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40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research (theconversation.com)
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Support for violence to resist feminism was highest among adolescent boys (28%), followed closely by adolescent girls (21%).

Perhaps most alarming: roughly 40% of boys aged 13 to 17 agreed that women lie about domestic and sexual violence.

These results raise crucial questions going forward. We don’t yet know how these views have changed over time, whether they are on the rise and what the links are between violent extremism and the negative treatment of women.

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[–] Cypher@aussie.zone 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The number of people jumping in to call adolescent boys morons for having a slightly higher response rate to a very poorly framed question is ridiculous.

The idiots here are the people who wrote the survey.

Of course women lie about domestic violence.

They lie to protect themselves. They lie out of fear.

Some women, though a vanishingly small minority, lie to weaponise the legal system against their partner.

Labelling this acknowledgment of reality, which has nuance to it, as extremist is just going to make more young men hostile to feminism.

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 2 points 1 hour ago

Yeah from how it has been worded "has there ever been a woman that lies about sexual assault" is a valid interpretation of the prompt and unsurprisingly anyone interpreting it that way will answer "yes, absolutely." Who knows how many of those people actually harbour misogynistic beliefs though.