TSG_Asmodeus (he, him) @ TSG_Asmodeus @lemmy.world

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Well the idea with protests like this is to shine so bright a light on it that we force governments to act. If we do that enough, we can make this happen less and less to everyone.

And so, what’s the course of action? To give all men some sterilization treatment?

Who the hell said that?

The case has put into the spotlight a growing problem with rape in France. The number of sexual assault victims in France increased by 33% in 2021 and nearly doubled from 2017, according to a government report. Women made up 89% of rape victims, while 96% of sexual violence perpetrators were men.

But out of almost 35,000 rapes recorded that year, just over 10% were prosecuted, and fewer than 5% resulted in a conviction. And the vast majority of rape or attempted rape victims − nine out of ten − never even file a complaint, the report found.

The plan is to make it so the system actually helps the victims. That's the idea. These protests bring light to the issue.

And, I promise you, the real numbers are probably scarily equal, just like with domestic abuse. Because men are definitely taught to never come forward with those.

Cool guess, stats say you're wrong.

But even if the true ratio was 1:50, what’s the solution?

See above.

Seriously this is fucking embarrassing, you're creating constant strawman arguments without any basis of anything reported.

Sorry you're getting this reaction. I am a man who was abused by women and all the support groups lead to me taking to a room full of women about it. Do men come forward less often? Yes. It would have to be like 1 in 100 men coming forward for it to be equal. I've had one other male friend who has been assaulted, but over half of the women I've been friends with have.

If it helps anyone with that being anecdotal, you have to look at the statistics of who is doing it: people in power. Just that alone means more men simply have the opportunity. Add to that that men are told sex is power, and that men who have sex often are virile, whereas women who do are slut shamed. It's getting better, but still far off.

Anyway I'll take the downvotes, but every statistic we have shown is that men are the primary antagonist in the vast majority of sexual assault against both men and women.

I'm sorry you're going through that, man, that's awful.

I'll do my best, yes.

Good luck, everyone. I genuinely hope you make it through as okay as you can.

I love Zowie mice because their shapes are incredible and they're built like tanks. One of mine is 15 years old and I still use it for work.

I'm curious what Con voters will tell themselves after we lose this. And then whatever they take after that. What do they think, internally? Is it enough for them that people they've never met suffer, or do they require it to be specific people?

Good luck everyone, I am starting to feel a very real fear.

I love that even in AI art, Trump has small hands.

Not because he's incoherent--he has been for years--it's because he's not popular.

Well, I recently lost, like, 50% of my credibility as an intellectual as I stopped smoking.

Hey, congrats!

I feel like a certain poster here is conveniently and transparently overlooking the word "DEVELOPING" in the title.

I notice the wikipedia article is still un-edited, too. Put your money where your mouth is if you're so confident.

No sci-fi wasn't an official thing, yet the title of this is 'were developing the Afro-Futurism/Black Sci-Fi genre...'

I'd say a fictional story about slaves successfully rebelling and taking over a country, narrated by a scientist, who does science things, counts.

It is ridiculous how much hair-splitting is done when it's Black culture, and I'm quite embarrassed by the attempt to claim entire wikipedia sections are 'wrong' like this.

(Not saying you're saying that, I understand we're on the same page.)

So looking up the Blake story it’s not really sci-fi at all?

You should edit the wikipedia entry then, because it disagrees with you.

"Samuel R. Delany described it as "about as close to an SF-style alternate history novel as you can get.

Further, while it incorporates elements of the fugitive slave narrative, Blake's narrator is also a scientist, whose focus on data collection and research stand in repudiation of the racial science of the day.[10] In fact, this reflects one of Delany's major themes: that Africa and its contributions to science and math were foundational to the Western world.[12]"

Speaking about wanting change and then still voting for them when the time came makes that speech irrelevant.

I think you missed my country of origin there, bud.

Also you're just bait and switching here, your original point was that 'the democrats' fought for him tooth and nail, and yet the entire time people from all over the tent of the Left were demanding he be replaced and then... he was.

You're embarrassing yourself here, just take the L and focus back on using whataboutism anytime someone chooses to back a right-of-centre candidate over a fascist one.

Democrats defended him tooth and nail.

'Democrats' aren't a monolith, there was a constant desire for change among many democratic supporters. I'm Canadian and even up here there was a desire to replace him with someone better.

Sadly in this day and age, it is not obvious sarcasm.

RIP Irony.