UCR, NCVS, and NVAW data finds that women are between 7 and 10 times more likely to be raped than men, even when accounting for underreporting. Women are also more likely to experience serious injury after a rape and multiple rapes over the life course. Other studies show that women, unlike men, structure their lives around the fear of being raped.
That's not to minimize the rape of men at all, but for something that affects so many women (something like 1 in 6 women), piping up with "Men are raped too!" doesn't seem to effectively address any problem. Rather it seems like yet another distraction from issues that affect women primarily.
Re: just thinking out loud...
That's not to minimize the rape of men at all, but for something that affects so many women (something like 1 in 6 women), piping up with "Men are raped too!" doesn't seem to effectively address any problem. Rather it seems like yet another distraction from issues that affect women primarily.