It doesn’t get made any simpler than this. Yes these are US stats, but do you think it’s really all that different here in Canada? Ya, neither did I.
This information is put together by Laura Bassett at The Enliven Project. Data was pulled by the FBI. Go over to their page of the details.
Not being able to add anything more to the raw power of this, I figured I’d add some tips on how to stop rape. They go as follows:
1. Dudes: Don’t rape
2. Seriously DON’T RAPE
3. Don’t joke about rape.
4. Don’t threaten rape.
5. Don’t defend rapists.
6. If your bro tells you he raped someone, report him to the police.
7. Don’t be friends with rapists. Make sure you tell the rapist that you won’t be friends with him because he is a rapist.
8. Teach your children not to rape.
9. Teach your friends not to rape.
10. DON’T RAPE
I think that about covers it.
bleatmop
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9 comments
January 10, 2013 at 6:14 pm
irate canadian man
Do you feel stupid yet? You will, if you have even a shred of human dignity, when you realize that the only reason anyone on the net is talking about this infographic is to point out how horribly biased and intentionally skewed it is. Anyone who identifies as a feminist and maintains any integrity whatsoever would be embarrassed to be associated with the willful lies and misrepresentation inherent in this chart, not to mention anyone who gives it more than a cursory glance.
Just in case you’re having some trouble catching the “errors”, here is a very simple and obvious bit of food for thought; why are all the reported rapists and rapists who went to trial, but weren’t convicted, not listed in the -literally marginalized- Falsely Accused category? why is the falsely accused category itself listed among the sum total of rapists?
Please educate yourself.
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January 10, 2013 at 6:44 pm
bleatmop
@irate canadian man : You are breaking rule number 5. Please stop being a misogynistic fucker and stop trying to marginalize rape. Assuming you can’t or won’t do that then please kindly go to some MRA web-page to find other mentally ill troglodytes to have your self masturbatory fantasy that we don’t live in a rape culture.
Good Day
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January 11, 2013 at 4:54 am
Little Orphan Funkhouser
Now now…tsk tsk…don’t disingenuously attempt to dismiss the artist known as Irate Canadian Man as a misogynist ogre for making the perfectly legitimate point that one’s credibility suffers when data/evidence utilized in support of their cause/argument amounts to complete horseshit. He’s right; the author should be embarrassed.
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January 11, 2013 at 6:49 am
irate canadian man
Thank you, L.O.F.
See, the problem with your argument bleatmop is that I am not defending rapists; I am defending people WRONGFULLY ACCUSED of rape, judiciously proven to be the case in a court of law; people who are still considered rapists regardless by this chart, and who are, as I have said, quit literally shoved to the margin in the infographic. Hell, the publishers of the damn picture have issued the closest thing we’re going to get to an actual apology in the form of a followup blog post admitting that most of the numbers they referred to were conjecture, and that they then modified those already-wrong numbers to be more favorable to their agenda.
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January 11, 2013 at 11:06 am
bleatmop
No, you two, if it is indeed two of you and not just one person trolling, should be embarrassed. You misrepresent what the follow up blog posts said. All these data points are in the middle ground of all reported studies on rape. They are valid as is the graph.
You on the other hand are not. You are the festering pustule of the rape culture ready to explode into a purulent ooze. You did not come here trying to correct anyone about a info-graphic you honestly believe to be mistaken. You came here because you read a blog post telling people not to rape and it got your sense of privilege out of order.
You don’t seem to like being told not to rape, so let me put it simply for you.
You do not have the right to anyone’s body but your own. You don’t have the right to rape people. Your little sham of an argument makes you a bad person. Your mothers would be ashamed to call you their son if their friends had just read your little diatribes here. Your arguments are bad and you should feel bad.
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January 11, 2013 at 4:51 pm
irate canadian man
That’s nice. I’m going to ignore all the vitriol and actual accusations of being a habitual rapist that your ignorant ass just threw at me, and focus on the one real point you made; that the numbers used were in the middle ground. Let’s break it on down:
The number of falsely accused in the chart is pulled from a study that states this number is between two and eight percent of total accusations. This happens to be a conservative number compared to overall results, but disregarding that, the middle of the road for this study would be 5%. The chart however lumps their chosen two into the greater pool of a thousand, rather than a hundred. Whether intentionally or not, the chart presents the falsely accused as 0.2%. That’s a far cry from even the low end of the research they cite.
How about the number of unreported rapes? Today’s post on the enliven website claims they went for a composite approach, using multiple studies. They say that some studies put the number of reported rapes between 5% and 25%, while others go as high as 50%. They used only the low end studies, and went for 10%. the middle ground on that study would actually be 15% but they are getting closer. If they had used a general average of studies as they claim to, the correct middle of the road would be closer to 30%.
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January 12, 2013 at 12:20 am
bleatmop
You really are a disingenuous turd you know that. If you cared about the numbers you would go and talk to the person that actually made them. Instead you come here and try and try and bait me into some sort of weird gotcha moment where you start talking about the margins of the numbers in a graph that wasn’t even the main body of my post. Then you bitch about receiving vitriol when the first sentence you post here is insulting.
You didn’t come here for a debate, you came here to stir a pot and prove how smart you are to yourself. Take my original advice and go to some sort of MRA website. They’ll welcome you there with open arms. I’m done with you.
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January 12, 2013 at 2:19 pm
irate canadian man
alright you waste of skin I’m done being polite. As I’ve said, I posted these corrections on the enliven blog but they have mysteriously failed to appear. I first posted here in an honest attempt to educate you about the pile of lies you were defending so that you wouldn’t make yourself look like a moron, but I see now that that isn’t even an option in your life. Since my evil penis invalidates anything I have to say, maybe you’ll be swayed by the same opinion coming from an actual feminist: http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/01/08/the_enliven_project_s_false_rape_accusations_infographic_great_intentions.html
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January 12, 2013 at 2:30 pm
bleatmop
Yes… yes… Let the butthurt flow through you.
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