La quarta bozza / snippets

“Of all the women who reported experiencing a violent crime in 2007, 69 percent of them suffered that crime at the hands of someone they knew (not just intimates). For men, it’s 46 percent — and the vast majority of those are from a friend or acquaintance. So men are more likely to be victims of nearly every crime except rape and sexual assault. Men are more likely to be victimized by a stranger. Women are more likely to be victimized by someone they know, and in private. And yet it’s women who are still routinely warned to not go to certain places, or told not to walk home alone, or advised to carry mace, even though men have more to fear generally when it comes to crime. Men certainly have more to fear when it comes from crime at the hand of strangers. For women, it’s the home — their own or others’ — that’s a danger zone.”