I have a science background and therefore do not base facts and statistics on personal conversations and anecdotal information. I offered those instances in support of all the studies I have read that state that rape is under reported. I didn’t mention those studies because you have already stated that you believe studies indicate rape is over reported.
I don’t believe men take rape/murder ‘in stride’.
I don’t know anyone personally who is indifferent to maiming and murder of men.
I can see that we must agree to disagree.
This is the quote "This is a free country, women can walk out the door and go to the same places as men, but they don’t because they do not want to suffer the same consequences that the male sex takes in stride."
Men take the consequences in stride by taking the risks of opening the door and going out into that world, rather than staying away from the risky areas.
When someone says that a bar is too dangerous, or a neighborhood is too dangerous, or a street too dangerous, I guarantee you that all of those places have plenty of men, and plenty of men die and are maimed there and they remain undeterred.
Here is some basic info on rape, this is from the liberal, feminist, Salon magazine, but it gives you a hint of what is out there.
"Measuring false allegations is all the more difficult since policies on unfounded complaints differ between jurisdictions. A Washington Post investigation in Virginia and Maryland found that nearly one in four rape reports in 1990-91 was unfounded. When contacted by the newspaper, many "victims" admitted they lied. More shocking figures come from a study by now-retired Purdue University sociologist Eugene Kanin published in Archives of Sexual Behavior in 1994. After reviewing the police records of an Indiana town, Kanin found that of 109 reports of rape filed in 1978-87, 45 -- or 41 percent -- turned out to be false, as the women themselves admitted after the investigation."
http://www.salon.com/news/1999/03/cov_10news.html
Here is another mention of studies.
"Although useful, the F.B.I. and DNA data on sex crimes result from unstructured number gathering. More informative, therefore, are the results of a focused study of the false allegation question undertaken by a team headed by Charles P McDowell (McDowell & Hibler, 1985) of the U.S. Air Force Special Studies Division. Its significance derives not only from its scholarly credentials but also its time of origin, 1984/85, a period during which rape had emerged as a major issue, but before its definition included almost any form of non-consensual sex.
The McDowell team studied 556 rape allegations. Of that total, 256 could not be conclusively verified as rape. That left 300 authenticated cases of which 220 were judged to be truthful and 80, or 27%, were judged as false. In his report Charles McDowell stated that extra rigor was applied to the investigation of potentially false allegations. To be considered false one or more of the following criteria had to be met: the victim unequivocally admitted to false allegation, indicated deception in a polygraph test, and provided a plausible recantation. Even by these strict standards, slightly more than one out of four rape charges were judged to be false.
http://www.ipt-forensics.com/journal/volume6/j6_2_4.htm