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Former student sues LSE over its ‘gender bias’

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  • #102
    si_vis_pacem
    Registered Users Posts: 36 ✭si_vis_pacem


    Theres major problems with those statistics given that rape and sexual assault have different standards when they are applied to men and women. Most countries won't recognise anything a woman does to a man as rape, even if the same action, when the genders are reversed, would be. Also, men are taught that sex is almost always good and desiereable and that men who don't desire sex are dysfunctional, whereas women are almost taught the opposite.

    Sexual assault is a huge problem for society. But its not as gendered as argued by many feminists, nor is it a worthy prop for partiarchy theory.


  • #103
    Brixton Dazzling Warship
    Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Brixton Dazzling Warship


    si_vis_pacem wrote: »
    Theres major problems with those statistics given that rape and sexual assault have different standards when they are applied to men and women. Most countries won't recognise anything a woman does to a man as rape, even if the same action, when the genders are reversed, would be.
    The report itself shows some pretty high rates applied to men for the broader definitions (though since I was glancing at the summary I didn't read more in-depth as to what they constituted). So I think that complaint, if you're addressing it at the report I was quotng, has been handled already really.
    Sexual assault is a huge problem for society. But its not as gendered as argued by many feminists, nor is it a worthy prop for partiarchy theory.

    Probably true

    Still it is a huge problem as you say, since taking from sharrow's thread:
    AT least 70% of suspects in sex offence cases are not being prosecuted by the Director of Public Prosecutions, figures obtained by the Irish Examiner have revealed.


  • #104
    si_vis_pacem
    Registered Users Posts: 36 ✭si_vis_pacem


    Its a criticism of those studies in general, I'm not really sure its possible to get really accurate figures on something thats so skewed by culture. Is that one in particular available online? If so could you link?


  • #105
    Brixton Dazzling Warship
    Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Brixton Dazzling Warship


    si_vis_pacem wrote: »
    Its a criticism of those studies in general, I'm not really sure its possible to get really accurate figures on something thats so skewed by culture. Is that one in particular available online? If so could you link?

    http://www.oneinfour.ie/resources/all/category/public-reports/
    and the savi one is the one i was quoting
    http://www.oneinfour.ie/content/resources/savi.pdf


  • #106
    Tragedy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,056 ✭✭✭Tragedy


    Sorry to bump an old thread, but I'm following this case out of interest because despite spending a couple of hours going over it, I still can't tell if
    A)Tom Martin has a valid case
    and
    B)What his motivation(s) for pursuing it are.

    Court date scheduled for February 14th apparently, and this article has some more background on it and might be of interest.


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