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> The couple had another big consideration in planning their travels: Personal safety. (...) Waiting to charge a car can take much longer than filling one up wi
by pdpi 4y ago
> The couple had another big consideration in planning their travels: Personal safety. (...) Waiting to charge a car can take much longer than filling one up with gas.
That was my regularly scheduled reminder that, no matter how hard I try to keep other people's perspectives in mind, I still have blind spots. In retrospect it's obvious — there's plenty of service stations I can't imagine feeling safe at if I was a woman, alone and just waiting for my car to charge up.
- PaulHoule 4y agoSee https://www.statista.com/statistics/423245/us-violent-crime-victims-by-gender/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/423245/us-violent-crime-... And also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homicide_statistics_by_gender https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homicide_statistics_by_gender "A 2000 global study on homicide by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime found that men accounted for ... 79% of the victims"
- loeg 4y agoI think this effect is almost entirely gang members assassinating other gang members, which is not something the background population actually experiences (for the most part).
- snozolli 4y agoI'm sure that when a woman rolls up to a gas or charging station with a meandering crackhead or weird lurker, she can comfort herself by repeating the mantra "79% of homicide victims are male".
- Symbiote 4y agoThose statistics are completely irrelevant. You would need to find statistics on sexual and non-sexual assault, theft, robbery and so on in quiet areas on above-average-income people, and compare the rates for men and women.
- ineedasername 4y agoPeople are murdered for different reasons than those that contribute to women often feeling unsafe in some situations. There’s a whole spectrum of situations ranging from unpleasant to violent that don’t rise to the level of actual murder.
- danans 4y ago> "A 2000 global study on homicide by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime found that men accounted for ... 79% of the victims" I don't want to spell it out for you, but women are disproportionately the victims of different kinds of crime than homicide.
- sp0ck 4y agoWhere are you live where such daily task like charging car is security risk ?
- shrimp_emoji 4y agoThe New World
- snozolli 4y agoYears ago, a local skinhead and his buddies surrounded a car being driven by an Asian woman and began screaming at her to go back to her country. This is in an utterly dull suburban environment. In the SF Bay area, I regularly had to deal with dudes approaching me at the pump to beg for money, often berating me for turning them away. Recently, there was a car-jacking at a local gas station. Again, utterly dull suburban USA. Stuff happens all the time whether you experience it or not. Sometimes it's violent, other times it just feels like it could turn violent. Most times it's not recorded in any static.