I like society’s idea that women should be protected.
Fact is: we are not as physically strong as men. If a women walks out alone she is in danger. Especially when it comes to things such as traveling. (If you’ve ever seen the movie Taken..)
I remember sitting down at a restaurant one time with my Grandmother and she told me that 17 years before, she was asked to leave. Used to, a women sitting by herself was seen as a prostitute. At least its not that bad anymore.
ah, i think this deserves the “i can see you’re point, but i still think you’re full of shit” award. and of course, it contains the classic “It’s gotten better so why should we complain now?” argument.
The problem lies not in women walking around by themselves but people who seek to take advantage of them. Your point is completely victim-blaming; by your argument if something were to happen to a woman while she was walking alone, it is her fault, not the perpetrator’s, while the blame should be placed solely on the perpetrator for, well, perpetrating. Also, why do you like “society’s idea that women should be protected”?
In addition, men are not always physically stronger than women, and even if many are, that doesn’t mean they are all out to harm every woman who is walking by herself.
Being a man doesn’t give you physical strength, it’s perfectly possible to be a weak man or a strong woman. This is some classic weaker sex bullshit. And then there’s this classic line: “At least it’s not that bad anymore.”
Black people used to be slaves! At least it’s not that bad anymore.
YAY EQUALITY REACHED
Right and right, as always lighthouse. I’m not even going to get started on the “at least it’s not that bad” bullshit. But what I will say is regardless of the male species aptitude for being physically stronger (which is debatable anyhow, especially depending on your definition of strong) we shouldn’t need to feel the need to protect womyn more than men. There shouldn’t be a threat to womyn’s safety, the amount of crimes and violations against womyn need to be eliminated. It’s like when people blame rape victims—“she shouldn’t have worn that short skirt”, etc. Womyn are not the issue, rapists need to be stopped.
so this is all true, but also, with the exception of rape and other forms of sexual assault - men are more likely to be victims of violent crimes than women, according to the bureau of justice statistics, like, if you want to find me some stats more legit than those to argue this with me, i’ll wait, but: seriously. 78% of murder victims are male. okay? and - there are a lot of very complicated reasons why that happens, i’m sure (like, off the top of my head, it could be that a lot of murders and other violent crimes happen as a result of involvement in organized crime, and it could further be the case that men are more likely to be involved in organized crime), and i’m not saying violence against women isn’t a major issue.
i’m just saying - if there is evidence out there that a woman walking out by herself is in more danger than a man, “in more danger” meaning “more statistically likely to fall victim to violent crime”… i invite you to show it to me, because i don’t see it in my admittedly cursory glance at the numbers here. especially when you consider that most instances of rape/sexual assault are actually NOT random acts of violence committed on women out walking by themselves, but are perpetrated by someone the victim knows - i.e., “walking by yourself” is not even remotely relevant to the problem here. like, men are probably statistically safer in a room with an acquaintance of the opposite sex than women are, that’s probably a fact. but out by themselves? …not convinced.
(anecdotally, back at harvard we got an email whenever there was a mugging on or near campus, and the victims were either always or nearly always male. this is not actually relevant, because of how the plural of anecdote is not data, but it used to come up a lot in conversations with my mom who would get freaked out about me heading out to the 24-hour deli in porter square when i needed something to get me through an all-nighter at 3 in the morning - IF I WERE MY BROTHER WOULD YOU BE WORRIED ABOUT ME? NO? WELL YOU’D BE WRONG, HE’S PROBABLY MORE AT RISK THAN I AM.)
(Source: sonicyouthofficial, via girlytree)
