Dear Friends,

“Rape Culture” is a fraud. The commonly used quote, “One in five college women will be a victim of rape or sexual assault,” is a lie. Since we bust lies with the truth, we will show you how to counter this one with a simple math equation.

Start with your local college and its Clery Act report. You can use Google, or any search engine to find this information. In this example I’m using Stanford: http://www.stanford.edu/group/SUDPS/safety-report/Stanford_CrimeStats_2013.pdf

Find the number of “Forcible Sex Offenses” for one year. Include the incidents in student residences, on campus, non-campus, and on public property. Include forcible rape, forcible fondling, and other forcible offences. I’m using 2012, so the total in this example is 26.

Since we know that only about 10% of these incidents are reported, we’ll multiply this number by ten, so now we have the number 260.

Now, let’s compare that to the number of female students at Stanford that year. Again, use your search engine to find this information. https://ucomm.stanford.edu/cds/2012#enrollment

(We know that male students are also victims of rape and sexual assault, but to simplify this experiment, we are only counting women.)

Include female undergraduates and graduates, part-time and full-time. In this case, the number is 7,989.

Divide the number of victims by the number of female students. In this case we get .0325. Now, move the decimal point over two spaces to the right, and you get the percentage of female students who were victims of a forcible sex offense at Stanford in 2012: 3.25.

Three percent, even three and a quarter percent is nowhere close to the 20% fraud.

Now, please find this information on your local college, and share it far and wide.

Thanks!

teri

PS. If you live in the Los Angeles area, please contact California Senator Kevin deLeon and share your to opposition to SB 967, the CA Affirmative Consent bill! Call (213) 483-9300 or email: http://sd22.senate.ca.gov/contact/email.

Teri Stoddard, Program Director

Stop Abusive and Violent Environments

www.saveservices.org

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