This post is from last year. It was the last thing I wrote before I moved to UnamusementPark.com. My site redirect just expired, so please bookmark and/or subscribe to the new website, where you will find our brand new Fourth of July coverage.
Since late last night (July 4), another unremarkable story with no race angle at all has been floating around the Internet. The Baltimore Sun has one of the earliest reports: “Man stabbed to death, child shot in Inner Harbor after fireworks.”
Violence erupted in separate locations of the Inner Harbor Monday night despite a heavy police presence for the holiday, with a child shot in the leg and a man fatally stabbed shortly after the fireworks ended.
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Earlier in the day, a man in his 20s was shot twice inside a parking garage around 2 a.m. after a long-running feud was reignited. He survived the attack.
This violence was “a significant disappointment” for Baltimore police, whose “elaborate July Fourth safety plan… involved several hundred state and city officers patrolling Baltimore’s streets, monitoring surveillance cameras and tracking one another via GPS signals.” In fact, Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III was so confident in his planning,
[he] held a news conference Monday evening to quell fears that the downtown area was dangerous, telling reporters that arrests were imminent in the morning incident and that he believed there were “sufficient resources” in place to secure the Inner Harbor for the Independence Day celebration.
Oops.
The story does not mention race, so for example, the stabbing victim was an “adult male,” who got into a confrontation with a “group of individuals”; two more “individuals” fell into the water and were rescued by the BPD Marine Unit; “several juveniles” were arrested for carrying knives; and police enforced the curfew by clearing “young people” off the streets after 11 pm.
Tonight (July 5), WRBL News reports that “a photo of the suspect in the killing was taken by cellphone” and “city officials were hoping to quickly capture the suspect,” yet the photo is neither shown nor described. In particular, the story does not mention race. The Baltimore Business Journal is similarly uninformative.
The Baltimore Sun’s follow-up includes a video in which Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake (who is black) condemns “these people who engage in these terrible and senseless acts of violence” as cowards whose behavior will not be tolerated. Neither the story nor the video mentions race. However, the video does briefly display a photo of the suspect. WBAL has more photos (below), plus a video of a large number of African Americans “celebrating” the Fourth of July in a not-unthreatening manner.
Suspected of stabbing a man to death with a broken bottle on the Fourth of July. Source: WBAL.
One witness reports a “moving mob” (or something kind of like it).
Jean Holzhueter, who lives within walking distance of the Inner Harbor, has attended the New Year’s and Independence Day fireworks for many years, but she said that Monday was the first time she felt unsafe during the festivities. … “It was kind of like a moving mob,” Holzhueter said. Although police responded quickly, she said, Holzhueter was afraid she would be pushed into the water by the expanding crowd. “It was just scary how fast it grew.”
Fortunately, a man who gets paid to make Baltimore look good sets us straight.
Added Bill Gilmore of the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts: “You need to march along. You can’t let an incident like this deter your Independence Day celebrations. You can’t let the actions of a few people affect the good work and entertainment of the public at large.”
Reporting is sooooo much work
Let us apply our usual racist trick: search Twitter for “harbor, black” and other interesting combinations of words (e.g. “somebody got stabbed at the harbor”) to see what the mainstream media could not be bothered to report.
Here are just a few of the hundreds of relevant tweets I found from the night in question, not including re-tweets. I’ll keep it simple: name, race, time, and tweet. Notice how early people (well, black people) detected trouble (from black people). For comparison, the stabbing occurred shortly after 10 pm (ABC2) and first aired on the 11 pm news.
- _ViolaLoves, black, 8:57 pm: “At the harbor too many black ppl lls”
- dbeats11, black, 9:24 pm: “Never again will I bring my black ass down the harbor on 4th of july”
- TeamWonnyBitch, black, 10:02 pm: “Dannng! Black ppl never cant do/get nothing right… On my way up the Harbor turning all the way around because they shut it down. *Shrugs”
- Marleyy_, black, 10:03 pm: “Shit got wild down da harbor black people is wild cant have alotta dem inda same place“
- AyyLera, black, 10:06 pm: “The harbor is a coon fest…what is with this black mob stuff its crazy.”
- OozieBangz, black, 10:10 pm: “Damn, Somebody Got Stabbed At The Harbor Already ?! Smh [Shaking my head] Black People <<<"
- Duh_Toy, black, 10:13 pm: “Somebody got stabbed at the innor harbor! #notsuprised“
- dozens of tweets (and retweets) almost identical to Duh_Toy’s, all by black people, such as TinyyTerror at 10:23 pm: “So somebody got stabbed at the harbor? Idk [I don’t know] why people acting so surprised.“
- x__JuicyShaa, black, 10:23 pm: “Wow someone got stabbed at the harbor , too many black ppl there at once .”
- _SunnyMonroee, black, 10:25 pm: “somebody got stabbed at the Harbor , we cant have NO type of fun nowadays without someone dying“
- bubblecheekz614, black, 10:26 pm: “Seen 6 fights so far at the harbor wtf is wrong with black people“
- Scuda3, black, 10:29 pm: “I hate black people dey dont never know how to get along ppl tryna have a good time at the harbor and you wanna jump and stab dem #smh”
- JetTrippyMane, black, 10:35 pm: “kill somebody got stabbed and shot at the Harbor tho….lol NIGGAS smh“
- LoveIsDeadXo, black, 10:40 pm: “That’s so fckn sad , ppl getting shot up & stabed at the harbor that’s the result of too many black ppl in a restricted area -______-“
- MallyRe, black, 10:57 pm: “You cant do SHIT with black people young… niggaz gettin stabbed at the harbor and shit”
- FreedomWars, black, 10:58 pm: “Somebody Got Stabbed At The Harbor -____- Black People ! Smh”
- Yeahh_ItsMia, black, 10:58 pm (right on time for the 11 o’clock news): “@_LoveeBuqq its on the newss . . And someotha people got shot and stabbed black people for you“
- Kyraa_Sasha (black), 10:59 pm: “See First The Zoo,Then The Carribean Festival,& Now The Harbor. Why Y’all Black Kids Gotta Be So Ignorant! Smhh” (re-tweeted by 14 other black people, mostly women)
- LoveMee_HateMe, black, 11:01 pm : “Heard shit went down , down the Harbor . smfh Thats exaclty why iStayed my black ass here in BelAir . Shiiddd”
- YouWitTheFace, black, 11:02 pm: “I’m LMAO At My TL Because Every Year Somebody Got Beat Up Or Stabbed Down The Harbor For Like 5 Years In A Row.”
- inked_skin_tone, black, 11:02 pm: “Smfh I knew a damn 4 year old shoot wtf #black people don’t know how to act“
- Weeenta, black, 11:04 pm: “Woah buddddy. There is black people everywhere at the harbor!”
- ForeverrSimone, black, 11:26 pm: “ah 4 yr old boy got shot & somebody was severly stabbed at the harbor ? this is fucking ridiculous ! i hateeee black people ,” (immediately re-tweeted by three other black women)
- NaeJackCity, black, 11:34 pm: “Yo its still hella niggas dwn the harbor !”
- PieVSTheWorld, black, 11:34 pm: “Somebody got stabbed n killed, someone else shot, and my SON was down there smh. Baltimore can’t have shit w/o niggers fuckin it up“
- therealMikeyLo, black, 11:36 pm: “niggas got stabbed to death and a 4 year old got shot and killed down da harbor ! #shitreal”
- meechie222, black, 11:37 pm: “@_Veeeeeee check fb [Facebook] about alll the “black ppl” saying yea I was holding my own down the harbor ..fightin and all dat stuff”
- IKeepAMistress, black, 12:14 am: “I see why white people think so low of blacks. Like seriously black people can’t just go to a nice place like the harbor and act right”
There are hundreds more like this from the same night, all saying basically the same thing:
- the Inner Harbor was full of black people last night
- the black people started fighting, one of them stabbed someone to death, and one of them shot a child
- point 2 is disappointing, but not surprising, given point 1
In a way, this is good news. Many ordinary black people — unlike their leaders and unlike most white people — are willing to say what we should all be thinking: black people, compared to white people, are innately violent and criminal, and you can’t put too many of them in the same place without someone getting killed. Harsh, I know, but this is the only theory that fits the data.
When the media won’t tell you the facts about black crime, go straight to the source: black people who are fed up with it themselves.
Unamusement Park 
I searched for white.
All black:
iCame4TheLoot
Theres a reason why I went to the National Mall with the white folk and families instead of Allen Pond or the Harbor.
IKeepAMistress
I see why white people think so low of blacks. Like seriously black people can’t just go to a nice place like the harbor and act right
iamjayhood
YEA DEY WAS LOL RT @SunnyDGAF_ The white ppl was too scared at the harbor lls
Supbishes
Yo the white people jumping in the baltimore harbor right now….. They are nuts.
2Smooth_Carter
If u wanna go to the harbor to see the fireworks n be safe, u gotta go where the white ppl are on the other side of the harbor lol
__owwMyGRIPPAAA
all the black kids are about to scare the white people away from the harbor.
_BIGjuan
I feel bad for the white people who be coming down the harbor.
Haha, yeah, I looked up “white people” for fun at one point. I’ll include a few, just to compare and contrast with “black people,” when I cover general Fourth of July violence.
Mostly black women seem to be dropping the n bombs.
Looks like “black ppl” are the biggest race realists of all.
They can’t afford to lie about black crime: they have to live with these people. The people promulgating race denialism — the SLAWBs — generally live as far from ghetto blacks as possible.
SLAWB?
[Stupid, liberal, anti-white bigot, a term I invented in “It’s official: the word ‘racist’ is meaningless.”]
So they need the equivalent of an infantry battalion just to maintain order at what should be a festive occasion? Now what does that portend?
That obviously doesn’t work now does it? We drove by a popular park in Houston Monday and noticed while trying to park there were scores of police cars, police on horseback (and no, this is not like Central Park in NY).
It became apparent why the cops were there. The park was full of Blacks, probably between 80-90%. We ended up going to a microbrewery instead, how SWPL is that?
Milwaukee: http://nation.foxnews.com/flash-mob-robberies/2011/07/06/oh-white-girl-bleeds-lot-race-mob-attack-rocks-milwaukee
Unamused, how could you tell for sure the race of the twitterers?
Most of them sure sounded black, though.
Their profile pictures, Doug1.
When I got out of college and started waiting tables I was struck at how openly anti-black the black servers where. Quite a big swing from college diversity training!
Gather round fellow visitors of Unamusment Park, I bring tales of horrible atrocities! Fall on your knees and pray to the Goddes of Human rights for forgiveness, for your brethren has sinned.
Patriarchy has struck again! Not only found another victim, who was helplessly invited to coffee and helplessly refused. But the incident has revealed hideous male privilege discovered in the atheist and sceptics community!
Extra! Extra read all about it Richard Dawkins denounced and shamed because he thinks men shouldn’t be held responsible for random women’s interpretation or unease at polite invitations to coffee. This kind of thinking shouldn’t be tolerated, who knows what heresies will follow! Also how dare he be so White, old and British (as a woman points out in the comments)? Shouldn’t he know better since he’s against Christians?
First read about it at this “reasonable” discussion and comment of the affair in the following science blog:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/07/05/richard-dawkins-and-male-privilege/
Whatever you may think of him, Richard Dawkins deserves a up down for being the voice of common sense in this debate.
A polite invitation to coffee is not just “not very bad” compared to some (he cites Muslim) practices that can be called misogynist, but “zero bad” in his words. We’re sorry you find the guy creepy miss but that dosen’t entitle you to expect sympathy from us or any shaming of him.
@ Reactionary_Konkvistador: What. The. Fudge.
I think you’ve found an example of feminism so stupid that it compels me to write about it, even though I hate writing about it, because of course feminists are illogical and not worthy debating.
The latest wtf. Yes, it turns out that women are threatened by the mere presence of a man in an elevator with them. I guess because all men are rapists? Anyway, men ought to be sensitive to that and not do anything that might possibly cause a woman to feel threatened. Certainly they should not talk to women, unless spoken to first. Ideally, I think, all men should assume the fetal position any time they find themselves alone with a woman. This will show the proper level of deferential un-threateningness.
Unamused, what the fudge? I already told you that in England many men are refusing to ride elevators with women because of false accusations of sexual assault.
What WILL eventually happen is, that in order to protect ourselves, we will simply all stop hanging around public spaces with women. Then the feminists will whine about that.
“The latest wtf. Yes, it turns out that women are threatened by the mere presence of a man in an elevator with them. I guess because all men are rapists? ”
Good grief. SO much of this BS could be avoided if it were just required reading for every woman to CAREFULLY read The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker. He talks specifically about how our modern cultural focus on political correctness and worries of being “rude” or “judgmental” have caused modern people in general, women in particular, to lose the ability to tell when they are actually in danger. “I don’t what to ‘judge a book by it’s cover’ so I’m just going to ignore this very bad feeling in the pit of my stomach in relation to this particular man.” So instead of recognizing a gut reaction to a possible real threat, we just walk around all the time in a perpetual state of low-level fear and anxiety that masks real danger signals.
Seriously, it’s good reading for anyone in this day and age, but menfolk, I strongly recommend you buy this for the ladies you care about. (Warning: The first chapter is really, really awful, not in terms of quality, just in terms of very upsetting content. It gets much easier to read after that)
This one made me so angry I could barely finish reading the article. Drudge had it on his site briefly. It’s open season on evil whitey because blacks know the state doesn’t care and they and whites both know that whites will be locked up for life if they fight back. They can beat, rape and kill all the white people they want:
http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/125027704.html
“Shaina Perry remembers the punch to her face, blood streaming from a cut over her eye, her backpack with her asthma inhaler, debit card and cellphone stolen, and then the laughter.
‘They just said ‘Oh, white girl bleeds a lot,’ ’ said Perry, 22, who was attacked at Kilbourn Reservoir Park over the Fourth of July weekend.
Though Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn noted Tuesday that crime is colorblind, he called the Sunday night looting of a convenience store near the park and beatings of a group of people who had gone to the park disturbing, outrageous and barbaric….
Perry was among several who were injured by a mob they said beat and robbed them and threw full beer bottles while making racial taunts. The injured people were white; the attackers were African-American, witnesses said….
‘I saw some of my friends on the ground getting beat pretty severely. They got away with one of my friends’ bikes. Some people had their wallets stolen,’ said Mowrer, who owns a house with her boyfriend in Riverwest. ‘It didn’t seem like it was a mugging – it seemed like an attack. Like they weren’t after anything – just violence.’
Andy Lange, 29, a social worker who has lived in Riverwest for 10 years, said one of his friends was hit in the head with a bottle and needed staples to close the wound. Lange said he was struck in the face and didn’t even see who hit him.
Perry needed three stitches to close a cut above her eye. She said she saw a friend getting kicked and when she walked up to ask what was happening, a man punched her in the face.
‘I heard laughing as they were beating everybody up. They were eating chips like it was a picnic,’ said Perry, a restaurant cashier. ‘All I remember is seeing bright lights (after the punch), then my backpack was gone and blood was spurting out of my head.’
Most of the 11 people who told the Journal Sentinel they were attacked or witnessed the attacks on their friends said that police did not take their complaints seriously. They each said police responded to the scene quickly and tended to the injured, but officers did not take statements from them and told them to leave the area….
‘About 20 of us stayed to give statements and make sure everyone was accounted for. The police wouldn’t listen to us, they wouldn’t take our names or statements. They told us to leave. It was completely infuriating,’ Bublitz said.”
Okay…so…now’s the part where I sheepishly admit that I posted my last response without actually reading the article Reactionary_Konkvistador linked to or watching the video in question, and now I have to do some embarrassed backpedaling.
Going back to what I said about Gavin de Becker, the situation Rebecca Watson found herself in is, according to him, precisely the type of situation that should make a woman on guard. This man didn’t just share an elevator with her or ask her to join him for coffee. He followed her back to the elevator from the hotel bar, very late at night, and invited her to join him for coffee in his hotel room. It made her uncomfortable. She talked about it in a video, without mentioning his name, without describing him and never accused him of anything beyond the fact that he made her uncomfortable, and delivered this message as advice to other men that doing “that” (inviting a strange woman alone on an elevator, late at night, back to your hotel room) isn’t a good idea.
Now, she does say she doesn’t like “being sexualized like that,” which might be an unfair assumption. It was, after all, a foreign country (Ireland, incidentally…a place known for it’s very chatty, sociable natives–so maybe, indeed, an invitation for talking over coffee at 4:00 a.m. was just that), we don’t know the nationality of the man in question (because it was an international conference), and, because social rules vary from country to country and culture to culture (even from one Western European culture to another), we can’t assume everyone is playing by the same rules. If it were in the US though and it were an American man, I’d be pretty freakin’ uncomfortable too.
We have this book in our house: http://tinyurl.com/65l7bbk
In the section on women and self-defense, the authors actually specifically give an “alone in elevator” scenario, advising women that if they are uncomfortable, for any reason or for no reason, they should leave the elevator as quickly as possible, even if they are afraid of insulting the stranger, but they also say this:
“…often, in the moments that precede assaults, there are indicators…Whole books have been dedicated to topics like this…It is beyond this book’s capacity to go into great detail about these sorts of behavior. We can, however, summarize the topic into one simple, absolute, and understandable concept:
Men who mean you no harm go out of their way not to make you uncomfortable.
A socially attuned man getting in the elevator with you will automatically stand as far from you as possible, and make himself as unobtrusive as he can. A man walking behind you on a lonely sidewalk will almost always slow down, or alter course so that he is not directly at your back…We all do these things without giving them much thought because we are operating under the same social contract together. Rapists and other attackers are not. They are either unaware of the discomfort they cause, or they enjoy it.” (p.33)
This man was not playing by those rules. He followed her into the elevator alone, and made questionable offers (that would be the bit about the hotel room, not the bit about the coffee), at 4:00 a.m.
Richard Dawkins may not deserve getting flayed for this, but Ms. Watson didn’t deserve his rather biting, sarcastic criticism either. Not when safety and self-defense experts (you know, the ones who are the front lines of ACTUALLY helping women keep from getting raped, as opposed to the slutwalk morons) are publishing books saying that this is exactly when a woman should be feeling nervous.
“Good grief. SO much of this BS could be avoided if it were just required reading for every woman to CAREFULLY read The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker. ”
and
“Seriously, it’s good reading for anyone in this day and age, but menfolk, I strongly recommend you buy this”
Fuck sake. I cannot believe I just bought a book on my kindle based on the recommendation of a woman. What is this world coming to?
“A socially attuned man getting in the elevator with you will automatically stand as far from you as possible, and make himself as unobtrusive as he can. A man walking behind you on a lonely sidewalk will almost always slow down, or alter course so that he is not directly at your back…We all do these things without giving them much thought because we are operating under the same social contract together. ”
Not anymore I don’t.
“I’m a woman and I think it was a bit of an overreaction. Yes, women generally have more to fear than men do, but being alone with any man doesn’t make him a threat. ”
Stephanie said that over on the other link.
And she’s 100% wrong. Women do not generally have more to fear than men. In fact, compared to women, men are far and away THE victims of violent crime.
” ‘A socially attuned man getting in the elevator with you will automatically stand as far from you as possible, and make himself as unobtrusive as he can. A man walking behind you on a lonely sidewalk will almost always slow down, or alter course so that he is not directly at your back…We all do these things without giving them much thought because we are operating under the same social contract together. ‘
Not anymore I don’t.”
I actually think this is probably the case less and less often for lots of men these days, because as the feminists have declared war on traditional gender roles, all the social rules in place to protect women in earlier decades are crumbling. You keep mentioning the men refusing to step onto elevators with a woman alone, and I’m trying to imagine how I would feel if that happened, and I honestly can’t say. I imagine I’d be torn between paranoia that I had forgotten my Lady Speedstick that morning and just general relief that I’m still alone in the elevator. Of course, overall, I’m sad that men feel like they HAVE to do this for fear of false allegations.
“And she’s 100% wrong. Women do not generally have more to fear than men. In fact, compared to women, men are far and away THE victims of violent crime.”
I don’t think she’s quite 100% wrong. It’s true that the victims of violent crime are overwhelmingly male, but it’s also true that in a one-on-one physical attack, the average man is going to be better able to defend himself than the average woman, simply based on average physical strength. So, I think the idea of “more to fear” might be more like “IF I AM attacked on this elevator, there’s a greater certainty that I’m going to lose this fight.”
You can’t conclude that women don’t have more to fear than men because men make up most of the victims of violent crime. It’s faulty probability theory:
If men are more likely to be victims of violent crime than women, this means that if we choose a victim at random, the victim is more likely to be male than female. I suppose you could phrase this as: we should fear for men’s safety more than women’s, in general.
However, in this case, we are not choosing a random victim. The potential victim is fixed — in this case, she’s a woman. Annie L.’s question seems to be: should you be more worried/afraid about the man in an elevator if you are a woman, or if you are a man? You cannot conclude that the woman does not have more to fear from your premise.
Thought experiment: there are two women and 100 men. Each year, one woman and ten men are victims of violent crime. Then men are “far and away” the victims: ten times as many men as women suffer violent crime. However, a woman has a 50 percent chance of being victimized, and a man only has a ten percent chance, so women have more to fear than men. Thus, the reasoning was faulty.
In the example of the elevator, it is faulty for a different reason than demographics: context. The question is not “is a random victim more likely to be male or female?” (which your premise does answer) but rather “given that person X is alone in a confined space with a man, and [a bunch of other information], should person X be more worried if she is a woman than if she is a man?” (which your premise cannot answer). Ms. Watson, in this situation, possessed a great deal more information than just her own sex, and we cannot ignore that information when calculating probabilities, or we’ll get the wrong answer.
For your argument as written, you would have to show that men are the majority of victims of: violent crime, committed by men, in enclosed spaces, when the victim and perpetrator are alone, and the victim is in his/her peak reproductive years, and it’s the middle of the night, and the victim has been drinking, and he/she is in a relatively safe location (a hotel), and the victim has done nothing to provoke an attack…
Plus, as Annie L. just pointed out, you have to factor in the relative ability of men and women to defend themselves from violent crime. With regards to “fearing” an attack, there is a big difference between completed violence and attempted/threatened violence, but both are recorded as violent crime in the NCVS, for example.
Men are not upset about persons disliking gender roles. Men are upset about persons accusing them of shit they’ve never done.
I get to walk on the street. I should not have to get off an elevator just because a woman wants to get on. I refuse the label “rude” because I don’t open a door for a woman and at the same time be called a sexist pig who thinks women cannot open doors for themselves when I DO open the door for a woman.
I had that very conversation with a couple of broads over at mabtw.com. The one insisted that women don’t do this, and I insisted that they do. Well about that moment I wanted to run across the street to the filling station to get a hotta dog and some coke. And talk about fluke of frickin flukes, as I approached the door this woman glared at me, looked from me to the door, and back again, I was across the frickin parking lot for christ sake. So as I approached I got my cell phone out and “texted”. She huffed and opened the door herself and went in.
In England.
It doesn’t make me sad. It makes me angry. Give me 2% of men, that’s all I need and those rights that we men GAVE you, gone. Rights like the right to strip us of our wealth. Rights like the right to be AUTOMATICALLY believed when you accuse a man. Rights like the right to refuse visitation to his children to a man. Rights like Daddy Government giving us ever increasing amounts of shitty socialism, not even the good kind. (The good kind is hot Nordic chicks…) Rights like the right to prevent a man from having a TRUE RANDOM jury his peers DRAWN FROM QUALITY persons, and instead to stack the jury against him. Etc etc.
But you know along with giving up all of these “rights” women are suddenly going to be even more safe than they are now.
What she said was “women generally HAVE MORE to fear than men do”. She did NOT say “women HAVE MORE FEAR than men do.”
I rightly critiqued her claim because her claim is wrong. Fearing more, doesn’t mean you HAVE MORE to fear. Those men that are “better able to defend themselves than women” end up on the receiving end of ALL forms of violence out of proportion to women. They end up beaten more, stabbed more, shot more, tortured more, and killed more often than women.
Now if you want to argue that women DO HAVE MORE FEAR than men, sure go ahead. But that fear is less justified based on the statistics of gender violence, which prove men experience it far more than women.
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IN regards to Unamused statements, the woman I critiqued, though responding on a post about women and elevators, did not say “Yes, women IN ENCLOSED SPACES WITH A MAN have more to fear than men do,”. She said “Yes, women GENERALLY have more to fear than men do,” In fact she then went on to say that being alone with any man doesnt make him a threat. Her statements about the comparison were definitely in regards to what she said, the key word being GENERALLY.
Next you mentioned some ficticious numbers. 2 women, 10 men, etc etc. The actual figures are that women are about 50% of the population and men are about 50% of the population. So these numbers fail in the comparison. You wrap up with:
No it doesn’t beacuse I wasn’t addressing crime in enclosed spaces because Stepanie’s statement wasn’t addressing crime in enclosed spaces. Rather she spoke of women GENERALLY being in more danger than men.
No. I only have to factor in the relative ability of men and women to defend themselves that if I am comparing a SPECIFIC man’s situation. I was not doing so. I was critiquing the claim that WOMEN have more to fear GENERALLY than men. The world is actually a much less dangerous place for women than it is for men. So MEN (not a specific man) have more to fear than women (not a specific woman).