I’ve been told my whole life, by men, that I can’t go out at night alone, because men, but if I say it it’s forbidden, because woman. Explain.
Comment on The one drawback to walking at night
weeeeum@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
You are 10x more likely to die by falling, car crash or unintentionally poisoned than get murdered.
You are 20x more likely to die by falling, car crash, or unintentionally poisoned than get murdered, as a woman.
Women are actually much less likely to get murdered in general.
Stop villainizing men. This is equally as idiotic as villainizing POC because they have higher crime rates Dont sink to the level of the GOP by generalizing. The unfair alienation of young men is real, and ultimately cost us the election, just so we can feel better than them.
eatthecake@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Freefall@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
“She just got raped, beaten and robbed, that totally isn’t a murder! Women are safer than men!” sheesh, talk about not making a point…
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
You’re a dumbass. Stop gaslighting women. /A man
MildlyArdvark@feddit.dk 14 hours ago
I find these numbers intriguing. Where did you get them from?
weeeeum@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Unintentional deaths www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/accidental-injury.htm
Homicide statistics statista.com/…/murder-victims-in-the-us-by-gender…
stevedice@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
Because it happens enough to be a problem. Mexicans are also more likely to die from any of those things than from cartel violence so I guess cartels are not a problem? I’m gonna assume you suck at statistics, because the alternative is that you’re sexist.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
Wait so how much crime is the limit for it to be ok to use to fearmonger against an entire demographic? If men are let’s say 13% of the population and commit let’s say 52% of all crimes, is that enough in your estimation to say men are dangerous or a problem or whatever?
MildlyArdvark@feddit.dk 10 hours ago
Personally I wasn’t offended at all. There’s just so many people throwing numbers around and I’d like to know where they get them from before I make my own judgement if spread that info elsewhere.
hamburger@discuss.tchncs.de 14 hours ago
From his imagination.
AAA@feddit.org 13 hours ago
hamburger@discuss.tchncs.de 13 hours ago
Sure, men are getting killed. But they are not getting killed because of their gender, while women on the other hand are often killed exactly because they are women.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femicide
So, a woman going out alone in the dark is always at risk of being raped, killed or violated in other ways.
MildlyArdvark@feddit.dk 14 hours ago
Well I imagine that men get killed more in general. The dude might have a point there. It’s just speculation with no fact the way he wrote it.
But if he is right it would make more sense to get some stats on how many men vs women get attacked, stalked, followed, cat called, etc going about their business at night. My imagination is that those numbers are very different and that they - together with the fact that most women are way weaker than most men - would have a reason to be more afraid.
lurklurk@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
“more men get murdered” isn’t relevant though. Hypothetically, if predominantly men murder lots of men and women equally, a woman would be right to be worried about getting murdered by a man.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 12 hours ago
Fear of zombies could be at an all time high but that doesn’t mean we should implement policies to deal with the risk of zombie invasion.
mongoosedadei@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 5 hours ago
I feel old now seeing the 15 years ago, I swear I was in my teens when I first saw it. Oh…
JackbyDev@programming.dev 13 hours ago
You to the woman taking a cab home after a night at the club: “Ma’am, don’t you know you’re 20x more likely to die by falling, car crash, or unintentional poisoning? Why don’t you walk home alone instead of taking the cab?”