comment above doesn’t imply otherwise though. You may argue that most people in the past had shit ethical opinions without agreeing with those opinions.
People might have not collectively cared, specifically and especially the people who likely didn’t see half of the population as human.
The victims have always cared, was my initial main point. To claim otherwise would be to also deny the sentience of those people.
Idk if you can see it on your instance/browser, but I didn’t vote on the comment.
Added: I agree that people in general have had some level of shitty ethics though, in one way or another. Especially historically. I didn’t see it was you asking either, sorry about that lol.
I don’t know, I asked because I don’t see any good reason worth downvoting. Thanks for replying tho.