
I’ve had a similar experience where a few friends confided in me that made it more real for me. Will def make me very protective of my future daughter. However I will say when that guy mentioned a girl will even run into guys “like his friends growing up”. I am not friends with creepy or otherwise dangerous guys. In some circles it’s probably seen as normal but just don’t be in those circles
Like I’ve never really liked the term patriarchy because in my eyes it views it as a “societal” problem instead of creepy men who need to face the consequences of their actions. If the focus is more on personal accountability, there will be more deterrents or more consistently applied punishments that will hopefully help to decrease it.
I think most “man hating” is very much an online thing. Especially online people tend to exaggerate or say crazy stuff for clicks so if they are trying to bring attention to like sexual assault against women by men they’ll say some broad generalization. It’s not right but it’s not worth taking it personally just focus on being a good person yourself
I know it’s a late comment but yeah I see it. I think a lot of it probably has to do with, sort of a reluctance to call out a pejorative group you’re in. Like, a lot of white people get uncomfortable if you talk about the history of colonialism with stuff like ‘white people enslaved the world for hundreds of years’ because it feels wrong. I think probably there’s a similar issue with getting men on board with this idea. It’s hard to think ‘men are dangerous’ if you’re a man.
Because women don’t need men to protect themselves from those things lmao. The most significant thing a man can protect a woman from is other men. That’s what this whole video is about, the creepy guy didn’t stop until he came back. Saying “what happened to we don’t need no men” is galling because it’s men who cause these problems in the first place. Now this is the part that many men get defensive about, because they take it personally rather than noticing, “yeah, a lot of men are shitty”
The reason you “don’t need men to protect yourselves from those things” is because men spent literally thousands of years inventing and building the vast infrastructure of civilization from scratch for the comfort of their wives and children. The fact that you see other men as your single greatest threat in life is really a testament to just how much we have done for you.