The National Science Foundation, the federal agency that oversees the U.S. Antarctic Program, published a report in 2022 in which 59% of women said they’d experienced harassment or assault while on the ice, and 72% of women said such behavior was a problem in Antarctica.

But the problem goes beyond the harassment, The Associated Press found. In reviewing court records and internal communications, and in interviews with more than a dozen current and former employees, the AP uncovered a pattern of women who said their claims of harassment or assault were minimized by their employers, often leading to them or others being put in further danger.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    26
    arrow-down
    16
    ·
    1 year ago

    I’m really trying to use the UK and Australia as places where people have as much freedom as they do in the US but no guns. Or do you think they’re totalitarian police states or something?

    • ColorcodedResistor@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      14
      arrow-down
      36
      ·
      1 year ago

      i was simply enforcing the fact that women need guns to prevent men from raping them. UK and Australia are dumpsites just like America. do not pretend that objects in a room make the world shitty. its what people do with those objects. ‘Mens Rea’

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        23
        arrow-down
        16
        ·
        1 year ago

        Maybe instead of arming women to stop men from raping them, we start teaching our men that masculinity does not equal sex and sex does not equal power?

        • OceanSoap@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          3
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          We do teach that. Men (and women) who rape know raping is wrong and still do it anyway.

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            2
            arrow-down
            2
            ·
            1 year ago

            You didn’t read what I wrote. You need to do more than teach that rape is wrong. You need to divorce sex from both masculinity and power.

            • OceanSoap@lemmy.ml
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              2
              ·
              1 year ago

              That will do nothing. People who get off on it aren’t going to suddenly not get off on it because you repeat a bunch of words to them. There’s never been a moment in history where rape hasn’t been desired for by a percentage of the population, and unless you’ve implemented some sort of Equalibrium-type society where everyone is force-fed regular injections that keep them compliant, it’s not happening.

              Don’t get me wrong, teaching works for most people, but not all. It’s not going to be eliminated by talking theory at them that forcing someone to submit to them sexual no longer means power.

              • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                1
                arrow-down
                1
                ·
                1 year ago

                When was that moment in history when society had previously decided to divorce sex from masculinity and power? I must have missed that in my history classes.

                • OceanSoap@lemmy.ml
                  link
                  fedilink
                  arrow-up
                  1
                  ·
                  1 year ago

                  How do you effectively take the feeling of power away from them? It doesn’t matter what society says.

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            11
            arrow-down
            12
            ·
            1 year ago

            Well, again, women are not being raped right and left in the UK and Australia. So maybe that’s not the only solution.

              • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                8
                arrow-down
                11
                ·
                1 year ago

                Please show me the difference between rape stats in the US and the UK. And don’t tell me to look it up for myself, that’s your job.

                • ColorcodedResistor@lemm.ee
                  link
                  fedilink
                  arrow-up
                  10
                  arrow-down
                  4
                  ·
                  edit-2
                  1 year ago

                  how is it my job to educate you? please explain that…because if it is my job, id rather just keep you ignorant. now that doesn’t sound very good does it? oh no!!! you’ll suddenly find the motivation to look beyond your own scope if you do your own due diligence!! curses!!!

            • ColorcodedResistor@lemm.ee
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              14
              arrow-down
              13
              ·
              1 year ago

              oh you sweet summer child. i really do hope you never have to experience a traumatic event first hand. however, some of us have. and what really makes it worse is that those who haven’t been made a victim just spout how its not that bad for them because their own lives haven’t suffered through it, and it wont make sense to those people until it happens to them and that…that’s the really sad part. victim blaming. UK and Australia have just as bad rape problems as anywhere else in this world. im just struggling to find out why you want everyone to trust their safety to ths ‘social contract’ which is a layer of air and that’s it.

      • dangblingus@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        13
        arrow-down
        11
        ·
        1 year ago

        Rape doesn’t occur by strangers. Statistically speaking, it’s a family member raping a family member. Or it’s a close acquaintance. Staying strapped at all times to prevent SA isn’t reasonable.