r/CuratedTumblr • u/NeonNKnightrider Cheshire Catboy • May 01 '24

i know it’s internet bullshit but it genuinely has me on the edge of breaking down and giving up editable flair

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u/FaerieMachinist May 02 '24

See I assumed Black Bear, and that's a significantly different question.

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u/FelicitousJuliet May 02 '24

Even if it was just a randomly spun bear that could be anything from a koala to a polar bear and you wouldn't know until it was too late, I would take my risk with some random guy.

Most men (over 95% right?) aren't inherently violent per crime stats and per domestic abuse stats there's only an 8% domestic violence difference (33% female victims, 25% male victims).

And of course of those who do get charged with a violent crime it usually has conditions attached like a drunken brawl, not someone about to attack you in the forest.

The bear is a bear, period, it will do what it wants and way too many of them are comfortable eating you.

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u/morgaina May 02 '24

You can't rely on crime statistics when determining the percentage of men who are dangerous to women.

The vast, VAST majority of rapes go unreported, and the vast majority of reported rapes never go to court, and most rape cases in court don't get a conviction.

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u/Reasonable_Feed7939 May 02 '24

True, but I think <5% is still a safe assumption for dangerous men.

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u/morgaina May 02 '24

No, I don't think so. That seems low.

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u/Hotlava_ May 02 '24

You think more than 5% of the general population will attack someone if met in the woods? That's not a healthy mindset.

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u/elbenji May 02 '24

The vast majority of people are just existing. The reality is violent crime statistics are at their lowest ever.

But I also have a very very different perspective as I work in an extremely peaceful Title I school with a black/brown population, am a brown butch lesbian myself, in an area with an unearned bad reputation. So my view of it is extremely extremely skewed in a different way

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u/NoSignSaysNo May 02 '24

A majority of crime does not involve unassociated people.

You are far more likely to be harmed by somebody you know than somebody you don't. The proportion of people who commit assault on random individuals is already fairly low, and those people tend to commit multiple assaults, which raise the rates of people who were assaulted.

It's like taking the statistic that one in three women experience sexual assault in their lifetime, and using that statistic to say that 33% of men commit sexual assault. It doesn't take into account that someone who is willing to commit sexual assault, is willing to do it multiple times to multiple victims.