[ SECRET POST #2638 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2638 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I hear this a lot, but what are the exact statistics backing this claim? What studies do they derive from, and what research parameters do they employ? Do they survey a normal population of both sexes, or do they also take into account violence committed in the context of organized crime?

In any case, even if physical assault is statistically more likely to happen to men, that doesn't mean it's something women don't have to fear. You think a woman has nothing to worry about every time she comes home late from work? Walks through a "bad" neighbordhood carrying a handbag? Is alone at home at night? The fear of sexual violence is just the lovely cherry that gets added on top of this shit.

[(Anonymous)]

http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cv12.pdf

Here, this has answers to most of the questions you were asking. But they have tons more data at that site if you want to dig deeper; there's a lot of really interesting number-crunching going on.

Short version: yes, men are victims of violent crime more often, yes, that's accurate.

[(Anonymous)]

Three things of concern:

- Sexual assault is categorized as a violent crime, but is severely under-reported.
- This report does not actually answer my question about violence in the context of organized crime (i.e. violence committed by criminals against each other). If those statistics are factored in, of course the balance will be tipped toward male victims.
- The average discrepancy is actually about 5-6 in 1000 cases, so really not enough to make the case that men are in overwhelmingly more danger. In reality, both sexes experience about the same level of fear toward robbery and assault because you don't read about something like that in the paper and think, "Thank god, that happened to a man." You think, "Oh god, he was a jogger like me," or, "Fuck, that happened in my neighborhood."

In short, statistics don't always provide the full picture and actually don't matter that much when the discussion is about popular psychology.

[(Anonymous)]

"statistics don't always provide the full picture and actually don't matter that much" STATISTICS DON'T MATTERRRRRRRRRRRRR! Then shut the fuck up about rape statistics. Obviously, they don't matter. Fucking idiot.