Re: For Tiny: Men Vs Women Fearing Walking The Streets At Night


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On Feb 12, 8:57 am, "Michael Snyder" <msny...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Bo Raxo" <crimenewscen...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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I've often seen our friend Tiny complain that men don't face the same
fears
of walking alone at night, because of our greater physical size and
strength. That we just don't get it when women discuss these fears
they
deal with every day - and every night.

And yet the vast majority (more than 90 percent)
of street violence victims are men and boys.

Tiny will now respond with the (blaming-the-victim)
non-sequitur that the perps are mostly male too.

Which has absolutely nothing to do with either Bo's
statement, or mine, or with the position of Tiny's
that Bo was addressing.

Doesn't it show that both mena and women fear men?
yD


Yes, it does, but that has nothing to do with the point I was making. I
was discussing *who* was in fear, and *how* realistic that fear was. Not
who it was they were *afraid* *of*.


What? You mean there aren't a bunch of roaming females out there waiting
to commit crimes against men?


Nice how you girls make up a point not being discussed, as if that refutes
what was being discussed.

Bo's afraid of being robbed of his money walking alone at night. I
wonder how cavalier he'd be were it his *ass* he was in fear of?


I'm not afraid of being robbed of my money. They can have the hundred
bucks in my pocket, it's replaced at the nearest ATM.

I am afraid of being beaten, stabbed, shot, etc. I've been jumped and
beaten on the street, once, about fifteen years ago. Not fun. I had some
lunatic who thought a buddy and I were a gay couple attack me a couple of
New Year's Eves ago, ironically not two blocks from where the other attack
occurred - I guess two guys in expensive tuxedos looked like an easy gay
bashing target to him. Turns out he was wrong.

Point being, statistically walking down the street I'm more likely to get
attacked and end up in the hospital that a woman is. Check the numbers -
men do most of the random violence, sure, but men are on the receiving end
of most of it.

And as I knew Tiny would bring up rape, well, that's apples and oranges.
Again, check the numbers, compare felony assaults to rapes. And I don't
mean *any* degree of sexual assault, which includes fondling and even
non-contact offenses, because then we'd need to compare to misdemeanor
assaults too. I mean actual rapes versus felony assaults. Look up the
numbers, because I'm tired of pointing this out.

Then go look up the definition of "orders of magnitude". But then I guess
to some, a thousand men beaten badly enough to go to the ER doesn't count
as much as one woman raped. Is that it, literally?


No, that's not it *literally*. When women walk down the street alone at
night, and something does happen to them, we immediately hear, 'well, they
shouldn't have been walking alone at night to begin with,' like it's somehow
expected to be the womans fault for walking alone at night. She was 'askin'
for it'. IIRC, this whole topic of discussion began as 'feeling safe
walking in ones neighborhood'. Do I feel safe walking in my own
neighborhood? Yeah, other than that pit bull that isn't properly
restrained. I feel perfectly safe from *humans*, and I am doing the best to
remedy the improperly secured pit bull situation.


td





Bo Raxo




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