> it's usually men who sexually harass drivers... It's too bad that it hurts fragile male egos to read (or skim over, in your case) moral and social commentary

> it's usually men who sexually harass drivers... It's too bad that it hurts fragile male egos to read (or skim over, in your case) moral and social commentary instead of just dishing it out, but all the evidence supports it, so "man up". You may share with the article writer a set of assumptions that makes it easier for you to understand what her point is. No need for hostility. I wrote what I wrote hoping that someone would explain it to me. You correctly deduced that I am a man. As a man who does not sexually harass women and shuts bad behavior down immediately when I see it, I'm baffled by rest of what you say here. My fragile ego? Because I missed the point of the article? I bear responsibility as a civilized human being for my fellow humans, even strangers. But it seems like you're saying that I bear culpability as a man for the behavior of the minority of men who behave violently or reprehensibly, specifically because I'm a man? Am I reading you correctly? If that's your belief, I can understand your hostility. It would seem to you as if I'm denying my personal culpability. If that's a belief shared by the writer, it makes sense now why you understood the article and I did not. To my mind, this kind of thinking is a category error to be avoided. It derives from assuming that, because most of the people who behave badly belong to some group, that therefore most members of that group behave badly. A corollary then is the idea all individuals of that group bear culpability for the actions of their most extreme individuals. As a human being, I bear responsibility to end bad behavior. If I were in a group of drunken men, and someone said something so reprehensible, I would shut it down. If it was a man I knew, I would apologize profusely to the driver, leaving a big tip; I would have a series of seriously uncomfortable conversation with this man in the days and weeks to follow. But that's because I am a civilized human being, not because I bear culpability as a man for his behavior. That's the way I see it, anyway. I have 2 related questions for you. Bear with me, and answer honestly: Are you a man? Do you believe that all men, deep down, are inherently violent rapists?