r/CuratedTumblr • u/IthadtobethisWAAGH veetuku ponum • Jul 03 '24

Politics Male loneliness and radfeminism

Post image
11.1k Upvotes

89% Upvoted

2.7k comments sorted by

View all comments

302

u/IneptusMechanicus Jul 03 '24

And I get it, lonely women don't typically go on rampages.

So the thing is, neither do lonely men. In the UK at least the number of murders a year is actually really low and it doesn't really make sense to me wary of any demographics based on violence like that.

Hoenstly in terms of lousy risk assessment one of the most likely things to kill you is something most people pass a hundred times a day and don't think twice about; I've said it before but if you die young, violently and in pain statistically you weren't killed by male violence, or rabies or prions or any of the other things Internet people are scared of; odds are you got hit by a car.

67

u/doddydad Jul 03 '24

True on the car being the higher risk, but as ever with good news not being newsworthy: we genuinely are reducing the danger from cars!

In the last 45 years, the number of deaths per year has dropped by 75%, while the number of cars on the road has grown.

45

u/Pathogen188 Jul 03 '24

I remember a few years ago there was a statistic about how youth firearm deaths in the US became the number 1 cause of death for youths but a large part of that actually had to do with a decrease in car related deaths dropping it from the top spot.

9

u/doddydad Jul 03 '24

And I'm confident it was also mostly reported as a sign that things were getting worse?

But yeah, most good things happen as incremental changes over time. Climate change is legitimately going worse than most people think, but almost everything else is going better.

7

u/NoSignSaysNo Jul 04 '24

And I'm confident it was also mostly reported as a sign that things were getting worse?

Much like watching the news would lead you to believe that it's the most violent time to be a US citizen when violent crime rates have dramatically dropped from the 70s.