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<blockquote data-quote="Darkwing Duck" data-source="post: 6881844" data-attributes="member: 6805686">You provided one isolated example.&nbsp; There's not much that can be learned from one data point.I do believe that sexual harassment exists against women.&nbsp; I think that's obvious.&nbsp; But, the argument was made that we shouldn't talk about male victims because of lack of documentation.&nbsp; I pointed out that the woman who wrote the original letter provided no means to fact check.You've provided a means to fact check one of her stories.&nbsp; Is that sufficient to support the claim that we shouldn't talk about male victims because of lack of documentation?If you say, &quot;yes,&quot; (which I think would be disingenuous, but *shrug*), then I give you this.&nbsp; In asking 40,000 households about rape, the National Crime Victimization Survey revealed that 38% of rape incidents were against men.&nbsp; The 2010 National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey added a category called &quot;being made to penetrate&quot; and discovered that the rates of nonconsensual sexual contact basically equalized with 1,270 million women and 1,267 million men claiming to be victims of sexual violence.&nbsp; A recent analysis of Bureau of Justice Statistics turned up that 46 percent of male victims reported a female perpetrator.&nbsp; In Juvenile Correction Facilities, 89% of sexual misconduct was reported by boys reporting abuse by a female staff member.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Darkwing Duck, post: 6881844, member: 6805686"] You provided one isolated example. There's not much that can be learned from one data point. I do believe that sexual harassment exists against women. I think that's obvious. But, the argument was made that we shouldn't talk about male victims because of lack of documentation. I pointed out that the woman who wrote the original letter provided no means to fact check. You've provided a means to fact check one of her stories. Is that sufficient to support the claim that we shouldn't talk about male victims because of lack of documentation? If you say, "yes," (which I think would be disingenuous, but *shrug*), then I give you this. In asking 40,000 households about rape, the National Crime Victimization Survey revealed that 38% of rape incidents were against men. The 2010 National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey added a category called "being made to penetrate" and discovered that the rates of nonconsensual sexual contact basically equalized with 1,270 million women and 1,267 million men claiming to be victims of sexual violence. A recent analysis of Bureau of Justice Statistics turned up that 46 percent of male victims reported a female perpetrator. In Juvenile Correction Facilities, 89% of sexual misconduct was reported by boys reporting abuse by a female staff member. [/QUOTE]

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