The assertion has always been that the rapes are not reported to the authorities -- not that knowledge of them is somehow buried. People learn or hear that it happens, but it goes unreported or charges are not pressed so it does not go into crime stats.
Also note that I specified this is said to happen with prostitutes. I never said half of ALL rapes go reported.
How does the statistic go.. something like 1 in 4 woman are raped. Looking at the crime stat, it is something like
at least half of all rapes go unreported if one actually believes that claim.
This was perpetuated among the lines of college campuses, and was very easily debunked. If it is a ridiculous claim there, then that should say something about the claim along the lines of general society.
This liberal female myth engine is causing problems, plain and simple. You have that, 'yes sometimes means no', 'eye rape', and so on.
What a lot of people don't realize is that most of all this is coming from 20 something year old college students, and has been for a long time now. These are young females who grew up copiously in a nice neighborhood and went to nice schools, in nice neighborhoods with good wealth. Then they go and get brainwashed by Liberal Arts.
They go out into the real world and everything is 'violent' and 'rape'. Nothing should 'offend' anyone and everything is an 'objectification'.
When you realize the origins, you realize it's stupidity.