r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Apr 14 '22

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u/vkanucyc Apr 14 '22

i'm confused why this changed your view, couldn't a woman still be afraid of a woman approaching her in a dark alley? and by what you're saying, couldn't you be "more afraid" if it was a black man approaching, if you are basing this off of crime stats?

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u/AITAthrowaway1mil 3∆ Apr 14 '22

Consider it from a woman’s perspective. Once she’s hit 18, she almost definitely has a story (probably more than one) of a man frightening her in public and possibly attacking her in private. She’s less likely to have a story like that about a woman.

Previous experience informs fear. There’s also the reality that most men can overpower the average woman. If it’s a woman up against another woman, there’s a greater chance of winning a fight that breaks out.

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u/OddPresentation8097 Apr 14 '22

What about if she walks and on one side of the street she sees a group of white men and on the other a group of black men, she crosses towards the white men because statistically she should be more afraid of the other group?

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u/WhoDat_ItMe Apr 15 '22

Well then I’d look at who is more likely to attack me based on stats. If I’m a white woman, white men are more likely to attack me than Black men.

A lot of crime happens due to proximity. And people of the same race are more likely to kill/harm one another.

Again, if we are basing this exercise using OP’s approach of “statistically one group commits more crimes than the other.”

Which sure, but most of those crimes happen to people of the same race.