5 Feet of Fury

Jim Goad: For Whom the Cat Calls

Jim Goad writes:

Statistics on “sexual harassment,” since it’s such a fluid, elastic, and rubbery term, are hard to come by—at least much harder to find than statistics on rape. And for a certain strain of these rabidly activist, crunchy-vagina psychopaths, everything leads to rape, anyway. Catcalling leads to rape, porn leads to rape, sexually themed jokes lead to rape, testosterone leads to rape, masculinity leads to rape, maleness leads to rape, and merely having a penis leads to rape—rape, rape, rape. Why, it’s as if they can’t get rape out of their purty li’l heads! But can everyone—even the crunchy vaginas—at least agree that rape is worse than catcalling? Yes? Good!

So let’s take a look at the best available statistics regarding interracial rape and sexual assault, shall we?