Let me spell this out very clearly for the hard of thinking

[KillTheTurkey]

Men commit 99% of all rapes and sexual assaults.

Men (and young men) commit 95-98% of school shootings.

Men commit 90% of all violent crime in the UK.

These are not female crimes, and should never, ever be reported - or recorded - as such. It can safely be assumed in any of the above circumstances that a male person was the perpetrator.

It's the patriarchy. Men have to be favoured. So the non-raping men need praise. 'Not all men!' 'I've got a good one!' 'Pick better men.'

OP didn't say any of that.

The offender is male, the crime is of no sex. A crime is an idea.
Ideas being concepts rather than creatures have no sex.

Unfortunately, the poster you’ve quoted has chosen to torpedo the thread by unleashing his/her extreme version of pedantry and literal-mindedness all over it. Just report if you see any more posts in this vein.

Assuming the first three points are facts (no reason the think otherwise). What is the point of the final paragraph?

in what context are you suggesting these crimes are being recorded as female based when they should be male based?

as others have said if 90% of violent crime is committed by men the other 10% is committed by not men. Are you suggesting that the other 10% should also be attributed to men even if it was committed by a female? Or is this a trans thread and I am totally missing it!?!?

I was with you on appropriately recording things.

But, no, actually, you can't "assume" that because something is usually true, that it is true in any particular case. That is a serious statistical error and a logical fallacy. You know what they say about assuming.

I have not. I agree with you and have been advising you on stronger, more accurate language you should use if you want people to acknowledge the points you are trying, but failing to get across.

I’m with you OP you are enraged at the ‘woman in a dress’ who killed so many innocent people in Canada. (Stating the obvious). I am also enraged.

But we all know this? It's not a revelation.

The report I heard on the shooting described the perpetrator as wearing a woman's dress. That's not the same as saying they were a woman. I was very surprised that they might be.

Exactly, if it is most probably, 90%+ chance a man did x crime, then the correct word to use is “presume” not “assume”

immediately in the aftermath people were warned to lock their doors against ‘a woman in a dress’. That person was still being described that way by news organisations a day later.

It can safely be assumed in any of the above circumstances that a male person was the perpetrator.

No it can't. There's a strong likelihood that the perpetrator was male but it's not a forgone conclusion.

There was a case a couple(?) of years ago of a particularly brutal murder (I think the body was dismembered) and there was a thread of people waiting for the announcement that the perpetrator was a transwoman. Which never came, because the killer was in fact a woman.

They are basically saying that all violent crimes should be assumed to have been committed by males and should be recorded as such even if a female committed them.

Apologies it was a ‘female in a dress’. If that makes any difference.

Do you genuinely believe the op is saying that crimes committed by biological women should be recorded as having been committed by biological men?

First report I heard describing the attacker was of a female with long brown hair wearing a dress.
When we got the full description, my exact words were "I fucking knew it."

Its 98% rapes actually. And this is those prosecuted. So those who feel able to come forward. Statistically men who are assaulted by women are less likely to report due to feelings of shame etc.

Also if these werent "female" crimes the statistics would be 100% of these crimes committed by men. To state that women are in prison for "lesser crimes" is ridiculous and untrue

I was same soon as i heard ‘female in a dress’.

See OP?
If you had just said we can safely presume instead of assume, you’d not be getting these very correct critiques regarding the dangers of assuming.

Crimes don't have a sex but criminals do.

It's there in black and white.

All 12 of them. Compared to 100 male prisons.

Yes exactly my point.

Whats the point of this post?

Yeah women don’t feel any shame reporting rape.