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I'll elaborate, explain and link to studies.
I meant, men are more likely to abused by women in prison than women are by men. In short, female prison officers are much more likely to sexually abuse male prisoners than male officers are to abuse female prisoners.
I believe there are several reasons for this. Toxic femininity is one. Women often don't believe that what they do is "as bad" when it comes to sexual assault. All to often I read replies on MN along the lines of "when men don't kill their partners at a rate of x a week then I'll care" etc. Because so many of us read these sentiments time and time again, we begin to believe that men are bad and whilst they maybe don't deserve to be abused, they certainly don't deserve any sympathy because we're the oppressed sex. My eldest son is a part-time bouncer (at Uni) and I'm frequently shocked by the tales he tells. Women grabbing his crotch, grabbing male customers, walking up to them and kissing them - all because we're told time and time again that men are all desperate for sex and being touched sexually and should be grateful for female interest. I think that this continues into prisons.
Another reason, I suspect is the massive imbalance between the sexes created by vocal feminists. We believe you etc. Painting women as victims of "the patriarchy" with the flipside being that men can't be victims. They're "in power".
So, links.
Although this is a study from 2005, Inmate-on-inmate sexual victimisation is significantly higher for women. 212 per 1,000 as opposed to 43 per 1,000 for men.
the perpetrators of sexual assaults against female inmates, compared to male inmates, are less likely to involve staff.
^the vast majority of perpetrators of sexual assaults were of the opposite sex to their victims"
link
it makes some very interesting reading. Maybe not for those who like act like men are a threat - Schroedinger's rapists.
So, women are more likely to be sexually assaulted by other female prisoners. Men are more likely to be sexually assaulted by female officers. Who is the threat?