Yes, everyone is encouraged to take violence against women much more seriously than violence against men.

One might say that this sexist bias is the problem, and one that the original blogger seeks to exacerbate.

You seem to ascribe a fair amount of bad faith to me and I'm not sure why. Maybe because this line of argument pattern-matches to MRA thought?

Anyway I didn't "abandon" the jobs point so much as point out that men are universally, even ignoring job choice, more likely to get into and be hurt in accidents. Accidental death and injury being far far more common than homicide and assault, that alone blows the "physical danger" argument out of the water. Not quite as dramatic as an industrial accident or a robbery-gone-wrong sure, but then again shark attacks are more dramatic than dying of heart disease.

And with regards to crime, your statistics do not say what you think they say. The national gang center says half of law enforcement agencies reported an increase in gang crime, not that ~50% of violent crimes were committed by gang members. Looking at the FBI unified crime reports, I can only find clear breakdowns of victims / circumstances in homicide, but it looks like even subtracting the entire number of gang-related deaths from the male death total still leaves them with more than three times the number of homicide victims that women have (9,917 male victims - 884 gang/institutional murder victims / 2,834 female victims = 3.19). And remember, the homicide rate today has been masked by medical advances for decades; male victimization rates are actually much higher than crime statistics indicate, and again most of these guys are 'civilians' rather than career criminals.

The whole point of my original post was this; it doesn't matter if you look at crime victimization or workplace injury or accidents or all of them or something else entirely, because by any and all reasonable measures a man is in more "physical danger" in his everyday life than a woman is (yes, even the mythical Average Man/Woman). There are a handful of crimes which women are at special risk from and need to be cautious of, but men will disproportionately die or be injured in pretty much any other way you could imagine.

(BTW, I'm not the one downvoting you. One of those times when an anonymous karma system is more of a pain than a positive.)

But I also think the average man walking down the average street at night is significantly safer than the average woman doing the same

Most sexual assaults are not committed by random strangers on the average street at night.
IIUC, if we exclude sexual assault, gang-related violence, and random fights/brawls, victimization rates for men and women are similar, and probably still higher for men.

I think that likely explains some of the discrepancy.

I routinely walk across a park late at night that women I know avoid.

The problem is how to get the data without contributing to the atmosphere of fear. Because that atmosphere really does harm quality of life for a lot of women, and is not in any real way helpful at mitigating the danger, because it hardly ever comes with usable advice or strategies attached.

I suspect the most common and useful strategy is the "Girls come in pairs and groups" thing. Which has the advantage of not being a stressor in the way turning yourself into Nicola Griffiths Aud would be, and also likely pretty darn effective - Hard to get raped if your bestie is kicking your assailant in the kidneys.

On a much better tangent: Aud is awesome, and I am really confused noone has made her into a series of blockbuster movies yet.

The true ratio is probably somewhere between 0.76 and 0.38

Before starting to speak of the true ratio, you really should examine your data source a bit more carefully.

Your link leads to a non-academic article which quotes numbers from opinion surveys and there's little information on those. In particular, the question of how representative their data sample was is kinda important. To make an obvious observation, people living in big cities probably (correctly) fear crime more than people living in rural communities. Therefore the reported average fear of crime will be greatly affected by how urbanized your sample is.

Another point is that your Table 2 does not give numbers about people who worry about rape. It gives numbers about people who worry about "yourself or someone in your family getting sexually assaulted or raped" (emphasis mine). And "sexual assault" is a fuzzy term which might, depending on who and how you ask, include things like catcalls and leery glances. And boyfriends. Plus, to continue my example, probably every parent with a teenage daughter answered "pretty frequently" to this question.

P.S. Also the numbers are from 1993. The overall crime rate in the US has dropped hugely since then.

Unless the intent of this poll is just to mock Vulture's original phrasing, I'd suggest changing the wording of the question.

The intent was to illustrate how easy it is to create a poll. I would like people to create polls more often when they wonder about something that could be instead estimated using a poll.

I apologize for the wording, but it seems unfair to change the words when some people have already voted. Anyway, the whole poll is hidden deep in the comment tree. It would be better to do it again, in a top-level comment, in the Open Thread (to reduce selection bias). And it would be better done by someone who treats this hypothesis more seriously; they will find a better wording.

I'm glad you liked it.

It's something I've been thinking for a while, but I believe this is the first time I've posted it.

All hail LW for being a place where I felt safe saying that privilege is local-- it took being a place where SJ language is understood without SJ being the dominant ideology.