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that first blog was very illuminating. I don't think you can infer that if 1 in 6 women get raped, 1 in 6 men are rapists, but I think that the blogger acknowledged this.
The whole thing is shocking - one of those things I just never think about because it doesn't affect me. The numbers are staggering (I'm assuming that they are correct). I would say that attitudes of many men I know are definitely sub-optimal (as is mine sometimes unfortunately*) and quite a few I can know are at the very least deeply sexist (possibly worse) under a veneer of equality - something that they never show in front of women, only in the company of men....
*I try pretty hard to not be sexist at all, but not always successfully...