Sorry, everything is so horribly dark today! It might be the pouring rain. Or you know, the end of the world. Here, here is the worst story on earth, which is an anonymous survey of 1738 men on how often they have raped people in two provinces of South Africa. A full 28% of men surveyed admitted to raping women; 10% of men said they'd been raped by another man. Least surprising: half of the rapists said they had done it more than once. Okay onward with this day I guess.
Sometimes I'll try to comfort myself by believing this stuff has always gone on, but it's just because everything is publicized anymore that we're subjected, finally, to information we'd managed to avoid in the past.
I know. It's not comforting. Ignorance was bliss; and bliss wasn't all that blissful.
Oh Hey! You don't need to go to SA to get rape stats that will make your eyes bleed! Come to North Dakota!
"Staff physician Jackie Quizno says she sees rape cases several times a month. When she and other doctors turn over their information to the BIA police and federal prosecutors on the women they see, she says nothing happens."http://nativeblogs.info/blogs/skys/2008/11/22/rape-cases-on-indian-lands-go-uninvestigated/
The stats on rape in women's prisons is pretty horrifying too.
Yes, but THOSE rapes make for ze zexy late-night Cinnemaxxx!
ALSO! As with rape in men's prisons, it's a funny kinda rape, not sad, because, it seems, yu know, they're in prison so they must deserve it, right?
Right sauer, they do deserve it. HIV too. Because let's face it - stealing an insured car really is a capital offense.
Holy shit. I want to read more about this--demographics on the men surveyed, how rape was defined, etc.
(Because I love reading about rape.)
Just go to The Guardian's web site and put "rape" in the search box and you'll see a bunch of articles over the last few years about how the rate of convictions for rape in the UK is now about.....6%.
With this and the post on the failure of Obama's financial system regulatory plans The Awl should now be able to get sponsorship from a pharmaceutical company.
15 More Minutes Of Fart Jokes?
Beano.
Here's another anecdote. I was in Lesotho (surrounded completely by South Africa) a few months ago and a friend told me about summer camps they set up for young girls to give them some time away from home. Because when they're home they sometimes get raped ON THE WAY TO THE OUT HOUSE.
That's like a decent batting average
/sorry, I love baseball :(