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THROW THE DAMN TOWEL!

Luckily we don't automatically.

Allpeople should do that. And yes, women should be more afraid of being raped than men should be afraid of false accusations of rape. But what both men and women should both be more afraid of than either of those things is living in a society with a justice system that doesn't abide by the...

There is no way to genuinely misconstrue the phrase "less risk averse" to mean "completely and totally without fear" That is willful misrepresentation.

I'll happily have a discussion with you if you want to talk about this stuff, I find it fascinating and have been devouring texts on the subject. But if you are going to continue on this path of adversarial communication like I am some sort of hostile witness in a trial you are trying to win...

Ok. I feel like this is a strange response because you are just restating my point. You can boil the reason for higher mortality in men down to the relatively simple concept of "Status Seeking Behavior." For example, combing through the stats a shines a strong spotlight on work-related...

You've gotten answers though. You continue to ignore them for some reason. 1. The "no means no" campaign wasextremelysuccessful; likely being a major reason for the drop in rape rates of 85% since the 70s, which is more than the drops in other violent crimes. At this point we seem to have...

Rather not talk about it

Meh, I keep a crowbar under my bed and have a few years of grappling under my belt. I feel pretty safe from being raped.

I heard it heals over like if you have pierced ears but stop wearing earrings.

Depends on the range the altercation starts. If you are already within arms reach it can be argued that a knife and/or some grappling training is better than a gun.

If there isn't a fight you can easily choke someone out without leaving a single mark on them. And since the burden of proof in our legal system is beyond a reasonable doubt feel free to choke away my good friend!

I'd also recommend any kind of grappling martial art. Getting out from under someone and choking them the fuck out is a good way for a smaller opponent to overcome a larger stronger one (e.g. Woman fighting a man).

I gave some ways like 100 posts ago At this point the best way to reduce rapes specifically is measures that reduce crime generally.

VACCINES CAUSE AUTISM!

The rate of rape and sexual assault was 1.2 times higher for nonstudents than for students.

Finally found a fucking stat for number of times per year for sex in that age range. The stat wasn't broken down by age and country, just age, but the peak of sex frequency is actually in that age range so we can assume that at its lowest the rate of sex for that age range will be at least the...

The rate goes up for those ages, but down for being on college campuses. Are you going to dig up the numbers and crunch them or do I have to?

Ha, epic triple-simulpost with the same solution.

The solution is to stop the media circus that peddles false information and generates an environment of fear unfounded in reality to make money. Americans are very safe, American women are very safe, and American woman aremore safeat college than not at college. This is reality. You can't...

Except you are saying that. The current standard of proof to be convicted of a crime is beyond a reasonable doubt. This is a purposefully high standard Ok, let's play this game. The "yes means yes" laws imply that every sex act requires documentation of consent for every sex act. But... how...

This is actually covered in a book I recently read. Women were coveted by men (by instinct I assume) and kidnapped in tribal raiding long before humans understood how reproduction worked. It is also common to do so in the few modern tribal hunter-gatherer societies that still exist. That men...

I am trying to understand what you are suggesting we do. Do we make a special exception for accusations of rape? A special court or a special set of tort (such as civil vs criminal) to handle such matters. Do we lower the burden of proof against the accused for certain crimes but not others...

This isn't actually true, one of the most common goals in tribal raiding is/was to capture women.

Except that innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable is thefundamentalprotection of any free and fair justice system against government abuse ofanyof its citizens. This is something that protects all men and all woman against abuse of the legal system by those in power, whomever they...

That is because you are jumping all over the place. Outline the scenario where you think the system is failing, then describe where and why so we can converse from a common point.

Good point, the words sociopath and psychopath aren't always quite right. A better term would be something like "anti-social behavior" as it more accurately represents the issue we are discussing.

You are misrepresenting the argument. We want to protect the rights of all non-sociopaths from the machinations of sociopaths. That is, a sociopathic male is likely to ruin an innocent woman's life by the use of sexual force, whereas a sociopathic female might instead manipulate the justice...

Unfortunately, we've reached the point where all the direct & easy solutions have been exhausted. Any further reduction to rape, like reductions to other kinds of violence, will need to be tackled at a societal level. That is we need to reduce the risk factors in society as a whole that allow...

As if I haven't pimped his books enough all over this forum, Pinker covers why this is in Better Angels. Very briefly it has to do with our "Purity" moral sense that keeps us safe from biological contamination (don't touch the poop) but can also be misapplied to generate disgust in other areas...

To any man in the western world that isn't a sociopath nodoesmean no. This hasn't always been true but then the education campaign you described happened and it was astonishingly effective as is evidenced byplunging of rapes per capita by85 percentsince the 1970s. The problem is that once...

I just said it is rape, twice, now three times. Do you want me to send you a pair of reading glasses? If you want a legal opinion about how to prosecute someone for a crime that is inherently unprovable you are better off asking a lawyer, because I have no idea. The university (beyond...

The act is non-consensual if it is coerced under the threat of force, period. Whether the coercion or even the act is provable is an entirely different ball of wax (basically in this scenario neither are.)

Of course it is. A person cannot legally give consent to anything under violence or thethreatof violence. Threats are coercion in every modern legal system. How do you not know this?

I've witnessed both versions of "what may have happened" with my own two eyes. Scenario 1 The mother of my nephew is your classic crazy bitch, she is a constant liar and a perpetual victim that lives in some strange alternate reality. I've personally broken up a fight between her and my...

The comments in that article are awesome: She sounds fun.

There are two major, mostly unsolvable, issues with doing a truly large scale M&B style game. The server itself is a theoretically solvable problem as you can scale and throw hardware at it but two things a developer can't fix are 1) c (speed of light), and 2) N^2 or to put it differently...

I was just trying to point out the the least important aspect of an MMO's success is the front end client. Compared to every other part of making an MMORPG choosing a front end has almost no impact on its success.

BGO uses an entirely proprietary backend for all the network/server stuff. Unity is only used as the client. In any MMORPG the network traffic/server is the most difficult and complex part of making the game.

Not to mention it is a ridiculous strawman of my, and many other posters', position on the matter.