You're the one assuming 73% of rapes can't be avoided just because they happen between people who know each other. How many of those involved drunkeness to the point of passing out? How many involved too drunk to resist? What was the definition of rape in the questionnaire? Did it include "too drunk to remember?", "wouldn't have done it if I was sober"? All of these could be deemed avoidable. Or are you just assuming all those 73% were "drugged or taken by force, no chance to escape?". How many of the relative percentage involved children? Cause we are certainly not including children in a discussion about "rape prevention advice".
If someone was too drunk to remember, they were in all likelihood too drunk to consent. 84% of victims reported physical force only. 44% of victims are under the age of 18. I can't believe you are carrying on without doing any actual research. It's embarrassing that I have to answer your pointed questions with a simple google time after time.
And whatever the real number is in terms of "unavoidability", what makes you think your simple advice for actual muggings would make most of them go away? Or are we again assuming all or most muggings are the result of someone doing something incredible stupid like crawling bambi eyed down a dark alley? I mean, personally most people I know was mugged just because they walked down some random street and stumbled into the wrong guy. What's your simple advice for that? What's the cutoff point for stopping to compare them?
This paragraph is just so ridiculous that I can't be bothered to respond to it. It's like you are being contrarian for the sake of it.
I said a gang of men, not any man.
I said don't get so drunk you pass out or can't take care of yourself, not to not get drunk.
I said watch your drink and don't take shit you don't know what is, not "avoid some super villain sleight of hand trick to slip something in your drink".
Again, this is stuff that men don't have to worry about. Women do. Because men rape women in these situations. But instead of focusing on teaching men not to rape, we teach women that they can't do things their male peers can do.
Why isn't the focus on getting men to stop raping women? Because that would be fecking pointless. They're rapists, they're not going to see some column in the Guardian and start reflecting on their morality. You seem to suggest that normal chaps are out there committing rapes, and the only reason they're doing it is because they "live in a rape culture" and haven't been "properly educated" or whatever. That somehow we can "reach out and make a difference". Get real buddy. Bad shit is out there, the only sensible thing is to try and avoid some of it. Bad people are part of society, always will be. I'm certainly not going to be ashamed for focusing on some hard facts of life.
This is just totally embarrassing. You have not done any reading about the subject at all. People aren't just born rapists. Society shapes people.
Most schools don't have sexual assault training programs.
Most victims don't report sexual assault.
Most victims feel that society and the legal system is unsympathetic.
Most victims hesitate reporting sexual assault because they don't trust the police to handle it appropriately.
There is an old study about the attitudes of 11-14 years olds. 51% of boys said it was acceptable to rape a girl if the boy had spent large amounts of money on her. 87% of boys said that it was acceptable for a man to rape his wife.
Anonymous survey of male college students. One third said that they would rape someone if they thought they could get away with it.
Look at the defenses in the Steubenville case.
Look at how Hollywood excuses the rape of a child committed by Roman Polanski.
Look at Audrie Pott or Rehtaeh Parsons.
Look at Brendan Gibbons escaping for years and Taylor Lewan (now in the NFL) threatening his roommates rape victim that if she told anyone he would rape her again.
Look at Jameis Winston winning the Heisman trophy.
Look at Savannah Dietrich or Lizzy Seeburg.
Look at the rape of an 11 year old Texas girl by 14 men.
In 2010, the US Department of Defense estimated almost 20,000 sexual assaults. There were 244 convictions.
Look at the comments of Todd Akin, Richard Mourdock, Rick Santorum, Bryan Fischer, Roger Rivard, Sharon Angle, Ron Paul, Bill O'Reilly, or Clayton Williams.
Tell me that's not a rape culture. Tell me that society doesn't influence. Tell me that it is "fecking pointless"