5 ways sexual assault is really about entitlement

[JoeyT]

4. K&R

The change in the law would have made it go up, since there would be a new category being prosecuted. It's decreasing along with violent crime in general.

Murder rates have gone down too, but I rarely hear people insist everyone just calm down about that. Entire industries exist and thrive catering to peoples' fear of burglary, mugging, car theft, assault, and yes, murder, and those have been steadily decreasing. Message boards full of assholes that seem to exist solely to harrangue people concerned with and victims of those crimes about how awful they are seem to be strangely lacking. People that claim less rapes means we should be less concerned with rape aren't fooling anyone that wasn't already a fool.

On a side note: We can name dozens of cases of men or boys being raped by people in positions of authority, but even though it happens as or more often, we couldn't name nearly as many of women or girls. When it happens to men or boys, it's a scandal that rocks the nation. When it happens to women or girls, it only gets headlines if there's some "angle" that makes it newsworthy.