Getting stabbed in a dark park seems like a pretty universal fear that isn’t determined by your gender. Most people getting stabbed are men, if we just go by homicide statistics.
I’m not trying to draw parallels, I’m literally talking about the likelyhood of getting stabbed in a dark park. How does domestic violence factor into that scenario? On the other hand, I wonder how underreported domestic violence cases are compared between genders.
Both the song and the comment you’re replying to are referring to an old quote.
It’s attributed to Margeret Atwood, but she got it from somewhere earlier because she said, “I don’t remember where I first heard this simple description of one dramatic contrast between the genders, but it is strikingly accurate: At core, men are afraid women will laugh at them, while at core, women are afraid men will kill them.”
It’s one of those things that gets recycled a lot. It’s in the tv program about the strangler in Belfast.
I wanna walk through the park in the dark
Men are scared that women will laugh at them
I wanna walk through the park in the dark
Women are scared that men will kill them
-Courtney Barnett. Nameless, Faceless
Getting stabbed in a dark park seems like a pretty universal fear that isn’t determined by your gender. Most people getting stabbed are men, if we just go by homicide statistics.
In 2022, the FBI reported that there were 14,441 victims of murder who identified as male, compared to 4,251 victims of murder who identified as female in the United States. A further 93 murder victims were of an unknown gender in that year.
In 2022, about 442,754 women were raped or sexually assaulted in the U.S. - an increase from the previous year. In that same year, 89,053 men were raped or sexually assaulted, also a significant increase compared to the year before.
So, really, I guess it depends on whether “stabbed” here is a euphemism or not.
Most victims of violence are men – most victims of DOMESTIC violence (or intimate partner violence) are women.
I’m not trying to draw parallels, I’m literally talking about the likelyhood of getting stabbed in a dark park. How does domestic violence factor into that scenario? On the other hand, I wonder how underreported domestic violence cases are compared between genders.
Both the song and the comment you’re replying to are referring to an old quote.
It’s attributed to Margeret Atwood, but she got it from somewhere earlier because she said, “I don’t remember where I first heard this simple description of one dramatic contrast between the genders, but it is strikingly accurate: At core, men are afraid women will laugh at them, while at core, women are afraid men will kill them.”
It’s one of those things that gets recycled a lot. It’s in the tv program about the strangler in Belfast.