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As a man, I find it absurd and even dangerous to not attach some stigma to men. That you feel the need to invoke "dangerous savages" is maybe your own prerogati
by standardUser 1y ago
As a man, I find it absurd and even dangerous to not attach some stigma to men. That you feel the need to invoke "dangerous savages" is maybe your own prerogative, but by any sober and fact-based analysis it is indisputable that women are justified in acting cautiously when dealing with strange men.
- fsckboy 1y agomothers are more than twice as likely as fathers to kill their children. and the same is true for child abuse and neglect. humans in general act like psychos, the danger comes more from the size differential than propensity to act like a jerk.
- standardUser 1y agoMost violence is perpetrated by men. If you're only response to that hard, cold fact is some stat about infanticide, maybe you're not honestly grappling with the issue.
- throwawayq3423 1y agoMost violence is perpetrated by men, but men are also equal victims.
- throwawayq3423 1y agoI just looked it up, 5,000 women were the victims of homicide last year. 13,000 men were. So, unequal.
- huhkerrf 1y agoAnd yet domestic violence is equally done by men and women, except that most men don't report the abuse because of people like you who act like it doesn't happen. It's disappointing. You bring up fact based analyses. Let's see what they have to say. > Over two hundred studies found that men and women perpetrate intimate partner violence at roughly equivalent rates, depending on where the samples are drawn from, and what level of violence is identified. (Dutton and Nicholls, 2005). https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/if-love-could-kill/202412/women-as-intimate-partner-violence-perpetrators/amp https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog...
- throwanem 1y agoI'm justified in acting cautiously when dealing with strange pit bulls, too. That isn't the same as saying pit bulls deserve to be stigmatized. Or I don't think it is.