• ConcreteHalloween [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    11·
    1 hour ago

    I’m scared of becoming a public figure because of some dumb drunk Facebook posts I made 15 years ago. I don’t get how these guys who have more skeletons in the closet than Pol Pot keep thinking it’s a good idea to go into the lime light.

      • TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.todayEnglish
        17·
        2 hours ago

        Well, there have been studies that have shown that a little more than 25% of college aged men had committed sexual assault. So I’m guessing at least one in four, probably a little higher considering how crazy and criminally inclined most of them are.

          • TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.todayEnglish
            1·
            11 minutes ago

            (Koss et al., 1987; Koss, Heise, & Russo, 1994). In college and community samples, rates of self-reported rape perpetration range from 6% to 15%, and rates of sexual assault perpetration range from 22% to 57% (Abbey et al., 1998; Calhoun, Bernat, Clum, & Frame, 1997; Koss et al., 1987; Muehlenhard & Linton, 1987; Rapaport & Burkhart, 1984; Senn, Desmarais, Verberg, & Wood, 2000).

            Source

            Calhoun et al. [1997] surveyed 65 young men in a rural community in Georgia who had recently participated in a study of school-aged youth. The average age of participants was 19 and most were Caucasian. Twenty-two percent of these men (n = 14) had perpetrated some type of sexual assault based on their answers to a modified version of the SES; 6.4% had committed an act that met standard legal definitions of completed rape

            Senn et al. [2000] surveyed a representative sample of 195 men in a small Canadian city. Participants ranged in age from 19 to 82 and most were Caucasian. Using a modified version of the SES, 27% of participants reported committing some type of sexual assault; 7.7% reported committing attempted or completed rape. M

            One large noncollege study was conducted with a special population. Merrill et al. [2001] surveyed 7,850 male US navy recruits from three different locations. These men were on average 20 years of age and approximately two-thirds were Caucasian. Using a shortened form of the SES, approximately 11% of these men reported that they had committed an act that met standard legal definitions of rape.

            Source for previous three

            So yeah, there’s quite a few different studies…all of them paint a pretty dark picture. They are self reported, so the number could potentially be even higher.

          • AltMaarri [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
            14·
            2 hours ago

            Maybe this; I quote (I’m assuming I don’t need to CW given the whole thread is but I’ll edit if I’m wrong):

            Computer-assisted self-interviews were completed with a random sample of 163 unmarried Caucasian and African American men in a large metropolitan area. Almost a quarter (24.5%) of these men acknowledged committing an act since the age of 14 that met standard legal definitions of attempted or completedremoved; an additional 39% had committed another type of sexual assault involving forced sexual contact or verbal coercion

            Then again it might be this (depressing I found two candidate studies immediately with a single shitty search):

            In college and community samples, rates of self-reportedremoved perpetration range from 6% to 15%, and rates of sexual assault perpetration range from 22% to 57%

            I didn’t look at either in depth / their methodology; but I wouldn’t be surprised. I am a man and I can count on the fingers of a single hand the amount of men I’ve known in my life that didn’t feel comfortable saying objectifying stuff about women when there were none around.

          • TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.todayEnglish
            1·
            4 minutes ago

            Yeah… Definitely not a good thing. I’m a pretty masc dude who’s always gotten along better with women. I played football in school and the way those guys talked about women made me quit teamed sports.

            My best friend from highschool was the only dude I ever really got close too and they ended up transitioning about 5 years ago, we are still besties.

    • TerminalEncounter [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      4·
      1 hour ago

      Thats a weird one because he cant even fall back on being poor and that was the only way out (his parents are rich af and he went to a private boarding school as a kid)

      Its one thing to be Butler style figure, you entered it apolitically or desperately or were drafted otherwise forced - and then figured out it was evil inside. But it sounds like he knew it ahead of time and still dreamed about being a lil soldier boy regardless

  • goferking (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    8·
    3 hours ago

    Don’t forget to get someone in rhe media to be ride or die for you like Ryan Grim

    NOTE: Politico’s response to Breaking Points and Drop Site News on the gaps in reporting follows: “This story is based on extensive reporting and interviews and reflects our editorial standards. In interviews with us and in accounts she gave to other outlets, Jenny Racicot said that she told Graham Platner not to come to her home and that he nevertheless showed up there uninvited. POLITICO gave Platner and his campaign ample opportunity to respond to our reporting and to provide any information or documentation they believed contradicted it. If presented with information that materially challenges our reporting, we will report it.”

    Ryan and Saagar discuss exclusive reporting on key details missing from the Graham Platner story.

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=j8MStTYqt-M