Comment on The men vs. bear saga reaches the inevitable conclusion
klemptor@startrek.website 3 months agoLet’s be real though. If 3 million women a year encountered men and only 2 got raped, we’d never have come up with the man-vs.-bear scenario in the first place.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Depends on how much fearmongering the media does. Satanic Panic was a thing, remember.
ChocoboRocket@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Most of the “fearmongering” is actually women talking about their experiences.
When media fearmongers Rape, it’s mostly by informing the public about rapists being sentenced to very light sentences, or rapists facing no jail time, or violent rapists being released.
Either that or they outright victim blame and discuss what someone was wearing, where they were, who they were with etc, basically inferring that if she was safely at home under a man’s protection, it wouldn’t be possible for her to be raped - so look at all the safety she threw away to be reckless (outside without a male partner) and have fun (literally existing while being a
womanwalking sex organ waiting to be claimed).Cryophilia@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Most of the “fearmongering” isn’t happening because we were talking about a hypothetical situation where only two women were raped. Fuck you for implying that I don’t think rape is a real thing that happens.
ChocoboRocket@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You’re previous, brief, comment literally mentioned media fear mongering.
I’m saying that it’s not media that’s brainwashed women into believing a bogeyman exists - it’s that every woman knows someone who has been raped/roofied/sex assaulted.
There’s also the fact that girls almost always get cat called or commented on when they’re out without a male partner.