Sunday, January 24, 2010

I hate quantitative research.

I keep wanting to do my research on things for which there just isn't the correct data from the set I have to draw from. Specifically, I'd like to further study same-sex sexual violence. I've been reading this really fascinating article on Women-to-Women rape, which is very intriguing. It defies gender norms, it goes against certain Feminist thinking, and it's just not what most people would expect. It's perfect for someone wanting to write an interesting paper. BUT....
But the survey results don't really talk a lot about rape or sexual assault, at least not in the way of questioning whether people have or have not been sexually assaulted. Nor does it cover if they know someone who has openly admitted to being sexually assaulted, or anything else I might be able to work with. It's frustrating.
And as far as anything about homosexuality, it seems to only really cover whether people think it's right or wrong. Which might be interesting if I had more information on sexual assault. Then I could maybe construct a paper on how people view sexual assault of women (by men) and try to compare how empathetic people are of people who are assaulted by someone of the same sex. I could then use Feminist theories to compare any apathy to that of women in the 1970s, when women were first treated as if they wanted to be raped.
BUT... then again... I don't have the necessary data at my fingertips. So instead I'll just bitch.