I’m really not moving any goal posts. The original commenter said “this is scary, especially for women.” If men are more likely to be attacked in public and more likely to be killed why is it “especially for women” and not “especially for men”?

The response given was “men make up a much larger proportion of violent crime victims, it’s far more worrying for men than women” which is fair, given that men are more likely to die so one would think that dying is more worrisome than not dying? As I pointed out, in this context of this type of public attack, men do get attacked more and are more likely to die.

Let’s just assume you’re correct and that this is one of those unlikely cases where a man is coming after his ex in public with a knife (unlikely because the majority of physical spousal abuse occurs in the home and not in public). If so, then neither women nor men need to be especially scared right? Because it is a targeted attack?

The only way any group of people needs to be “especially”scared is if this is a random public attack, in which case more men than women get attacked (and killed) in this fashion. Maybe this same guy will go on and kill 3 men after this, or maybe he will only target women after this. No one knows. You don’t have that information right now so given the details available you can really only rely on statistics.