Men under-report committing rape relative to women’s reports of being raped

Evidence

But the biggest difference involves outright physical rape: appreciably more women (13%) said they had been forcibly raped than men (5%) admitted to having committed this felony. But if you were to add in the “She said no, but I knew she meant yes” incidents—which I did not ask about in this study—the gap would probably close. Some men doubtless do not admit to the rapes they have committed. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2451

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the vault’s claims about male entitlement and dominance hierarchies; the she-said-no-meant-yes norm parallels how authoritarianism legitimizes coercive dominance.