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Per the statistics of violent behavior men should not be around other men.
Men are statistically more likely to be violent than all other groups defined by gender.
However, there are far better groupings of humans to use when it comes to predisposition for violence than "gender" (for example, "people espousing rightwing ideologies" display a higher tendency for violent behavior) and the thing that needs questioning here is why the German police association chief purposefully chose to use a grouping of humans with a lower correlation to violent behavior rather than one whose members are far more likely to engage in violent behavior, and the same questioning applies to the "journalist" that wrote the article.
This shit stinks of "stirring identitarianism to avoid pointing finger at certain specific groups".
because it's low hanging fruit and easy stereotyping that plays into people's irrational fears. people like having their biases confirmed.
the social script in western societies is largely 'woman good, man bad'. and westerners generally agree with that that bias.
As I indirectly pointed out with my first paragraph, even if we don't dispute the choice of this specific overgeneralistic segmentation of people to talk about violence, it's still intellectually dishonest: men aren't specifically more violent towards women than towards other men.
In fact the statistics show that men are the main victims of violence committed by men.
Further, to me this whole "advice", especially coming from an important police official, has a stink of "don't dress slutty to avoid getting raped".
It should be about reducing criminality, not about telling potential victims to be less free with their own behaviors (how typical of the German authorities) so that they're less likelly to be victims, and guess what's important in reducing criminality: narrowing your scope to the most likely criminal element so as to focus more resources on them.
That's what's behind the main point of my post.
lmao. What type of men are statistically more likely to be violent than all other groups of men ? We all know it s sure wasnt the case 10 or 20 year ago but if you say so it s a big no no and german police come after you. Kinda remind me of why they tooke so much timee about new year incident in cologne 10 year ago already.
Poor men, because the rich men have written tbe was so that their violence is not considered criminal.
Either your aren't aware about what I'm talking about either it s sad and dishonest. Poverty doesn't force you to be violent toward women in case you dont know or have never experienced poverty
Oh you're just shifting the conversation towards violence against women in particular. Ignoring violence against men and using that ad a cover fke your own thinly veiled racist dogwhistles. Cool stuff.
Oh no he s sexist racist etc for noticing that importing a large group of ppl from the most violent and sexist continent at a rate so high you dont have the time to assimilate them has an impact on violence and sexism.