Feminizem in nasilje

| 23. februar 2007 | Svet | Jure

Pred časom je cvet naše parlamentarske inteligence razdiral takšne modrosti:

“Takšno nasilje je še vedno družbeno zlo v vsej Evropi, toda po mnenju (bivšega social)demokrata Jožefa Jerovška je v sodobnem času k temu prispeval tudi borbeni feminizem, ki prav gotovo ne zmanjšuje pojavov nasilja v družini.”

Danes sem naletel na zanimiv članek, ki se ukvarja z zanimivim pojavom: v ZDA zadnja tri desetletja beležijo občutno zmanjšanje števila posilstev, ki jih zagreši mlajša populacija:

The decrease in violence is reflected in big drops in teenage rape arrests. Led by decreases of 90% in San Francisco, 85% in Orange, Riverside and Ventura counties, and 80% in Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Sacramento counties, California’s teen rape-arrest rate fell by 70% over the last three decades. Fewer teens were arrested for rape in 2005 (236) than in 1957 (331), the first year statistics were reported, in a teenage population just one-third today’s.

V nasprotju z medijsko podobo, ki demonizira današnjo mladino, statistika kaže drugačno sliko:

The three-decade decline in teenage and young-adult rape accompanies huge drops in all crimes — murder, assault, drug abuse and property — committed by youth.

In kje gre iskati razloge za padanje seksualnih deliktov, ki jih zagrešijo mladi?

The most likely explanation involves impressive generational developments. In 1970, women made up one-third of all college students (versus 57% today), earned about one-fourth of all young-adult income (versus nearly half today) and made up small fractions of doctors and lawyers (versus majorities of new entrants into these fields now). Women’s rapidly rising status and economic independence in the larger society fostered new attitudes and laws that rejected violence against women.

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