In the US someone is sexually assaulted every 68 seconds - the bulk of those are women and children. Nearly half of all women who are murdered are killed by current or former male domestic partners - about 3 per day in the US. Statistics may vary slightly in other places, but even in the Nordics, sexual violence primarily against women is an enourmous problem.
In 2019 Amnesty International (AI) released a report stating that “flawed legislation and widespread harmful myths and gender stereotypes have resulted in endemic impunity for rapists across the region.”
85% of American girls are sexually harassed before they are 17 - often as young as 9 or 10. I could go on and on and on, but before you spout off about what isn't taking place, you need to educate yourself about the realities, because they are horrendous.
And who do you think is perpetrating over 90% of violence against men? It's overwhelmingly being done by men.
The UN and the WHO both deem violence against women as an epidemic that needs serious attention. That doesn't mean that male violence against other men is acceptable either but the bulk of it is not perpetrated against lovers, spouses, family members, dates, and employees the way it is against women. With very rare exception every woman you know has experienced some (or many) form of sexual violence - often repeatedly since they were very young, and most often by someone they know.
None of this is a "gross exaggeration.” Educate yourself, FFS!
