All the ignorance in this comment section just proves once again the systemic bias against women in our society.  The willingness to be automatically suspicious of women, dismissing their reality and ignorance of the relevance of statistics to identifying issues is just showing again how profound misogyny is here.  Our culture refuses to value the lives of its women and it's even worse for women of colour and aboriginal women.  People posting here do not realize (or do but don't care) how they are perpetuating misogyny against their daughters, mothers, sisters, wives, etc.  These posters are too ignorant to recognize that they are the problem - a problem they refuse to even acknowledge.