Quote:
|
Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
What makes me sad is you truly missed my point. I am trying to tell you that men live in fear of other men as much as women live in fear of men, its just more subtle and machismo causes most men to deny it. A misunderstanding or a fist fight can turn into a life or death struggle in one second's time. I am telling you that men have fear of other men as much as women have fear of other men. It makes me sad that you would try to deny the significance of this. Simply put, men kill and seriously injure each other all the time. Isn't FEAR OF DYING SIMILAR TO FEAR OF BEING RAPED?
Yes, precisely my point. You are saying men don't understand what women experience because of women's fear of sexual violence, I am telling you that is full of shit, because men are equally and constantly afraid of other men for similar threats of violence and even loss of life. If you can't understand that, I am sorry, but it doesn't make it any less true.
Really? So people getting beat into a coma, stabbed, or shot dead in the street over a misunderstanding is just regular now? Who is trying to normalize what now 
You need to step back from your computer, pause, breath, and reflect, because you are letting your anger and emotions get the better of your argument. |
I'm sorry, I posted data there.
You should comment on it.
When I said "regular" violence, you know for a fact I meant non-sexual violence. You cannot compare the fear of being mugged with the fear of being raped.
Especially because rape happens a lot more often than murder, and in most cases, is not punished. In most cases, the victim is somehow blamed and there is no justice.
http://www.alternet.org/civil-libert...t-bite-kick-or
If you had read the data, you'd see that most men are killed outside their homes. Most women are killed inside their homes.
You'd also see that 50% of women killed in the US are killed by intimate partners, while that is 5% for men.
You'd also see that violence against women has been INCREASING.
So why has it been increasing?
I'm truly shocked at how you normalize sexual violence and the state of terror it causes.
Every time I go out and I hear some funny comment from a stranger, cat calling?
You think that's not violence? Not something to fear?
Perhaps you think it's a compiment?
For us, it's a threat.
Also, how many times do you hear about people being murdered and having the juri discuss how much of the murder was the person's fault or the fault of what he was wearing?
So, you can't compare living in a state of terror in which whatever violent act done against you is blamed on you.