Comment on The one drawback to walking at night

• weeeeum@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Unintentional deaths www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/accidental-injury.htm

  Homicide statistics statista.com/…/murder-victims-in-the-us-by-gender…

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  • stevedice@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨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.

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    • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨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?

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      • stevedice@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Ah, there’s the racist dog whistle. Fuck off.

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  • MildlyArdvark@feddit.dk ⁨7⁩ ⁨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.

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• hamburger@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  From his imagination.

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  • AAA@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    2022: Deaths by Accidents (unintentional injuries): 227,039 source

    Deaths by murder: 21,781 source

    While I didn’t find 2022 numbers for the male to female ratio, in 2023 it was 13,789 to 3,849… source

    If you’re uninformed maybe hold back with accusations.

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    • hamburger@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨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.

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  • MildlyArdvark@feddit.dk ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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    • lurklurk@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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