<p>and a D1 college men’s team couldn’t beat a pro men’s team but what’s your point?</p>
<p>and there’s no market because it gets no press, there can’t be a market if there are hardly any televised games</p>
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<p>Eh? Anyone else see anything wrong with this statistic?</p>
<p>Yes, I learned it from my law studies class and also from multiple sources that I used in my research paper that I wrote on sexual assault. It is a legit statistic.</p>
<p>I don’t buy that statistic. That would mean at least one person from this thread would have been a rape victim…</p>
<p>[Uniform</a> Crime Reporting Program Press Release–10/13/96](<a href=“http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr95prs.htm]Uniform”>http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr95prs.htm)</p>
<p>“…in 1995 an estimated 72 of every 100,000 females in the country were reported rape victims.”</p>
<p>That’s less than .001% …?</p>
<p>Key word there: reported</p>
<p>Reported rape victims are different from actual rape victims. Most rapes go unreported.</p>
<p>Most rapes would occur in lower-class areas. Most people on this forum go to prestigious universities and are thus more unlikely to be raped. Besides, how do you know someone on this thread hasn’t been?</p>
<p>Not trying to underplay the severity of rape here but…</p>
<p>Even including unreported rapes, the number still doesn’t get anywhere near 1 in 3.</p>
<p>[Rape</a> statistics](<a href=“University Life – University of Pennsylvania”>University Life – University of Pennsylvania)</p>
<p>“Rape is called “the most underreported violent crime in America.” In a large national survey of American women, only 16% of the rapes (approximately one out of every six) had ever been reported to the police.
Rape in America: A Report to the Nation, National Victim Center, 1992”</p>
<p>Assuming that statistic is true, than you can multiply the FBI’s statistic by about 6 and about .004% of American females have been raped. I would expect the rate of unreported rapes to actually be a bit higher, but even if you multiply the FBI’s statistic by 100, that’s still less than .1% of American females.</p>
<p>And if we’re going to start talking about gender inequality in crime here, then…
<a href=“http://www.aic.gov.au/topics/violence/robbery/stats/victims.html[/url]”>http://www.aic.gov.au/topics/violence/robbery/stats/victims.html</a>
<a href=“http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/gender.htm[/url]”>http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/gender.htm</a></p>
<p>Apparently, men are twice as likely to be robbed. Also 2 out of 3 murder victims are male. Rape is terrible, but I’m pretty sure murder is bad as it gets?</p>
<p>With that said, if you want my opinion, there aren’t very many glaring inequalities between men and women, at least here in America. Doesn’t mean that things need to be fixed though; rape frequency can be dropped, salary and employment for the genders can be more equal, etc. I’m not sure if there’s much we can do about double standards (which, by the way, apply to both genders), those are more engrained into our culture and are difficult to fix.</p>
<p>…Well, I don’t think that’s accurate. Because I myself, am aware of quite a few people in my life who have been raped. And those are the ones I KNOW of. It’s really sad, but it’s actually pretty common.</p>
<p>In the link you provided, it said 1/6 women experienced some kind of rape in the study. If some didn’t report rape in the survey, it could go up to 1/3.</p>
<p>Also, don’t you find 1/6 a frightening statistic itself?</p>
<p>No one here is saying that men aren’t oppressed either. There’s a ton of different types of oppression in society. This thread was discussing the oppression women face.</p>
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<p>As far as I can see, it says 1 in 6 women who experienced rape actually reported it, not 1 in 6 women in general experiencing rape. </p>
<p>Regardless, I would agree with you that the statistics are still troublesome. Sorry for derailing the thread.</p>
<p>i disagree. it is the men who are oppressed by women. women get to choose who their mates are while men face rejection over and over again. that is oppression right there.</p>
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<p>Haha. Well, that’s one way to think of it. Another method of thinking would be that men actually get to pick, and it’s up to women to accept/reject them. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen a girl who was never the one “picked,” it’s very sad. At least men get the opportunity to approach. </p>
<p>And, with that said, I always thought that rule that girls can’t ask out the guy is stupid. It’s making prom season a lot more difficult than it should be :P</p>
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<p>Haha. I have no idea who made that rule, I told you, I didn’t like it ;)</p>
<p>It’s astonishing to me how many girls won’t approach a guy because of this rule. I wasn’t even aware of it before until I made a bunch of close female friends. With prom coming up, I hear stories from girls all the time about guys they like, how they just sit around and wait for him to ask her. I was even accused of leading a girl on; she thought I was going to ask her to prom. She was ****ed when I asked someone else… and I was just thinking “Why didn’t you just ask me yourself, instead of waiting for me to do it?” I’ve asked girls before about the rule…and they can never explain it. I think it’s just an excuse for not having the guts to approach ;)</p>
<p>Ahhhh high school drama</p>
<p>If I see a guy who I really like, I’ll approach him, I have a bf now so I don’t need to. Fortunately, I’ve never been turned down. </p>
<p>Prom is overrated, I didn’t stay with my date, we both ended up with different people, the after parties a lot better than the actual prom, big waste of money. </p>
<p>As far as the oppression it’s there you can’t deny it. Legally everyone is equal but there’s still sexism, racism, etc. That’s life and maybe with time these problems will disappear. </p>
<p>I really see no point in complaining about oppression, people need to stop acting like victims and blaming society for their problems, it’s just a scape goat. If at first you don’t succeed try, try again. If someone shuts you down or looks down upon you for superficial reasons such as your sex move on, when one door closes another opens. </p>
<p>The rape statistics are sad/scary so if you’re a woman I suggest carrying a weapon, might as well, not a gun but pepper spray should be good enough.</p>
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<p>Anyone read PG Wodehouse? Reminds me of Bertie Wooster, who kept getting engaged against his will because he was too polite to explain that, no, he really DIDN’T want to marry the girl who kept going on about how the stars are “God’s daisy chain.”</p>
<p>But I think in most cases, men can choose their mates. ^_~</p>
<p>Don’t we all choose our mates, regardless of who asks who.</p>
<p>If a guy asks me out and I say yes, he chose me and I chose him by accepting (or vice versa). </p>
<p>If you don’t want to face rejection, then maybe you should just become so irresistibly desirable that women are just throwing themselves at you.</p>
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<p>Women’s sports tend to be significantly slower than the equivalent men’s sports. Female athletes (in general) gather less media attention, since there are fewer spectacular plays than in the men’s game. </p>
<p>You can’t argue that there is a lack of attention drawn to women’s games. The WNBA was hugely hyped, and is now a joke league. You have people like Danica Patrick and Annika Sorenstam, who are at best mediocre when they compete with men, even though they get a very large share of the media coverage for their respective sports. </p>
<p>Believe it or not, people watch sports because the athletes do something that they can’t believe. Most women’s sports don’t have that huge WOW factor.</p>
<p>Also, it is stupid to compare men’s D1 college sports to women’s sport. A large percentage of the population went to one of these D1 schools, and watching an alma mater play is always going to have a big draw. You could try and argue why they don’t show women’s D1 sports (ie basketball) as much, and again, this is because the tallest player on the floor is about 6’3" and people rarely dunk. The WOW factor isn’t there.</p>
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<p>D1 college has up and coming world class athletes. people want to see that. Women’s pro sports has athletes where the best person often can’t even compete with kids. (even 14 year old boys generally beat the top WTA players, badly)</p>
<p>and you’ve got the logic backwards. they don’t publicize it because they’ll lose money that way. sports media is a business like any other and if you think that they’re sacrificing money for sexism, then you’re ■■■■■■■■.</p>
<p>and mymidon pretty much explained why there’s no market.</p>