非常非常偶然地看到德国籍网球球星 Zverev 被前前女友爆料殴打她,让我对 domestic violence/intimate partner violence 产生一定好奇,随手去搜了一下数据。
https://ncadv.org/STATISTICS
美国的数据:
1 in 4 women and 1 in 9 men experience severe intimate partner physical violence, intimate partner contact sexual violence, and/or intimate partner stalking with impacts such as injury, fearfulness, post-traumatic stress disorder, use of victim services, contraction of sexually transmitted diseases, etc.
1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 men have been victims of severe physical violence (e.g. beating, burning, strangling) by an intimate partner in their lifetime.
然后又去搜了一下强奸数据:
https://www.nsvrc.org/statistics#:~:tex ... 0in%202018.
“Approximately 1 in 5 (21.3% or an estimated 25.5 million) women in the U.S. reported completed or attempted rape at some point in their lifetime, including completed forced penetration, attempted forced penetration, or alcohol/drug facilitated completed penetration. About 2.6% of U.S. men (an estimated 2.8 million) experienced completed or attempted rape victimization in their lifetime.
换言之,任何一个在美国生长的女孩子,她被强奸的终生几率是20%,被亲密伴侣虐待的终生几率是25%。数据大得可怕吧?These are almost certainly underreported. 真实数据几乎肯定更高。
然后我手痒搜了一下关键词 "rape reduction",看看社会对减少此类犯罪有什么政策。结果整整两页的搜索结果几乎全是 "prison rape elimiation" 方面的立法,找不到减少强奸犯罪频率的立法。我又搜了一下 "reduce sexual assault",出来的结果一半是公共卫生教育网页,另一半是警察机构教育女孩子怎样预防避免被 sexual assault,以及一个全国性民间组织 Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN)的网站。立法?严打?没有,找不到。
说到底我的最初的疑问是,how many men beat their intimate partners? 但是搜了一圈没有找到答案。
So why the fuck is this not considered a serious problem? 考虑一下美国政府过去半个世纪里花费多少资源去抓、判、关、防吸毒贩毒,群众花多少时间和精力去争吵打官司上法庭,要不要控制禁止堕胎,18周还是19周之前可以堕,11岁还是12岁开始教孩子生理卫生,男厕所女厕所能不能多修两间厕所等等问题,这些私人话题都必须搞成控制所有人民的法律和政策。与此同时——
On average, nearly 20 people per minute are physically abused by an intimate partner in the United States.
网站很“政治正确”地写,
During one year, this equates to more than 10 million women and men.
虽然我们都知道受害者比例女性远远居多,而加害者的比例男性远远占多数。
So ... why the fuck is violence against women not a priority in legislation and public policy? Maybe the truth is society does not give a shit.
Twenty fucking percent. 显然大家都无所谓。呵呵,连口号都没人喊,连 lip service 也没有,每年选举,从地方到联邦,abortion 是个全国喊到声嘶力竭每个人都不得不表态的议题。而关于大活人人身安全的问题则寂寂无声,选民也不要求政客也不开口。可见是真不在乎,包括女性群众。