That is also not true.

I live in Australia, I take public transport to work, used to do so for school and university, and I have never been subjected to sexual violence, and I've only been harassed once, as a teenager. I don't know if it's so radically different in London, Paris or NY, but I would be surprised. I also haven't seen anyone else be sexually harassed or violated on public transport, if I did I would step in.

99.9% of the time I step on a bus or train, everyone is just on their phone or listening to music. Barely anyone looks at each other, let alone approaches a stranger.

Is Australia like an unbelievably safe country? I doubt it.

I do wonder what the survey that had the 97% really defined as sexual violence.

Also - given the thousands of people you encounter in public, every day, over years and years, the chances are you've walked past, sat next to etc - hundreds of thousands if not millions of people. If ONE of those people is a rapist and abuser who is a serial offender, then the fact someone has experienced harrassment or violence in their lifetime, doesn't mean that 97% of of men have been responsible.

Even the statistic about 1 in 3 women having experienced abuse at the hands of a partner, almost always they have had multiple partners across their life because most PEOPLE have multiple relationships over the course of their life. In Australia the average number of sexual partners someone will have in their life is 13.3. If one of them is an abuser, and that abuser also abuses others in every single one of their relationships, that means that 1 person caused the abuse to 13 people. That means that the statistics around abusers needs to be very careful before we assume that every or even most men are physically abusive.