Except there is. In all of my experiences, only maybe once has it been about something a guy would be targeted for as well (money, essentially a mugging).

Every other time it's been guys trying to set up a rape or otherwise targeting me because I'm female. If they wanted to rob me they'd grab my purse and take off. If they wanted to beat me up for no reason there wouldn't be talking and sneaking around beforehand. It wouldn't be "hey pretty lady" or "what are you doing out here alone, honey?" No, it's always been about me being a woman and them looking for a woman to do bad things with.

And sure, the title of the post makes it seem like OP is just saying he thinks the fears are equal. Let me add a little more fear to the mix.

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Say all this shit happens and you ARE raped. Now there's a whole new pile of horrors. Aside from any other physical injuries, rape often means really gnarly damage to your hoohah, sometimes to the point of needing reconstructive surgery. In some cases, rapists don't just use fingers and dicks, but they'll use other objects or even weapons (knives, gun barrels, etc) which is even more terrifying.

You now have the emotional toll of having been raped thrown into your life, which quickly affects your perceptions and fear even more, and can make consensual sex in relationships so much harder to be okay with.

If you're raped, you're suddenly having to worry about being pregnant with a child of your rapist(s), and if that happens, now not only is it about the fact that you were assaulted once, but now you either have to drag it into the moral minefield of abortion, or carry and raise a child who is the product of rape, which is another scary thought for us.

You might not end up pregnant, but could easily get an STD, if it's treatable that extends your trauma well past the treatment period, if it's not treatable now you deal with that for life, and in all your relationships.

Throw statistics at me all you want, but all of these things are very possible and extremely terrifying for women. And they are not nearly as much of a concern for men as they are for women. And they are all running through our heads when we think about going out alone at night and possibly running into a creepy stranger.