Let me preface what I'm about to say with "I don't think you should blame a rape victim for being raped"
Having said that, the bias in that article is stunning. The definition of rape seems to be 'whatever benefits women the most at any given time' - the best part is this quote;
"It's ridiculous to think that those things make you responsible for being raped because the responsibility for rape always lies with the man who's doing it, not with the woman and the way she's been behaving."
I don't know what insults me more - that women are free from consequence, or the tacit denial of female perpetrated rape, which is part of the larger problem of feminists denying female perpetrated domestic abuse in all of it's forms. If you listen to these people, the only gender capable of violence is Men.
Looking at the study, it's clear to me that the woman quoted above, who runs the organiziation that commissioned the study, has an axe to grind - the study itself also polled men, but are any of the figures relating to men quoted in the article, or being made public? Signficantly more men stated they wouldn't report rape, and twice as many men said they wouldn't report rape out of fear of societal repercussion. Does this recieve mention at all?
And then there's the more than half of women think other women are to blame for rape - in the case of 'peforming sexual acts, getting into bed with, or getting incredibly drunk'. Every year the definition of what we call rape gets blurrier and blurrier, and we're rapidly reaching the point where if a woman decides, weeks down the road, that she regrets the hookup she had, it's rape! If consent never comes into play, if you didn't make the choices that put you where you were to a reasonable degree, then you absolutely should never be blamed for rape. But if you choose to get drunk, choose to go home with a guy, choose to give him a blow job and get into bed with him, then you're choosing to have sex, whether you feel bad about it afterward or not. To make matters worse, the sobriety of a man in these situations isn't considered seriously - the study attempted to be neutral, but the people who commissioned the studio have clearly axed men from the equation, as have the media reporting on the study in the first place. Once again, both the media and anti-rape organizations paint rape as an act that can only be perpetrated by a man, and require only men to be responsible and consider the consequences of poor decision making.
