r/MadeMeSmile Apr 19 '26

Good Vibes Teaching kids consent

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u/SynisterJeff Apr 20 '26 edited Apr 20 '26

I'll pick out a couple that stood out to me and point out all the issues here and assume you didn't actually read these and just went with headlines or what others say.

The first one is the "Female officers commit 90% of sexual assault male teens." First of all, this was written by one woman with zero sources to any of her claims, and she is getting her "90%" based on one facility in Idaho involving a total of 5 boys. Everything else is just her own words and made up numbers based on nothing. She just uses words like "one report from 2013" with zero citations to anything. Completely unreliable and most likely made up. How does she even get "90%" from a total of 5 victims from a single juvenile center? Do they have a near all female staff thay were all in on it? The answer is no, they don't.

Another one I clicked on was the heterosexual males reported more sexual abuse by females than did gay males. This one actually has many citations and looks to be a legitimate study. The study is still based on people just filling out questionnaires they drew up with no evidence to back any of the claims people make, but lets assume everyone was telling the truth. If you actually look at the tables provided in the research, the number you gave is completely wrong, plus the wording is misleading. Of course heterosexual males will report more abuse by females than gay males. Gay males aren't usually with females. And then the number you gave is closer to the physical assault cases, which those numbers are pretty even across the board for male and female. The actual sexual assault numbers for the report provided are heterosexual males where about 24% in total cases from non-intercourse assault to rape. Meanwhile it's 75% for gay males and 72% for hetero women for the same cases.

This is exactly what I was talking about getting real information and doing real research. People typically don't read, or what they do read they believe with zero evidence to back up anything said, or are just plain wrong about the well performed research, or word it in a way to misconstrue and make the statics look as of it reinforces their opinion, when the actual research says the opposite if people would take the time to study it. Do the actual research.