Sexhaver problems for sure, but an interesting look at this topic nevertheless.
Whom Would You Help? The Impact of Perpetrator and Victim Gender on Bystander Behavior During a Sexual Assault
Props to the researchers for starting with the NISVS 2016 figures:
No matter what it was paired with, people almost always intervened with male-on-female sexual assault 90%+ of the time, with the only tiny exception being male participants choosing to intervene in a female-on-male scenario 89% of the time. That is just about the only victory for FM sexual assault, apart from weirdly tying with MM among female participants. It's hard to estimate how seriously we can take non-overwhelming results from such small samples, but if the latter holds, then it completely exposes foids' claims of them supposedly innately fearing men as bullshit, if it's a literal coinflip for them whether to go confront another foid in an FM scenario or confront a man in an MM scenario, not to mention them also being quite willing to confront big and strong men™ in MF scenarios.
Among the same sex scenarios, FF beat out MM by a 57/43 ratio among both male and female participants, and of course beat out FM, with 60% of female and 75% of male participants choosing to intervene in it rather than in the latter. MM loses to both scenarios with female victims, MF massively more so than FF, and weirdly ties with FM among female participants, but 73% of the male participants chose it as the scenario to intervene in when deciding between it and FM.
And of course FM loses to everything else apart from that weird tie with MM among women.
All the other stuff (perceived seriousness of the situation, sympathy for the victim and anger towards the perpetrator) follows the same pattern.
The empathy gap shown like this is pretty brutal. It really can't be overstated how much people's anger and willingness to fight the perpetrator and protect the victim melt down the moment it's not man assaulting a woman. You can clearly see why male-on-female rape is omnipresent in the media and culture in general as a universal marker of a despicable male villain or as an occurence in the (back)story of a tragic female character, while no other type of it ever shows up like that.
Whom Would You Help? The Impact of Perpetrator and Victim Gender on Bystander Behavior During a Sexual Assault
Props to the researchers for starting with the NISVS 2016 figures:
What was done here is that the participants were presented with a self-admittedly improbably scenario of two sexual assaults of different perpetrator/victim gender combination, and asked which one they'd intervene with.
The results?
No matter what it was paired with, people almost always intervened with male-on-female sexual assault 90%+ of the time, with the only tiny exception being male participants choosing to intervene in a female-on-male scenario 89% of the time. That is just about the only victory for FM sexual assault, apart from weirdly tying with MM among female participants. It's hard to estimate how seriously we can take non-overwhelming results from such small samples, but if the latter holds, then it completely exposes foids' claims of them supposedly innately fearing men as bullshit, if it's a literal coinflip for them whether to go confront another foid in an FM scenario or confront a man in an MM scenario, not to mention them also being quite willing to confront big and strong men™ in MF scenarios.
Among the same sex scenarios, FF beat out MM by a 57/43 ratio among both male and female participants, and of course beat out FM, with 60% of female and 75% of male participants choosing to intervene in it rather than in the latter. MM loses to both scenarios with female victims, MF massively more so than FF, and weirdly ties with FM among female participants, but 73% of the male participants chose it as the scenario to intervene in when deciding between it and FM.
And of course FM loses to everything else apart from that weird tie with MM among women.
All the other stuff (perceived seriousness of the situation, sympathy for the victim and anger towards the perpetrator) follows the same pattern.
Basically everything follows the "Evil, strong man, weak; innocent woman," paradigm. Everyone expects sexual assaults to be MF, to hate and be angry at the perpetrators and to be sympathetic to the victims, and the further from that a sexual assault is, the more that paradigm breaks down. MM and FF were rated as basically equally serious, yet people were angrier at the perpetrators in the former, while being more sympathetic to the victims in the latter, and in all of those measures, the difference between FM and MM/FF in the middle was even greater than that between the two same-sex scenarios and MF, showing just how brutal FM is that nobody cares about it.
The empathy gap shown like this is pretty brutal. It really can't be overstated how much people's anger and willingness to fight the perpetrator and protect the victim melt down the moment it's not man assaulting a woman. You can clearly see why male-on-female rape is omnipresent in the media and culture in general as a universal marker of a despicable male villain or as an occurence in the (back)story of a tragic female character, while no other type of it ever shows up like that.
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