BYU Study visually captures a hard truth: Walking home at night is not the same for women (thelemmy.club)

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[-] ClimateStalin@hexbear.net 25 points 2 days ago

In fact they claim to have a much lower rate of sexual assault than most universities, 7.4% of female students report sexual assault vs around 19% for most schools.

Which to my eye, is 100% a lack of reporting and not a lack of assault. There’s no way in hell that Mormon men of BYU, known for joining the FBI and the Special Forces, commit a third the number of sexual assaults of the general population.

[-] ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yeah that's the issue. There's no reprecussions because of the religious and "we don't want to ruin a young man's life" reasoning.

They also punish women for reporting, basically. There's a strict mormon "honor code" that all students have to abide by. So if you are raped, but had a drink or were in a man's dorm then sorry those are not allowed - and you're admitting to those while we still have to investigate the rape allegations, so we'll punish you for your infractions while we determine of you're lying about the rape.

So, it's an open secret that there is a lot of sexual assault there and it goes unreported and there are essentially no consequences for men.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/27/us/rape-victims-brigham-young-university-honor-code-suspensions.html

https://www.npr.org/2016/04/27/475923583/brigham-young-students-claim-university-punished-rape-victims-for-reporting

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