I didn’t mean for this post to cause a bunch of arguing in the comments =(

I thought this was just some gallows humor (e.g. “Everything’s lovely except that I have to fear for my safety all the time”) type of shitpost that sounded similar to comments I’ve heard from women irl a lot.

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      2022: Deaths by Accidents (unintentional injuries): 227,039 source

      Deaths by murder and nonnegligent manslaughter: 21,781 source

      While I didn’t find 2022 numbers for the male to female ratio, in 2023 it was 13,789 to 3,849… source

      If you’re uninformed maybe hold back with accusations.

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        Sure, men are getting killed. But they are not getting killed because of their gender, while women on the other hand are often killed exactly because they are women.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femicide

        So, a woman going out alone in the dark is always at risk of being raped, killed or violated in other ways.

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      Well I imagine that men get killed more in general. The dude might have a point there. It’s just speculation with no fact the way he wrote it.

      But if he is right it would make more sense to get some stats on how many men vs women get attacked, stalked, followed, cat called, etc going about their business at night. My imagination is that those numbers are very different and that they - together with the fact that most women are way weaker than most men - would have a reason to be more afraid.

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        “more men get murdered” isn’t relevant though. Hypothetically, if predominantly men murder lots of men and women equally, a woman would be right to be worried about getting murdered by a man.