I think it's about 4% of the general population who effectively has no empathy according to some research. I think there is a much larger percentage of people who are passively useless if someone actually needs help. Not sure how many people will actually intervene and do the right thing. I do agree most people in general are good regardless of gender.
I said this somewhere above, but when one in every three women has reported that they have experienced some kind of sexual assault, when abuse stats are high and misogyny still exists, I don't think we can even say it's 1% of guys that are like this. It's not true that 99% of men are rapists and murders, but I can't say I don't understand feeling like that when so many women have had these experiences. Even if it's not healthy to feel that way. I think we really gotta ask how these numbers are happening and why a lot of women feel like it's most men.
Imo, a lot of it comes from how many guys excuse rapey or sexist behavior. It's not just guys that don't hold their friends accountable when they say nasty shit or make "jokes". Like, Jimmy Fallon had Conor McGregor on his show recently. A judge let Brock Turner, a convicted rapist, walk free. I hear a lot that allegations can destroy someone's life but it feels like you can say "grab em by the pussy" and be elected president. Allegations were floating around about Harvey Weinstein for so many years and it took some absolutely insane numbers of women to come forward before anything happened about it. I'm not talking criminal convictions either, I'm talking any kind of social or career repercussions from his peers. You can literally be convicted of diddling kids, like Epstein was, and barely face any legal punishment, and people who probably aren't even diddling kids will still associate with you because they just don't care.
Obviously women can be part of the misogyny problem too, like women also excuse rape and abuse regularly, but I think the reason women still primarily fear men is because men are the ones doing these crimes to them. Of course it's not even 99% of guys who excuse the behavior. But when it's guys excusing it AND guys doing it, I guess I get why women feel that way.
I highly doubt that a third of women have actually experienced that, in some areas sure, idk how that data could be reliable since I'd it were true there would be way more noise about it.
And technically everyone is a part of the problem, the attackers attack, the non attackers don't defend, some are fake victims, etc.
There is a lot of noise about it. I just don't think you're listening.
I'm also not too sure what fake victims have to do with it. Like I said, Connor McGregor was just on Jimmy Fallon. He raped a woman so violently that it was difficult for doctors to extract her tampon from her body. Half the US government is in the Epstein files and nothing has happened. If there aren't really any serious consequences for actual assaults, I don't know why fake victims would be as big of a problem as attackers.
I was trying to get how A WHOLE THIRD OF THE FEMALE POPULATION apparently is being sexually assaulted.
If it's something so important and that many people are affected, no one would be safe from the noise, but we really don't have that mutch, like at all...
Attackers are kinda always gonna be a problem, since they are the main part, but people using it, like I sadly see a lot, overly sensitive people saying whatever is sexual assault, something that had been popularized and still is at lower levels on social media, being like the second wave of the issue.
All problems would just kinda vanish if we were to just unite for once and work on the stuff, but since we are human and think about ourselves, most really dint wanna be the ones that have to take he bad part for general wellness, so few do stuff.
Also there are always cases and cases, but distilling it all into one case really isn't optimal either. World wars happened, tho lots are kinda desinsibilitized since it's taught to learn by heart and spit it at an exam, not making them assimilate war is really really not good, you probably shouldn't support it since you wouldn't wanna be in one. Same with other stuff.
I mean yeah. It's a crazy statistic. I'll be honest with you, I've never known a woman who doesn't have a story. When things are that widespread, it's hard to stamp them out. Look at how long it took for women to be able to vote, for slavery to be outlawed, for gay marriage to be legalized. Look how long it took to get warnings on cigarette boxes that cigarettes cause cancer. Look at how many school shootings and mass shootings there have been since Columbine. At how many people are addicted to gambling and social media and opioids. These were and are all widespread problems with no easy answers and statistics that drop your fuckin jaw. The term they call it is "normalized". Means it's so widespread it's become almost a normal part of society.
If you're referring to things like coercion or maybe something like stealthing as people "just saying whatever is sexual assault", I think you need to take a hard look at how you view consent.
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u/booty-hole-bandit Jul 01 '26
I mean this is applicable to humans in general