And fwiw in my personal experience, the men and women I know have had about similar rates of assault from strangers
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Well for one thing statistics are influenced by perceived risk. The statistics don't track how many times women walk down a dark alleyway alone or how often men yell at strangers in a crowded bar.
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There's a classic line about how you're more likely to be killed by a cow than by a shark, but this of course ignores that millions of people spend every day around millions of cows.
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Are women less likely to be attacked as they are less likely to be out alone? It's one of those things that would be hsrd/ impossible to measure.
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are these statistics global or specific to a certain region? i’d be shocked to find stats that women in India are safer than men from strangers, for example, but perhaps I could believe it about certain metropolitan areas in the US.
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Presumably driven not by absolute risk but by risk *given* that you are attacked. The way many people are more afraid of flying than driving, because an airplane crash is far more deadly than a car crash even though the absolute risk is much lower.
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Also depends on how people are treated when expressing those fears. As a teenage boy, I remember several frightening incidents (mostly older teens trying to steal money), but adults would just tell me not to be such a wimp. Girls wouldn't get that response.
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Women are less likely to get into a fight/be assaulted by a man we don’t know/recently met but we’re at a HUGE disadvantage if it does happen.
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I mean it’s silly to conflate the risk of being assaulted *at all* with the risk of being *badly injured if an assault happens* and also to ignore that we behave differently and minimize the number of the former because of the latter
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I would assume this fear is exactly what is keeping women from this danger yeah? Men are much more likely to risk take. Women typically avoid these situations if possible.
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