@XChrome You say that it's unusual for men to be randomly attacked, but it's on a par with stranger sexual assault and unwanted touching, which of course mainly happens to women. The Office of National Statistics says that men are more likely to experience both stranger and acquaintance violence than women. (And we're talking stranger violence here, since we're talking about being harassed or beaten up in a night club.)
TLDR:
Men experience violent crime at a rate of 2.3% as opposed to 1.2% for women. For comparison, sexual assault happens at a rate of 2.1% for all people and unwanted touching has a rate of 2.6% of people.
Tragically, the massive, massive difference in violent crime experienced by men and that experienced by women is concentrated in domestic violence. Outside the home, the rates of crime experienced by men and women are very similar.
I do not even want to think about what that says about marriage and the hatred of women that men take out on their partners, and are therefore probably harbouring against all women.
Sources
2.1% of people aged 16-50 experience sexual assault (scroll down for data source.) There is also a Sky News article that quotes ONS data from 2020 that says 2.6 percent of people experience specifically unwanted touching. Sky News 2020 Crime Data Summary I'm going to bet that most of the unwanted touching is from males to females.
It's interesting to reflect that men have a 2.3% chance of being violently attacked on a night out and women (probably mostly women) have a 2.6% chance of experiencing unwanted touching.
Sex
[This is 2018 data, as I couldn't find this section in the 2024 stats summary. Link ONS Violent Crime Data by Sex 2018]
Men were more likely to be victims of CSEW violent crime than women (2.3% of men compared with 1.2% of women1, Appendix table 1). This was true for all types of violence, with the exception of domestic violence, which showed no significant difference. The year ending March 2018 CSEW showed that:
- stranger violence showed the largest difference in victimisation between men and women (1.4% compared with 0.4% respectively)
- 0.8% of men and 0.6% of women experienced acquaintance violence
Office for National Statistics Crime Data 2024
9.Sexual offences
The Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) self-completion module provides a more reliable measure of long-term trends for sexual offences than police recorded crime data. Latest estimates from the CSEW for year ending (YE) March 2024 showed that 2.1% of people aged 16 years and over had experienced sexual assault (including attempted offences), no change from YE March 2023 (2.1%).
For analysing long-term trends, we use the 16 to 59 years age range to give a comparable time series. Although there is year-to-year volatility in these estimates, over the last 10 years there has been an increase in sexual assault. The CSEW for YE March 2024 estimated 2.6% of people aged 16 to 59 years had experienced sexual assault (including attempted offences) in the last year compared with 1.5% in YE March 2014.