Even if this is an overstatement, it's clear that the classic "man physically overpowers woman" narrative of rape is false - both because of the gender assumptions and because rape does not always involve physical dominance.
I don't think this is really a classic narrative regarding rape. If anything, a lot of discussion of late has focused explicitly around how that's so often not the case.
It's kind of sad that sexual assault and rape are oftentimes viewed through the lens of gender-based crimes. In reality, sexual assault and rape have nothing to do with gender, and should be treated as serious problems regardless of the sex and/or gender of both the victim and perpetrator.
Sexual assault and rape are almost entirely about gender, because the effects and circumstances surrounding the crime show quite a difference between men and women; there are typically different causes and different issues to face. For example, men have to deal with the fact that they're more likely to be rasped by another man, or that if they're subject to sexual assault by a woman, that they're likely to face a "you're a man, you can't be raped" attitude. These are different challenges from those faced by women.
>men have to deal with the fact that they're more likely to be rasped by another man
Not really.
From a comment below:
One of the studies of the Bureau of Justice data notes that in a certain subset of the data, 46% of the male victims of sexual assault reported a female perpetrator.
54% vs 46% is not much of a difference. And then you have this from the article:
"Women were more likely to be abused by fellow female inmates, and men by guards, and many of those guards were female. For example, of juveniles reporting staff sexual misconduct, 89 percent were boys reporting abuse by a female staff member."
I don't think this is really a classic narrative regarding rape. If anything, a lot of discussion of late has focused explicitly around how that's so often not the case.
It's kind of sad that sexual assault and rape are oftentimes viewed through the lens of gender-based crimes. In reality, sexual assault and rape have nothing to do with gender, and should be treated as serious problems regardless of the sex and/or gender of both the victim and perpetrator.
Sexual assault and rape are almost entirely about gender, because the effects and circumstances surrounding the crime show quite a difference between men and women; there are typically different causes and different issues to face. For example, men have to deal with the fact that they're more likely to be rasped by another man, or that if they're subject to sexual assault by a woman, that they're likely to face a "you're a man, you can't be raped" attitude. These are different challenges from those faced by women.