Originally Posted By GrumpyGord
I think that at least a part of the problem is today's media. What isn't? The novels, movies and probably especially porn sites portray women as just ready to fall into bed with men. Read the intro to the romance novels and it portrays women as just unable to contain themselves when they see the manly physique of some man. Sometimes it requires a little bit of physical force but once they are started the women are unable to resist. Lacking the manly physique I have never encountered the problem.


I respectfully disagree with this. Media has moved away from strong man/girly women tropes. You very rarely see movies like the old Sean Connery James Bond. Disney is re-writing princess stories turning them into strong independent women.

What I think is more likely is that more and more communication is being done online as a result peoples ability for face-to-face communication has suffered. I think it is far to easy to dehumanize someone on a keyboard. It can make it harder to have true empathy needed for effective face-to-face communication.

All of that aside, it should be pointed that actual numbers of sexual assault crimes have been decreasing for quite a while. I think this issue has more to do with empowered women now wanting to freely explore the outdoors (and why shouldn't they) and a small minority of men not handling the change in demographics very well.