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In reply to the discussion: Men should be offended . . . [View all]Demo_Chris
(6,234 posts)Down here in Texas it is common to see signs warning motorists that bridges ice before regular road surfaces. The reason for these signs is to inform and warn drivers. The signs are not intended to be insulting to anyone, let alone all drivers (as the OP suggests); it's just a sign warning that certain conditions warrant extra care and attention.
Along the same lines, people are statistically far more likely to be attacked in dark locations than in well lit ones, and they are more likely to be attacked when alone, or intoxicated, or both. I'm sure you get the point. It's just statistics. Pointing these facts out is not blaming women or condemning men. The information is not even terribly interesting or surprising.
What is interesting is the effort by some to deny that this reality exists, because -- through some convoluted post hoc logical fallacy -- they have concluded that warning of a correlation equates to assigning blame for causation. The failure here is not with reality or the statistics, but the lack of logical thinking.