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Sure but there's a world of difference between "women need to be cautious around men" and "all men are predators". One is an unfortunate but reasonable statement while the other is a discriminatory generalization. The former could honestly just be rephrased as "people need to be cautious around strangers" and it would be just as accurate.
The problem with statistics like "There's a sexual assault every 68 seconds" is that they sound really bad but you can do essentially the exact same exercise with any sufficiently large population and come up with similarly scary sounding numbers. E.G. There's a car crash every 13 seconds.
As for the bear analogy, while I'm sure there are plenty of circumstances in which a individual bear wouldn't attack someone, as you spend more time around any given bear the likelihood of it attacking you approaches 100% even more so when taken as a population. The same does not hold true around men. There are billions of men on this planet the vast overwhelming majority of which are not a danger to women.
Just like the example of African American crime there's a lot more to this statistic. For instance is that number so high because most men don't report sexual assaults therefore skewing the number of women sexual offenders down? There are lots of complicating societal factors there. Regardless that doesn't justify the sweeping generalization that "all men are predators" or even the slightly weaker "most men are predators", as very obviously the majority are not.
The longer a woman lives, the more men she comes in contact with, and the statistical likelihood of meeting a dangerous man goes up.
You say "all men are predators" is discriminatory, but for a lot of women it is the only way to drive the point home to their daughters, who may hear "you have to be careful around strangers" and then let their guard down when a predator plays the long game.
Also, children are often sexually abused by family members or friends. So careful around strangers is not sufficient.
Does it suck to hear "All men are predators" if you're a good one? Sure. But at the same time, people have no issues claiming all brown guys are terrorists or illegals. Or women are gold diggers. Or whores.
Humans always generalize. It's just (white) men having been on top of the food chain in the modern society for so long that they feel things are being taken away from them when other groups demand true fairness and equal treatment.