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In reply to the discussion: Of bears and men: How big does a risk have to be before you "have to" walk around scared? [View all]Ocelot II
(116,598 posts)and people experienced or even saw those incidents, they might start re-evaluating their risk and become more afraid of flying. Fatal plane crashes are very rare these days, so the likelihood of being killed in one is minuscule. But if you started reading NTSB reports (and not everything even makes it into an NTSB report) and learned that things happen in airplanes every day that don't result in accidents - but could have - you might think differently about flying. You might conclude that the risk is far greater than you thought.
It's not an exact analogy, but women experience non-physical, or at least non-penetrative, sexual attacks from men every day. Most are verbal or symbolic - catcalls, gestures, insults, offers to perform some sex act on them, flashing - and mostly these aren't even reported, but when they happen over and over they add up to a pervasive sense of danger from men, that there is a risk of something much more serious. All women know this and we don't need mansplaining about statistics. We know the risk is real.