Is walking down the street more dangerous for men or for women?

[enchanted]

It's common to hear how dangerous it is for women to walk down the street but apparently it's far more dangerous to walk down the street for men! What a mind fuck

Edited 10 hours ago by enchanted

[Natasha Tori Maru]

It's definitely about the perception of safety and fear for women. Being inherently weaker (despite the insistence of some).

Men face more violence.

[something_else]

This is nuanced, I suspect a lot of the stats here are skewed by things like gang activity, which your average man does not really need to worry about just walking down the street.

An average woman is probably more likely to be attacked/injured/assaulted/harassed by random men on the street just because she is a woman. Your average man has probably rarely or never been bothered by a stranger on the street, while the average woman has somewhat frequently.

This is why women fear walking down the street on their own more.

[Carl-Richard]

Think about walking through a crowded PvP zone with high defense/HP vs a relatively vacant PvP zone with low defense/HP. What feels the scariest?

[Sugarcoat]

The women are afraid of public spaces and think random men are the problem, but the fact they are more at risk for abuse by their partners shows that the bigger problem is actually her poor intuition about men and what kind of men she is attracted to. Hmmm. Almost like she is a danger to herself, not the men

Edited 1 hour ago by Sugarcoat

[Schizophonia]

59 minutes ago, Sugarcoat said:

The women are afraid of public spaces and think random men are the problem, but the fact they are more at risk for abuse by their partners shows that the bigger problem is actually her poor intuition about men and what kind of men she is attracted to. Hmmm. Almost like she is a danger to herself, not the men

But at least there's power in the relationship.
If you get attacked by some weirdo in the street there's almost nothing you can do.

[Sugarcoat]

5 minutes ago, Schizophonia said:

But at least there's power in the relationship.
If you get attacked by some weirdo in the street there's almost nothing you can do.

But the statistics are talking about the instances when the abuse etc actually happens, so how is what you’re saying relevant 

[Schizophonia]

4 minutes ago, Sugarcoat said:

But the statistics are talking about the instances when the abuse etc actually happens, so how is what you’re saying relevant 

The post was specifically about the street context.