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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Investigators are being sent to US research base on Antarctica to look into sexual violence concerns

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Investigators are being sent to US research base on Antarctica to look into sexual violence concerns

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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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The watchdog office overseeing the National Science Foundation is sending investigators to Antarctica's McMurdo Station after hearing concerns about the prevalence of sexual violence at the U.S. research base.
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    If anyone didn’t know, Alaska has the highest rate of sexual violence in the US.

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      I wonder if this is an effect of isolation?

      I’m curious what sort of environmental factors influence this sort of behavior.

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        Opportunism and lack of consequences

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          When help is 30+ minutes away…

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        environmental factors like it being really fucking cold 8 months out of the year?

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        Keep in mind that there’s only 700,000 people in Alaska. 14 cases are gonna show up on the national scale.

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      This is about Antarctica, the SOUTH pole, even souther than Alabama, hon. Not Alaska way up north.

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        More just making an observation about cold and isolated places. Also the whole long days/ nights thing. Helps put it into perspective for Americans.

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