Why do women worry about walking alone at night but not men?

Like I said and you conveniently cropped it out: sheltered. How do you know? Just how? lmao how do you know what muggers do?! How many people do you know have been hospitalised almost killed for getting poked in the back with a blade and their lungs almost collapsing, mind their own business beforehand? You don't know any do you. Lucky you yea but you don't know wtf you're on about. People are violently attacked for minding their business and a madman walked by and preemptively whacked em and walked off. I was! Walking home by myself and SWEAR to you I got tapped on the shoulder, asked a question and looked away and next I know I can't see. Check into ER they tell me I've got a hyphema and could go ****ing blind. I didn't react violently because I wasn't approached violently. But it ended violently. Because they made up their mind they wanted to attack someone. Apparently the lad didn't liek me and thought I nicked his bird. We had never spoken before though. And I know this has happened to other people, just randomly attacked. And you say "leave you alive" lol maybe that's an American term or something or just you personally talking rubbish but where I'm from people get left for dead, not left alive! ANYWAY EVERYONE is vulnerable to being attacked whether mugged or rapped or violently by a madman. Man, woman, child, elderly, small, big, tough, coward, poor, rich. And it's all horrible. So don't sit there typing it's only horrible for a certain group and a certain type of attack?! Live a little, learn a little. Eugh.

The main reason I'm not scared to walk home at night is because like most men* I have a plan for when I'm attacked .

And a few years ago I put it into action and it worked like a dream!!

As I was walking past a dark side road a few minutes from my house at midnight two young men with a fierce looking dog approached and told me they had a gun and a knife and that I should hand over all my money.

Now I strongly suspected that they probably didn't have a gun or even a knife cos if they did why not show me the gun if they had a gun or if they had a knife why not show that instead of mentioning guns. But unluckily for me I was carrying £4000 in cash for a very important reason and I couldn't afford to lose it.Also did I mention the dog ?

So I immediately put my plan into action.

I said ok no problem,put my hand into my jeans took out about £200 threw it on the ground........(that was improvised of course)

Then I ran into the front garden we were in front off ,picked up a rock that I'd already spotted from the streetlight,threw it through the front window,dropped my trousers and started screaming ,Heeeeellllllpppp RAPE!! RAPE !!! in as high a voice as I could muster.

This succeeded in getting the attention of the couple who lived in the house and they phoned the police. Meanwhile the two culprits took my cash and ran away.

Not sure if this would work for women though.

* don't they?

I never said that there weren't madmen. But all I know here the advice the police give people is not to resist, because they probably just want your money. Unless you're unlucky enough to be a woman or encounter a gay criminal. But they still don't recommend resisting even in that case.

Statistics back this up. In the US, you're a lot more likely to be robbed than murdered. The majority of people lying in wait for you at night are thieves driven to crime by desperation or greed. A madman can kill you in the daytime just as easily as he can at night.

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

It won't work for anyone because if they actually did have a gun they'd shoot you and you'd never even get to pulling your pants down. Most people wouldn't take risk to antagonise their assailant. No idea why you threw the cash if you had a foolproof plan to cry rape. Also it's not cool to cry rape. And no idea why they'd stick around after you gave em the cash pretty willingly. The story should've ended at you throwing the cash.

As for women trying this, they're most likely not strong enough to fight the attacker off and the cowards know it. But it's worth a ****ing try you'd think.

Just curious as to why people have this belief.

The reason people would be worried is because of the number of victims, so, when we look at victims, we see that around 33% of violent crime victims are female.

Women are half as likely to be attacked on the street as men, so why do people think this way?

Well there are a few things there.

If a woman is attacked then it's up to her to decide whether to scream or not. And what to scream. But I believe that shouting rape is more likely to get someone to phone the police than just screaming.

As for the order of things I didn't know my plan was 'foolproof' did I ?

Throwing down £200 was a way of keeping them occupied while I got a few seconds to get away.

The main part was breaking the window of the nearest house.

Obviously, if all I had was £200 on me ,and if I could afford to lose it,I'd have just handed it over and then just knocked on the door of the house when they went.

But there was NO WAY they were getting the £4000 . I would definitely have risked my life at that particular point in my life.

Probably a strength thing. I am a man with the frame of a child and never had a proper fight in my life so I am pretty uncomfortable walking alone at night lel.

I actually do worry about getting attacked or assaulted. Women are generally physically inferior to men and most attackers are men.

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Yeah, this. I hate being 5ft2 D:

I actually do worry about getting attacked or assaulted. Women are generally physically inferior to men and most attackers are men.

I understand your logic but it's time to prove this with research

Women women women. What about the short physically inferior men walking around getting bullied?

Erm I'm going from my own experience. I can't refer to other people. This is more than about being bullied.

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