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Trees soak up some of that pollution, thus making your commute cleaner!

I love the idea of dessert trees.

No, I mean actually the research shows most acquaintance rapists miscategorize their actions as seduction, when in fact what they're doing is rape.

adherence to such notions of male entitlement is particularly prevalent among individuals holding traditional patriarchal attitudes surrounding gender-specific societal roles, sexist attitudes, those who are suspicious of the opposite sex, and those who perceive violence as a legitimate means of resolving personal problems. According Polascheck and Gannon (2004), five main beliefs characterize such cognitive schemas (or implicit theories) of rapists: (a) women are dangerous, harmful and unpredictable; (b) women are sex objects; (c) (sexual) entitlement; (d) men's sexual drive is uncontrollable; and, (e) society is dangerous.

r/stoprape

We need more volunteers to make it a maxi-golden era. ;)

Do you know how to make one?

Thank you for taking the time to read it!

This is tragic.

Why?

But a lot of men swear they don't know any rapists.

But they know someone who has been "falsely accused," since most rapes are acquaintance rapes, and acquaintance rapists tend to think what they're doing is seduction. It's pretty easy to fact-check this if you ask them what happened and have a good understanding of consent. It can also help to look for other risk factors:

• Peer support of forced sex¹

• Less socially skilled

• Frequently misperceiving sexual intentions

• Over-reliance on attractiveness, rather than affective cues

• Absent fathers

• Conservative gender role beliefs

• Low empathy^{(quiz)(treatment)}

• Hostile gender role beliefs^(quiz)

• Heavy alcohol consumption

• Rape-supportive beliefs/norms

• High levels of anger at women

• Hypermasculinity

• Hostile masculinity

• Childhood adversity

• A belief that alcohol increases sexuality

• More accepting of using manipulative strategies in their relationships with women

• Earlier age at first consensual sex

• More acts of delinquency committed in adolescence

• Feeling entitled to have sex with a women with whom they have previously had sex, or who has been willing to engage in some consensual sexual activities

• Acceptance of interpersonal violence

r/stoprape

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You rock!

Aren't there alternatives to concrete that are more forgiving and less susceptible to flooding?

That looks so lovely!

You brought it up.

Also, usually guys who say she consented when she says she didn't are just objectively wrong and don't understand consent.

Researchers have found that in acquaintance rape--one of the most common types of rape--perpetrators tend to see their behavior as seduction, not rape.

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Yeah, that would generally help.

I mean, actual snow removal is nice, and iirc is one of the best predictors of how popular bike commuting is.

I've been thinking of getting of getting one for myself for the same reason.

How did she consent?

Sometimes false rape statistics are inflated because sometimes victims are forced to claim their accusation was false, like this woman "Marie".

False accusations are rare, and only 18% of false accusations even named a suspect. In fact, only 0.9% of false accusations lead to charges being filed. Some small fraction of those will lead to a conviction.

Meanwhile, only about 40% of rapes get reported to the police. So, for 90,185 rapes reported in the U.S. in 2015, there were about 135,278 that went unreported, and 811 false reports that named a specific suspect, and only 81 false reports that led to charges being filed. Since about 6% of unincarcerated men have--by their own admission--committed rape, statistically 76 innocent men had rape charges filed against them. Add to that that people are biased against rape victims, and there are orders of magnitudes more rapists who walk free than innocent "rapists" who spend any time in jail.

For context, there were 1,773x more rapes that went unreported than charges filed against innocent men. And that's just charges, not convictions.

For additional context, in 2015 there were 1,686 females murdered by males in single victim/single offender incidents. So 22x more women have been murdered by men than men who have had false rape charges filed against them.

For even more context, there are about 10x more people per year who die by strangulation by their own bedsheets than are falsely charged with rape.

And for all those who say "but accusations alone can ruin lives!" I say, then you should invest some time understanding the nuances of consent, because you've got a much higher chance of being truthfully accused of rape for sex you wrongfully believed was consensual than actually being falsely accused of rape (most rapes are acquaintance rapes, and acquaintance rapists tend to think what they're doing is seduction). But the corners of the internet that most need the advice often don't bother because they're much more interested in silencing victims than actually avoiding being accused.