To be utterly disappointed, but not surprised at uni sexual assault levels

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Has anyone else seen this article today and found it an unbearable read...

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/society/2021/oct/29/research-reveals-rapes-and-assaults-admitted-to-by-male-uk-students

Surely, there's something we're doing badly wrong with our boys from a young age if circa 10% grow up to be sexual deviants?

Depressing!

The main factor is a lack of empathy among these men.

At uni and in general sexual offences by men/ boys against women/ girls are common and no one's really bothered. Eg see recent news about schools.

This study though- I've been commenting on a thread on fwr. I wanted to see the questions that got such a high yes rate, how they selected who to ask etc.

The study is linked in the article and I found it impenetrable.

My concern is that IF it's not watertight then it will be raised loudly and filed in. Man hating study by crazed feminists full of holes or etc. And that's really unhelpful.

The reason I was ??? was the stated difference between uni men and general men. Seemed, pretty unlikely to me. So I looked and none the wiser.

Anyone looked and able to shed any light about how they got respondent sample, questions etc?

There's loads of stuff about uni assaults and their handling of them to know there's a problem. Dunno.

It's always had to know on these surveys. It's so easy to pick holes in these with respect to sampling, participants, etc. However, as a person who works in this area, I know and be aware of many such cases per year.

In my experience many/most of the accused are not students. in fact But they know where/where there are potential victims, college area pubs, accommodation, extended campus grounds, student nights out, etc. It is really is predatory behavior.

Regardless, here is a fairly typical post for the first weeks back in college, where I'm located (and a few people on this board know me in RL)

www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/three-students-raped-in-cork-since-colleges-re-opened-says-campaigner-1.3640659

So it is not just correct to blame male students.

But they are now up against a whole tidal wave of misogynistic, toxic ideas that are coming at him from every side, and I can’t control that. I can only keep the lines of communication open and try to help him stand up to

I think this is it really. Obviously mothers of boys have a lot of responsibility. But ultimately a man’s mother is just one woman in a patriarchal, misogynistic society.

There was a thread on this the other day. It is utterly depressing. It won't change until expressing misogynistic attitudes is as socilly unacceptable as expressing racist attitudes.