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Wait, the FBI reports nearly 14k homicides in the US in 2019 and only 1.8k were a man killing a woman? That's a smaller proportion than I expected.
I got the FBI data here, it only breaks things down by method: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-8.xls
Well, if we’re being pedantic you could check to see how many of those homicides were being committed by men vs women…
But also, it’s isn’t just murder that makes women fear men. It’s harassment. It’s rape.
I'm sure those numbers are much higher, I just felt weird looking at the linked study because it felt unnaturally void of context and when I found the context it made the study feel incredibly disingenuous.
I was trying to look up statistics on how many perpetrators of homicides, assault, etc. there were but I didn't manage to find anything. I was curious to what degree it was a "loud minority" kind of situation, which is the frame my brain goes into when I consider this hypothetical.
According to the CDC, as of 2010 nearly one in five women in the US has been raped. And 1 in 6 have been stalked.
That’s one heck of a loud minority, just saying.
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