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WWGSD
Lv 6
WWGSD asked in Social ScienceGender Studies · 7 years ago

How safe is your country for Men?

I saw a similar question asked for women, and I feel it needs to be asked for the other half of humanity. Please frame your answer around the following points.

1) Domestic violence

2) Violent crimes, such as rape and murder

3) Physical or verbal harassment in public

4) Harassment and safety hazards in the work place

5) Faith in police and law enforcement

6) Healthcare

While answering, please mention your country as well.

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    1) Figures show that women initiate over 60% of DV incidents, but suffer 60% of the more serious injuries as a result. Under current 'rules' of what constitutes DV - men suffer massively more than women from personal insult, abuse, deprivation of desires etc.

    2) Men suffer about 2% of rapes as far as I know (I exclude prison rapes as a separate issue - some estimate these at 300,000 annually in the US and at a massively higher rate than rape in the general community - around 15% of inmates as compared to 0.05% in the general community) - however rape is THE minority incidence crime. Massively more men than women are murdered.

    3) Men suffer much more harassment and verbal assault at any time any where than women do.

    4) Men are harassed in the workplace by unceasing demands to abide by any whim of any woman or 'boss', are actively intimidated by these same groups (that is the real reason for this stuff), and suffer massively higher injury rates than women in work do.

    5) Any man with any mind would have zero faith in police and law enforcement since those have been suborned by government and its feminist running dogs as the avenue for oppressing men in the West by direct assault on rights and person.

    6) Healthcare funding for specific issues is massively geared towards women's issues - there is some argument that women are more complex - however - the continuing lower death age for men tends to indicate otherwise. In my country, however - most get more than a fair go in the fairly 'mechanical' things - such as heart problems. But my lady cousin died of cancer and could not get a drug treatment that might have helped due to cost. It is not a simple issue.

    Australia what once was....... now declining into the West like all the rest of The West....

  • 7 years ago

    America.

    Our country is very diverse sir so this question varies from state to state.

    In my county

    1. 12,000 vehicle, home, and crime rate violations and damage.

    2. 725 assaults, 34 murders, 79 rapes, 791 roberries a year.

    3. More of the hrassament is social status

    4. Pretty safe work place

    5. More or less

    6. Good

    city-rating dot com has statistics for every state

  • ?
    Lv 5
    7 years ago

    1) Males are 40% of domestic violence

    2) Males are over 90% of all murders, 216,000 men are raped in prison each year

    3) Physical violence and verbal harassment happens to males

    4) 93% of workplace hazards happen to males

    5) Police mostly target males

    6) Awareness for male health problems like prostate cancer is very low

  • 7 years ago

    For men who choose to not engage in illegal activities or take high injury risk careers it is quite safe in the USA.

    1: Domestic violence is a more gray area because it varies based on state how it is defined. However even if the most moderate statistics are correct, males are safer from it than females are.

    2: Rape does happen to men, though it most commonly occurs in prisons, committed by other men. Murder is much more common to happen to males than females, but again alot of this comes from prisons, or men who are engaging in illegal activities (such as gangs and drugs).

    3/4: Harassment can happen to anyone, and the statistics on it are not well tracked. Sexual harassment in the workplace however has been statistically less frequent when directed at males.

    5: As a whole, the police in the USA are not supposed to give preferential treatment to anyone based on their gender. But I'm sure this varies wildly.

    6: I'm not even touching this one. There are many problems with the healthcare systems, regardless of your gender.

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  • ?
    Lv 6
    7 years ago

    I think everyone regardless of their gender is somewhat likely to be a victim of crime at sometime in their lives. There is all different types of crime, in some cases men are more likely to be victims and in others women. I doubt I could say anybody is 100% safe from criminals.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    Canada

    1. Domestic abuse

    "According to their responses, almost equal proportions of men and women (7% and 8% respectively) had been the victims of intimate partner physical and psychological abuse (18% and 19% respectively)" (Source1)

    However, in terms of violence and its consequences women got it much worse. "Intimate partner violence, which was nearly four times higher for women, was characterized by physical assaults and the use of physical force rather than weapons. About half (51%) of female victims of intimate partner violence suffered some type of injury" (Source 2)

    2. The murder rate in 2012 was the lowest in 50 years. (source 3) This is one third of the rate for men in the USA.

    In the majority of homicides last year (84 per cent), murder victims were killed by someone they knew, typically a family member or acquaintance. There were 82 homicides committed by an intimate partner – 83 per cent involved a female victim.

    3) Physical or verbal harassment in public

    4) Harassment and safety hazards in the work place

    5) Faith in police and law enforcement

    Could find nothing about these for men

    6) Healthcare

    We have public funded healthcare so there should be few issues that are gender specific. Long waits to see doctors is a common complaint but this applies equally to everyone.

    I would say men fare pretty well in Canada.

  • Kiki
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    In Canada;

    1) Victims of domestic violence are usually not male, aggressors are usually male. We also do not have too many services for victims of DV, so often we have battered wives having to resort to vigilante justice, to stop the violence.

    2) Men are not likely to be raped or raped and murdered. Men are very likely to be murdered. The risk increases with certain activities, including but not limited to criminal activity.

    3) Verbal harassment is experienced more by non-males, while physical aggression is experienced more by males. Sexual harassment and sexual assault are experienced far more by women and children. Men are by far the most common perpetrators of those crimes...

    4) Harassment is experienced more often by females. Safety hazards are experienced more by people working in dangerous jobs (you don't have to be male to work in construction...)

    5) That is contingent on several factors; race, culture, class, gender, and involvement in criminal activity. A white law-abiding man is likely to trust the police much more than a First Nations woman, who has to report a mugging that occurred in a poor neighbourhood.

    6) In Canada, we have universal healthcare. This is available to all citizens of Canada. No one is denied access to necessary medical care.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    7 years ago

    In the USA violent crime, most if which is directed against men, is considerably higher than most of the rest of the West. And 93% of all occupational deaths are men.

  • 7 years ago

    My country is unsafe for men because currently there are many sexist opinions on men and how men should behave.

    Also in the legal system theres is a bias against men

    Source(s): oh yea my country is the USA btw
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