By leaps and bounds actually. Men make up roughly 75% of murder victims.

Heh! You really think that’s true? I must have missed the encouragement.

You missed the point while foaming at the mouth: Because men are murdered at a much higher rate by other men, those murdered by their SOs end up being down in the noise for stats, even though in terms of absolutes women and men murder their SOs in similar numbers.

No it wasn’t derailing. It was a refutation that women have something special to worry about with this.

No, I never got my license.

It seems irrational to constantly be in fear of your significant other murdering you. Significantly more people in the United States die every year from choking, and I’m not afraid of eating food.

Stop right there. First off, it doesn’t say who broke up with whom, so let’s not assume. Secondly, I know this is Jezebel, but let’s not allow our immediate reaction to a tragedy be to use it to further our own ideologies. I mean, you’re not wrong, but that’s not the point; in the wake of a tragedy, it’s natural to…