If this was a study of BYU students, given the rate of sexual assault on that campus specifically, this would check out extra hard.
Edit: looks like the study was based on pictures of locations from BYU and some other local universities, so I’d bet it has a sample heavily drawn from BYU undergraduates. Not that this isn’t true for women everywhere, just saying fuck BYU in particular
given the rate of sexual assault on that campus specifically
I don’t think it has a particularly high rate of sexual assault?
In fact they claim to have a much lower rate of sexual assault than most universities, 7.4% of female students report sexual assault vs around 19% for most schools.
Which to my eye, is 100% a lack of reporting and not a lack of assault. There’s no way in hell that Mormon men of BYU, known for joining the FBI and the Special Forces, commit a third the number of sexual assaults of the general population.
Yeah that’s the issue. There’s no reprecussions because of the religious and “we don’t want to ruin a young man’s life” reasoning.
They also punish women for reporting, basically. There’s a strict mormon “honor code” that all students have to abide by. So if you are raped, but had a drink or were in a man’s dorm then sorry those are not allowed - and you’re admitting to those while we still have to investigate the rape allegations, so we’ll punish you for your infractions while we determine of you’re lying about the rape.
So, it’s an open secret that there is a lot of sexual assault there and it goes unreported and there are essentially no consequences for men.
males are like moths, unable to escape the lure of the bright light
There’s sugar in that light, you can’t convince me otherwise.
I hope that with advances in drone technology, that one day soon every American has to look out at the streets like a woman.
BYU aka Breed 'em Young University
I wonder if this happens in all places or just in a specific sociopolitical environment.
Name one “sociopolitical environment” large enough to constitute a woman’s walk home at night that doesn’t have patriarchal background radiation.
Obviously intensely steeped in patriarchal background radiation but many women in China talk about how they feel perfectly safe walking home alone at night. This study would certainly look very different were it done there, or other places like Russia or the Balkan countries (extremely safe as far as violent crime goes). https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/safety-walking-alone?mapSelect=USA~CHN~RUS
Sadly these heat maps can’t represent me rapidly 180ing every 10 steps to try and catch death sneaking up on me in the dark.
Bet a lot of trans masc/men are more close to the left. Noticed my eyes also gravitated to the same spots as “women”. Be nice to see a intersectional study with this.
