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A non-trivial percentage of women are physically larger and stronger than a non-trivial percentage of men, yet those smaller men are not scared to walk alone at night for fear of running across a large woman.

The real hard truth is that some men assault women. The problem is that the assaulters look like every other man, meaning women can't target their fears at just the bad men.




> A non-trivial percentage of women are physically larger and stronger than a non-trivial percentage of men, yet those smaller men are not scared to walk alone at night for fear of running across a large woman.

This is just not true. Larger yes, but the percentage of women who are stronger than even a weak man is vanishingly small.


I'm on the lowest percentile of height, and I fear NO woman. I don't have big muscles, I just know there's a difference not only in raw strength, but in animosity and aggression during a fight.

You think small men are afraid at night of a large woman jumping at them? That's a joke.


The percentage of women that are physically stronger than men is extremely small. Negligibly small.

But also true, men are more violent.


For reference, if you take upper body strength as an indicator for this you see the small amount of overlap between the distributions:

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Upper-body-isometric-str...


That overlap is the "death by snu-snu" zone and honestly most of those small men would be more than happy for those women to be physical with them


A small % of strongest women are as strong as the weakest "men".


Yes correct, I like to show these kind of graphs because a lot of people (not saying you) do no realize how little overlap there is between the distributions.




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