According to Hoff-Sommers, the number is maybe around 5-8% from the Justice Department, but no one really knows what the absolute correct number is. What she checked was the original story by a feminist named Mary Koss who came up with the 20% number. She and some other people found Koss’s research troubling. For instance, like many feminists, Koss didn’t ask women if they were rapedd but set up a list of factors that supposedly constitute rape but didn’t involve actual sexual intercourse. Many of the feminists assume more rapes are taking place but that many women do not report them.
Then there’s the one in four college rape claim. Again people like Heather MacDonald found a lot of the claims spurious. She checked a number of campi where supposedly female coeds were being raped and found a minuscule number of rapes had actually taken place.
I usually doubt or dismiss claims made by feminists of numbers of violence against women out of hand. That is not to dismiss any violence perpetrated against women (or any other group of people.) But like many of the claims about racial prejudice and race crimes, leftist feminists simply cannot be trusted to give correct numbers about anything related to women and violence.
I usually doubt or dismiss claims made by feminists of numbers of violence against women out of hand. That is not to dismiss any violence perpetrated against women (or any other group of people.) But like many of the claims about racial prejudice and race crimes, leftist feminists simply cannot be trusted to give correct numbers about anything related to women and violence.
Thank you, driftless2! I'll be more cautious henceforth.