Reply #195: And?

[ismnotwasm]

Who commits the majority of violence? Am I to conclude from your post, that men are violent creatures? Statistically nearly all child molesters are men. Your radio analogy is apt here. Should I conclude all men are child molesters? No.

And that's not what being done in this thread, nor what the OP started with. Your argument is not sound, and is not making sense.

Why the wheel needs to be reinvented every time the topic of feminism or violence against women is brought up--that's what's scary. That's what's frightening. The knee jerk defense of behavior by men who, rather than screaming that's not me, understand, try to understand, what it's like. Just try.

When I was a young girl, I was friends with many male street prostitutes. I remember one young man running out of his apartment screaming. His trick wanted to sodomize him with a knife. He barely escaped. That is graphic, but THAT is the kind of fear women life with. Not the specific act. But that kind of fear.

I know most you don't think you're defending violence or even patriarchy, you think you're defending yourself and other non-violence men. You don't want to be put in a category that perhaps you find horrible. But please, think, think. I look at these threads and see men who probably are decent, but so misguided when it comes to the actual status of women.