Across all age groups and demographics people believed 26% of men who are reported as rapists go on to be to be convicted. Official statistics for 2006 show less than 10% of Garda reports led to a somebody being declared guilty — one third of those surveyed by Red C guessed this correctly.

I wonder if they asked specifically about false convictions. Perceptions tend to be pretty inflated in this area.

I completely agree. That’s how I explain all these female anti-feminists to myself: they don’t think they’re talking about themselves when they talk about how horrible women are. The rest of your argument, more specifically about rape, makes a lot of sense, too.

Ireland never had the swinging 60s or 70s due to the strangle hold the catholic church has had on this country.

Contraception was not legal until 1985.
http://www.ifpa.ie/about/hist2.html

http://thaed.journals.ie/2007/08/03/new-rape-figures-released/
Is a bit I wrote about the rates of reported assualt and the sicking lack of prosecution in Ireland where I live.

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/mhcwkfidojmh/

I think this is more pronounced amongst young people, and especially young girls, because they have not yet faced lesser forms of discrimination based on their gender that make them realise that the world doesn’t distinguish them from other women. Women are not immune to the social messages that say women are less than human or ‘other’; they just know that it doesn’t apply to them personally. To realise that in the eyes of the world you are just a woman like all those other women who you make such an effort to define yourself in opposition to is quite scary, and perhaps not something that happens when you are young.

“A lot (and remember people often under-report their more odious views in surveys) of victim blamers and rape apologists are female sadly enough. Also, verbal abuse and even physical abuse knows no gender boundaries and females can be and become the worst bullies that even in your wildest dreams you could not possibly conceive. The movies ‘Heathers’ and ‘Mean Girls’ are not that far removed from real life.”

I’m Irish, been here all my life, and I’m really surprised with these results. I don’t think the Irish are angles by any stretch, but there is a very big gap between the older and younger generations. The fact that the younger under 25’s victim blame is jaw dropping to me.

I can only say we are hopefully in a state of transition and we are leaving this behind, but here we have alot of things going for us (no creationism in schools, I had a decent sex ed, and similar). So hopefully the positives out wiegh the negatives.

Fucking assholes.

My, totally unscientific theory, is that we do not talk to young people about rape, so that they have very confused messages that come from popular culture. As they get older, they get informed or perhaps come to realise that real life and real women are much more complex than the stereotypes of tv.