Er no…I grew up in 1970/80 and no woman or young girl walked around on her own in dodgy places like parks or anywhere after dark
level of “stranger” attacks on women is relatively unchanged. In fact all statistics, inc ONS show that rates in that era were higher than now, and peaked during early 1990s, dropping since then . It is reporting and social media reports , that’s increased. Especially reports wanting to drum up the myth that women are massively more unsafe today because of all these “immigrant” men
Yes, rape generally (not just stranger) reporting statistics have increased, but believe you me no women wanted to go to police and report rape in 1980s or before…no female dedicated teams, no rape specialist, no understanding of abuse cycles, and one shit full of misogynistic re traumatising male bullies. think it’s bad now? It was hell then. Police have done a lot to improve. A lot of that increase in rape is from known men/partners/ex partners, including husbands, marital rape wasn’t even made illegal until 1990s. Remember that.
another reminder, it is not men from certain ethnic group that has low standards of consent or violence. Or senses of sexual entitlement. It is all men potentially
and always has been. Heres my reasoning on that one:
in my day it was Yorkshire ripper- attack in my town. White .
in my day I regularly had my bottom pinched by a man my parents trusted to give me and my brothers lifts. My brothers knew and laughed. I didn’t realise it was abuse until 30 years later. I was 8/9 . White male
in my day I got white van men learning out windows making comments re size of my “tits”. I was in my school uniform aged 11. White men
in my day I sat on bus when random man wanked off next to me. I was 16. school uniform . White male.
And every bloody man that has sexual harnessed or abused me in 63 of my life has been white. And yes I’ve lived in ethicnically diverse cities, especially when younger.
there are roughly 72000 men on seX register. Those are just ones that made it to trial, and found guilty. 80% of those are white. Btw just seen 729 of those have recently gone “missing” apparently.
The NCA believes that somewhere between 0.5 and 1.8 MILLION men in uk are looking at illegal child abuse pornography on line. Most will never be found or charged.
over 200,000 men were charged with sexual abuse last year. In one year. But that’s “only” a marginal upward trend becuase of more types of abuse becoming illegal . It’s estimated 80% ish of those are white males. Which oddly is in excesss of the % of white males in overall male Population of uk. Which is a bit odd isn’t it, if your reasoning is correct. Seems like white men are over represented.
i am hoping your husband sees that bigger picture, that men generally are the issue: it aint restricted to one culture, one religion, one moral code, or one skin colour. If he doesn’t, yep, be angry, but that is more about his failure to accept the issue is men universally - and still holds to the “not all men” to opt out of any responsibility
my solution to your dilemma around women’s safety from stranger abuse, is a curfew on men. That’d work. But all men- not just the ethnically diverse ones. 🤷♀️ but it’s easier to tell and expect women to self curfew as you are doing. And we all mostly have during our lives. That appears to have always been perfectly acceptable and encouraged, by our parents, by our teachers, by the police and by society.