Do you want to have a conversation/discussion, or do you want to play dominance games? Because it seems to me that you are much, much less interested in the actual statistics and what they convey about the state of our culture (despite your protests to the contrary) and infinitely more interested in trying to ignore the core issues under guise of caring about precision. You had ample opportunity to present the correct statistics, or to note that they reflect a shocking state of affairs in our society. Instead, you chose to focus on how it seemed to be a poor reflection on men if most 10 year olds were getting harassed. Well, a huge amount of 10 year olds are getting harassed, and sexually assaulted. As are nearly all girl-children before they reach the age of 17. While I agree that precision is important, and I've taken steps to acknowledge and rectify my mistake, it's not the only important thing. And you don't seem to actually give an honest fuck about that - as long as you can make me wrong for a slight imprecision.
If you actually cared about what was happening to girls, you could point out the error in a way that doesn't seek to discredit the entire premise (that all girls are harassed as children) -which is what you did. You scoffed at the notion that puberty begins at 10, and when I linked you data showing that this is actually the current median age, and it now often begins at 8, you didn't accept or take responsibility for your error of assumption - that I really don't know the first thing about what I'm talking about. My tone is in direct correlation to the way that I have been spoken to and treated by you. If you want to treat women disdainfully and condescendingly around their painful life experiences and expect them to be all smiles and honey, you'd better think again.
Again, I have civil and largely cordial disagreements all the time with readers and other writers. I try my best to present quality material, and when I make a mistake, I own that. But what I don't take lying down is men acting like women are lying about what it's like to grow up treated from a young age like a sexual object and them trying to minimize that - mostly because they fear it makes men look bad -which seems to be your primary concern. And although you've given lip service to caring about the actual issue, the rest of your exchanges with me indicate that what you actually care about is something else entirely.
So, let's solve this issue by avoiding each other in the future, shall we?
