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{{quote|It is commonly—and mistakenly—assumed that men who rape do so either because they are sexually aroused or because they are ''sexually frustrated'', or both. In fact, as we have seen, the motives underlying such assaults have more to do with issues of [[Chad|anger and power]] than with pleasure and desire.}}
{{quote|It is commonly—and mistakenly—assumed that men who rape do so either because they are sexually aroused or because they are ''sexually frustrated'', or both. In fact, as we have seen, the motives underlying such assaults have more to do with issues of [[Chad|anger and power]] than with pleasure and desire.}}


There is also an apparent [[Pareto principle|power law]] distribution concerning sexual offending among men. Evidence suggests that a small minority of men commit most rapes. One study on university campus rapes in the United States found that serial offenders committed more than 87% of alcohol-involved sexual assault.<ref>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331853096_Is_Campus_Rape_Primarily_a_Serial_or_One-Time_Problem_Evidence_From_a_Multicampus_Study</ref> This further supports the idea that heterosexual male rapists are generally highly sexually active men with a high level of sexual entitlement.
There is also an apparent [[Pareto principle|power law]] distribution concerning sexual offending among men. Evidence suggests that a small minority of men commit most rapes. One study on university campus rapes in the United States found that serial offenders committed more than 87% of alcohol-involved sexual assault.<ref>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331853096_Is_Campus_Rape_Primarily_a_Serial_or_One-Time_Problem_Evidence_From_a_Multicampus_Study</ref> This further supports the idea that heterosexual male rapists are generally highly sexually active men with a high level of sexual entitlement, rather than socially marginalized men.


Rapists tend to have negative views of women, endorse rape myths, and identify with a hypermasculine role,<ref>Robertiello, G., & Terry, K. J. (2007). Can we profile sex offenders? A review of sex offender typologies. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 12(5), 508–518. doi:10.1016/j.avb.2007.02.010 </ref> which does overlap with views in the [[incelosphere|incel subculture]]. The possible distinction between ‘Chad’ & ‘incel’ misogyny may be related to curvilinear sexism. Several studies have found that both high and low-mate-value men are higher in hostile sexism (overtly negative views of women) than men more at the middle of the scale of mate value, but only higher-status men compensate for this with concurrently higher benevolent sexism (having a chivalric attitude towards women that conform to typical feminine gender roles).<ref>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33890521/</ref><ref>https://bora.uib.no/bora-xmlui/handle/11250/3071027</ref> The curvilinear relationship between sexism and mate value together with the evidence that suggests rapists are generally high mate value (at least for short-term mating) suggests that rapist misogynists may more tend to be high mate value men who either lack this compensatory benevolent sexism or who direct their sexual violence more towards women who diverge from female chastity norms, while incels that are high in hostile sexism are more resentful of women due to being scorned and disregarded by women.
Rapists tend to have negative views of women, endorse rape myths, and identify with a hypermasculine role,<ref>Robertiello, G., & Terry, K. J. (2007). Can we profile sex offenders? A review of sex offender typologies. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 12(5), 508–518. doi:10.1016/j.avb.2007.02.010 </ref> which does overlap with views in the [[incelosphere|incel subculture]]. The possible distinction between ‘Chad’ & ‘incel’ misogyny may be related to curvilinear sexism. Several studies have found that both high and low-mate-value men are higher in hostile sexism (overtly negative views of women) than men more at the middle of the scale of mate value, but only higher-status men compensate for this with concurrently higher benevolent sexism (having a chivalric attitude towards women that conform to typical feminine gender roles).<ref>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33890521/</ref><ref>https://bora.uib.no/bora-xmlui/handle/11250/3071027</ref> The curvilinear relationship between sexism and mate value together with the evidence that suggests rapists are generally high mate value (at least for short-term mating) suggests that rapist misogynists may more tend to be high mate value men who either lack this compensatory benevolent sexism or who direct their sexual violence more towards women who diverge from female chastity norms, while incels that are high in hostile sexism are more resentful of women due to being scorned and disregarded by women.

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