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Oh yeah, I didn't mean to imply one group had it worse than the other. Just that a lot of women believe women are significantly more targeted with random violence in public, which is not supported by the stats.It's been a long time since I looked into it, but from what I recall men are disproportionately the victims of random violent assaults, and women are disproportionately the victims of all flavours of sexual assault.
Women are almost always assaulted (sexually or otherwise) by someone known to them --contrary to the popular myth of the rapist behind every blade of grass, stranger crimes of that nature are very rare, probably because they're considerably more risky-- whereas I'd imagine the majority of regular assaults are muggings or gang-related.
At the end of the day, though, trying to have a pissing contest for who has it worse is counterproductive. All forms of assault are unacceptable (unless it's a troon trying to creep into a woman's space, then you should lay that motherfucker out).
Like in my city, a few years ago, some guy was randomly decked in the back of the head with a brick. That type of crime happens very rarely to women. Or one time, I was randomly popped in the mouth by randos on the street. I couldn't eat solid food for a week. Or that shithead who attacked Rick Moranis. Etc, etc. (I know these are anecdotes, not data, but the data is out there.)
There's like a very specific type of shithead who thinks it's funny to do those things, and they seem to prefer men as targets. (Same kind of shitheads who fuck with homeless people.)
(As you note, women are instead subjected to different types of violent crime, particularly sexual crime from people they know.)