SummaryFrom this experiment, I have proven three things:
1. Case studies and research can be chosen to fit a certain person or group’s cause while others studies and research that may threaten the person or group’s cause can be left out. This is exactly what I had done in the experiment.
How would a person determine which persons or groups use case studies in discrimination? The studies usually show data in favor of their cause without promoting the possibility that such data can be reasonably disputed by an opposing party. Groups that are concerned with the benefits or rights of a single gender, ethnic group or race usually work toward finding studies and research that will benefit them in particular, and some ignore studies and research that may jeopardize their cause. Any group who labels themselves by a particular gender or race will more than likely focus only on making things better for that particular group and may even oppose others who are not of that group. Examples of groups named by genders and race are: Women’s Rights Activists, Men’s Rights Activists, National Advancement Association For Colored People, ect. This is exactly what I did in this experiment to show how a person or group can discriminate in case studies.
2. Case studies can be reasonably disputed.
Several of the subjects involved in this experiment were able to dispute all the data I had provided like I hoped they would. Their arguments were that the data had “unsupported claims,” that the data was gender-biased because of ratio differences between the sexes, and that the data -- one I hadn’t even considered -- was not recent. [The issue of the studies and research provided not being “recent” will come back to haunt you in phase two of this debate.] Studies and research that isn’t recent will be regarded as invalid by some. However, while the subjects in this experiment disputed the ‘proof’ that had been given, they provided no recent studies and research to prove that:
A. Women commit sexual crimes at equal rates as men
B. Women commit sexual crimes with the same vicious brutality as men
C. Women force their victims into sexual acts in most cases.
[This refers to female-on-male rape]
Because the subjects in this experiment failed to produce this data, this issue still remains inconclusive, and can, therefore, still be disputed with no real measure of ‘truth’ to either side.
3. Case studies cannot be considered ‘definitive truth.’
One common thing that most of the studies and research did insinuate -- even the ones that I deliberately chose not to use -- is that there is a possibility that more boys (and men, perhaps) are being sexually abused by women and not reporting it. If this is so, then none of the case studies regarding female sex offenders is ‘definitive truth’ because many female-sex-offender cases would be unaccounted for. Researchers cannot work with material they do not have. Boys and men who do not report sexual abuse by female perpetrators may be doing a great disservice to boys and men as a whole. If boys and men do not come forward about their incidences of sexual abuse by females, case studies and research will only show a dimunitive amount of females perpetrating such crimes, and furture boys and men who are sexually abused by females may find it difficult to convince others of the credibility of their claims. This is a highly controversial issue.
The question as to why these boys aren’t reporting these crimes remains unanswered. Could it be that these boys are more ashamed to come forward about sexual abuse at the hands of a female? Could it be that boys feel they will not be believed because the perpetrator is a female? Is it possible that most boys do not feel victimized and are willing subjects in the sexual act? Considering my experiences in hanging out with teenage boys when I was a teenager myself and hearing them talk about teachers they would like to “bone,” female newscasters they would like to “f***,” and other “hot” women they would like to “screw,” the latter possibility seems to be the most plausible. In fact, this excerpt from
Female Sexual Abuser: A Theory Of Loss states this:
Risen and Koss report that there were almost as many female perpetrators (42.7%) as male (53.3%), with a small proportion involving both a male and a female together (4.2%). Almost half of the females perpetrators were adolescent babysitters. Almost half of the boys involved with female perpetrators reported that they participated in the incidents voluntarily and did not feel victimized. The authors note that this suggests qualitatively different experiences were tapped in this study compared to other surveys.
Still, no one has the undisputed answer to this question. This theory can be brutally argued until the end of time because:
1. This report was made in 1987 and some would argue, like the subjects in this experiment, that date of this article is too old to be considered valid.
2. The excerpt states that
almost half of the boys involved with female perpetrators participated in the incidents voluntarily and did not feel victimized, so it could possibly mean that there were
more boys who might have felt victimized by the female perpetrators.
One the other end of this argument, one could argue that this study is biased because it did not show statistics of consent and non-consent for girl victims of sexual abuse. If studies for consent and non-consent had been done for girl victims, one could compare the ratio of underage girls who consented to sex acts with adult males to see if the ratio is lower than the ratio of the underage boys who consented to sex with adult females. If the ratio is lower, they could argue that this “fact,” blended with the “fact” that girls are sexually abused at higher rates than boys, makes girls more affected by sexual abuse than boys. Both boys’ and girls’ claims of consent and non-consent could be argued as well with the “did-someone-brainwash-them-into-thinking-they-were-traumatized” theory, therefore making their claims of non-consent suspicious. Hence, to each his own. One thing that is undisputed truth is that the law states that it is unlawful for an adult -- male or female -- the have sex with an underage child. States may vary as to what the age of consent is, but the law in its raw form remains undisputed.
Thanks to those of you who are bearing with me on this one.
---Soon, Phase Two
