{"id":4079,"date":"2018-10-04T19:44:29","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T23:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=4079"},"modified":"2018-10-05T14:54:51","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T18:54:51","slug":"why-is-2018-so-scary-for-white-males","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/10\/04\/why-is-2018-so-scary-for-white-males\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is 2018 so scary for white males?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4074\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4074\" style=\"width: 296px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aw100418-12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4074\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aw100418-12-296x300.jpg\" alt=\"Why is 2018 so scary for white males?\" width=\"296\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aw100418-12-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aw100418-12-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aw100418-12.jpg 316w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4074\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Why is 2018 so scary for white males?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Tuesday, President Trump said &#8220;it\u2019s a very scary time for young men in America.&#8221; On the same day, he reiterated at a rally, \u201cThink of your son. Think of your husband,\u201d referring to false rape accusations, and also mocked Christine Blasey-Ford: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/cnn-trump-10-2-18\">bit.ly\/cnn-trump-10-2-18<\/a>. According to several studies, a range of 2-10% of rape accusations are false (<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/BC-false-reporting\">bit.ly\/BC-false-reporting<\/a>, BC login required). The Bureau of Justice Statistics (<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/BJS-crime-victim\">bit.ly\/BJS-crime-victim<\/a>) estimates a total of 323,450 rapes or sexual assaults in 2016, 23% of which (or 74,393) were reported to police. At 2-10%, a range of 1487 to 7439 might have been false accusations. It&#8217;s significant, but also a considerably lower number than rape or sexual assault. Men account for about 10% of rape victims, or about 32,000 in 2016. IOW, statistically, young men should be more worried about being raped than being falsely accused of rape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, President Trump said &#8220;it\u2019s a very scary time for young men in America.&#8221; On the same day, he reiterated at a rally, \u201cThink of your son. Think of your husband,\u201d referring to false rape accusations, and also mocked Christine Blasey-Ford: bit.ly\/cnn-trump-10-2-18. According to several studies, a range of 2-10% of rape accusations are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/10\/04\/why-is-2018-so-scary-for-white-males\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why is 2018 so scary for white males?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4079"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4094,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4079\/revisions\/4094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}