Firstly, more men are raped in the prison system every year than all of the assaults on women in general society. So men are actually more likely to be raped than women.
Secondly, the amount of men committing sexual assault is an extremely low percent. Usually multiple assaults have been committed by the same person.
So, the vast majority of men are not part of a rape culture, the vast majority of men perpetuate the belief that men who attack women are the lowest form of vermin. Even in prison, sex offenders are Kill on Sight and have to be housed separately.
Thirdly, the statistic that only 3% of rapists ever get convicted is just as easily interpreted as "only 3% of accusations against men are true".
2000 women who claimed they were drugged and raped were tested and only 2% of their bloods came back showing the presence of drugs they hadn't knowingly taken themselves. The vast majority of them came back with massive alcohol blood contents. They simply drank way more than they thought and ended up with buyers regret.
More men are victims of sexual assault and they are far more likely to be wrongly accused.
The problem with that prison “statistic” is that it’s men committing the rapes, so we’re back to square one. And even still, prison is a vacuum and an entirely unique environment which in no way should be used as a model of how free, non-criminals living in a civilized society should conduct themselves. And the rapists in prison that are highly maligned are pedophiles. Adult rapists don’t draw half the ire of pedos.
Low conviction rates are attributed to how hard it is to prove rape in a court of law. Many incidents aren’t reported right away, and there’s many reasons for that. In the absence of DNA, all you have is testimony.
Yes, the vast majority of men do not commit rape; that doesn’t mean that it isn’t happening way too often. I spent 20 years in the military, and when it finally came to light that thousands of service women had been assaulted by their brothers, the prevailing attitude was that this is unacceptable. Imagine if all the chiefs of staff and generals said “ oh well, it’s only a small percentage of men doing it, what’s the problem?” There was a cultural shift, extensive training, and it was a gut punch to say the least. But in the end, we all needed to own the problem and start looking out for eachother, even though we hadn’t done anything wrong. The problem still exists, sadly. But the increase in reports can be attributed to the fact that women are actually more comfortable reporting.
This should be no different for society as a whole. Own the problem and fix it rather than trying to dumb it down with cherry picked statistics and pretend that it’s not a big deal.
It sucks that some individuals take advantage of this, but what’s the alternative? Business as usual? Nothing changes that way.
