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Hard truth? Obviously women need to be more careful when walking alone at night; they're less able to defend themselves than men due to obvious physical differe
by hereme888 3y ago
Hard truth? Obviously women need to be more careful when walking alone at night; they're less able to defend themselves than men due to obvious physical differences.
This "hard truth" has been obvious and logical to mankind since the beginning.
- intrepidpar 3y agoIf you go by statistics on public sphere violence it's really men who should be more on the lookout.
- hereme888 3y agoBecause men get into fights with each other, and we're wired to protect our women. If you go by statistics on abductions and abuse, it's really women who should be more on the lookout. Men are less worried about some guy jumping out of a bush at night. Just fight him and move on; women can't fight back the same.
- jeltz 3y agoOr theoretically possible: the risks are equally big for both genders but men tend to be on the lookout less so end up in trouble for often.
- hereme888 3y agoHow is it even controversial that women are more at risk walking alone at night? This is ridiculous.
- falcolas 3y agoA non-trivial percentage of women are physically larger and stronger than a non-trivial percentage of men, yet those smaller men are not scared to walk alone at night for fear of running across a large woman. The real hard truth is that some men assault women. The problem is that the assaulters look like every other man, meaning women can't target their fears at just the bad men.
- arandomusername 3y agoThe percentage of women that are physically stronger than men is extremely small. Negligibly small. But also true, men are more violent.
- almatabata 3y agoFor reference, if you take upper body strength as an indicator for this you see the small amount of overlap between the distributions: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Upper-body-isometric-strength-N-frequency-distribution-for-male-panel-A-and-female_fig1_11532628 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Upper-body-isometric-str...
- arandomusername 3y agoA small % of strongest women are as strong as the weakest "men".
- almatabata 3y agoYes correct, I like to show these kind of graphs because a lot of people (not saying you) do no realize how little overlap there is between the distributions.
- Der_Einzige 3y agoThat overlap is the "death by snu-snu" zone and honestly most of those small men would be more than happy for those women to be physical with them
- seneca 3y ago> A non-trivial percentage of women are physically larger and stronger than a non-trivial percentage of men, yet those smaller men are not scared to walk alone at night for fear of running across a large woman. This is just not true. Larger yes, but the percentage of women who are stronger than even a weak man is vanishingly small.
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- otikik 3y agoWhat you say has some truth to it, but it is incomplete. Consider the following: a weak man has less to be afraid of than a very fit woman, even when she is clearly stronger than him.
- hereme888 3y agoAgree