****A woman who is confident and looks confident is much less likely to be attacked on the street****
You have absolutely no evidence for this assertion. It's what you've read in hate-male "every man is a rapist" manuals that have political agendas.
****simply because the rapist/mugger/whatever is not in that business for the thrill of risk and danger.****
He is likely to come from the same class of people who join gangs/engage in gang warfare or who engage in games of "chicken" in their automobiles or take extraordinary amounts of illegal substances or engage in any number of dangerous pastimes for the "thrill of risk and danger" -- and in the context that we are talking about, he is just as likely to find the prospect of resistance titillating.
****Where your bitterly curled lip originates****
From the top of my mouth, of course, and it also originates in response to "hate male" propaganda.
**** I cannot guess unless you are a mugger/rapist****
I'm a criminal defense attorney who often interviews dangerous people in custody as part of my profession.
Where your own bitterly curled lip originates, I cannot guess unless it results from the application of too much lipstick.
Stalker type rapists, those who attack lone women on the street, are not gang types. They are mostly loners. Gangsters tend to do their raping in bars or parties or in in groups. They are rather less dangerous to the woman on the street or in a parking lot than the lone vert looking for an easy one. I cannot fathom where your attitudes come from if you are not simply bitter at the idea of a woman making herself less of a target. And it has nothing to do with any malephobia. A couple of predatory verts in a city can scare the female population pretty seriously. You have some serious problems of your own to work out.