In case you see MRAs using the CDC reports to argue that women commit sex crimes at the same rates as men, the first thing you need to look for are the definitions used in the questionnaires around the overlapping categories of sexual victimisation explored in the reports.
As you can see in the image, sexual coercion (
which is evalutated in both sexes) is defined as being made to have vaginal oral or anal sex as a reuslt of being pressured through the following tactics :
> Telling lies> Making promises about the future they knew were untrue> Threatening to end the relationship> Threatening to spread rumorsAsk yourself now how many men would be considered rapists by that same definition ? I would personally say more than half at least. It's quite obvious how broad this definition is and it's important to keep in mind that this question is going to be used to generate responses for other types of sexual victimization like rape and being made to penetrate (
which is why I said overlapping at the beginning)
The interesting part for the CDC reports is that even when taking into account this broad definition, which inflates the rates of assault in both sexes, the MRAs still can't ignore an important fact that is that the results show that women experience higher rate of exual victimization compared to men.
Based on the numbers provided statistics by asking each
victim of sexual contact violence and/or stalking about the sex of their perpetrator(s) in the CDC report National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey 2016/2017: Report on Victimization by Sexual Identity :
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