THIS SHOULD BOTHER YOU, A LOT....

Cosmopolitan magazine recently printed a report that is breathtakingly distressing. It stopped me in my tracks....

In fairness, the sample size is small, (only 73 college aged men) but the results are still staggering...what does it say....if there is ANY validity to this study, what does it say? It says that the word ”rape” has a stigma to it that the great majority of men are not comfortable with...however, forced intercourse is something that 1/3 of these men studied would be willing to do IF they knew that they wouldn’t get caught.....ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

So, my first question is.....shouldn’t the fact that a woman is being violated, treated like an object, violently overcome, dehumanized, and certainly emotionally scarred for life....be enough of a deterrent for ANY person who considers themself to be even remotely civilized? Apparently not to 1 out of 3 in this study. These men could not only commit the rape, but live with themselves without remorse after the rape....they could go about their lives and look in the mirror while they comb their hair, attend sporting events, etc., etc., knowing that they left a girl on the ground, in a heap....raped....

If the numbers were 1 in 20 I would be distressed...just knowing that 1 in 20 men are not only misogynists (bad enough) but would carry out one of the most heinous crimes imaginable....but, knowing that 1 in 3, in THIS study, would rape is absolute confirm that testosterone is the most dangerous and degenerate drug on the planet...no other drug wreaks even a fractional level of the misery that testosterone inks....not even close.

So, you give someone opportunity, entitlement, and testosterone (Bill Cosby, Jameis Winston, to name just two) and you have the recipe for sexual violence against women.....I call that a sociopath...no doubt.

Here is a synopsis of the study:

According to one study of male students at the University of North Dakota, 1 in 3 men would rape a woman if they could get away with it.

Researchers evaluated data gathered from 73 men and found that a third said they would force a woman into sexual intercourse if they wouldn’t get caught and there wouldn’t be any consequences. Those numbers dropped when researchers explicitly used the word “rape,” but even then, 13 percent of participants said they would rape if they could.

The researchers conclude that men who say they would force sexual intercourse but not rape (despite the two being one and the same) may “not perceive his actions as rape and may even view the forced intercourse as an achievement.” The study also looked at the men’s attitudes toward women, showing that men who are more hostile toward women and have more “callous sexual attitudes” are more likely to say outright that they could commit rape. But those who say they would use force but don’t use the R-word are notably less hostile toward women, leading the researchers to suggest that “there might be different types of offenders with potential differences in underlying motivation, cognition, and/or personality traits.” The fact that many would-be rapists don’t see their hypothetical actions as “rape-rape” suggests that there’s something very wrong with the way we as a society talk about male sexuality, but also that prevention and education programs may be successful if they target the men who see forcible sex as acceptable but don’t associate it with rape.

I fear that nothing will get men to take sexual violence seriously...not unless it affects them directly......but, what social issues are more important than this...? This is not human....dogs act like this...not humans.