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"Men too" is not an answer, because the harassment and threats that women face is disproportionate to what men face.
No, men face actual violence rather than mere threats. Have you seen assault numbers broken down by gender? Murder numbers?
How old where you when you first feared to be raped?
12, since you ask. I had to fight off four attackers. Luckily they were too focussed on achieving penetration to actually work out how to immobilise me.
A significant portion of women in the western world has endured sexual abuse and probably still bears the scars of that.
So I'm meant to do what about it exactly?
Yes, men are also abused. It is a problem, but it's nowhere as common and nowhere as socially acceptable.
Abuse of women is not socially acceptable where I live, where I work, where I go out at night. Maybe you should move to a better country.
Then again, maybe I should. Abuse of men is socially acceptable, when it's merely verbal.
Your experience is not the same as those of the opposite gender.
Deal with it.
I can and do deal with it. I'm just fucked off with the pretense that women have it so much worse.
He probably wouldn't have reported it. Men don't usually report minor (in the sense of no visible physical injury) incidents of assault and battery unless they were looking for any ammunition they could use against someone (i.e. they really hate the attacker and want to get back at them).
Yeah, I didn't report the assault I received from a woman in the workplace.
I did make notes of the incident and keep them offsite, for fear that she'd complain about me for my response to the assault - I turned and told her that if she did that again I'd punch her in the face.
She didn't report it, so I didn't bother to report it either. She was a very sexist person though.
There's no territory in the world where it's illegal to carry a modest-size knife.
Will they have to buy a new one every year?
No, but the first one will turn out to be a cheap knockoff with out of date hardware that only gets a tenth of the advertised resolution and fails to work when it's cloudy outside.
Also the user manual will be so bad, they won't figure out how to use it until 2045.
When you have an Empire, you must distinguish the "Homeland" from the "Colonies".
Oh, so you're normal are you? I guess that makes the rest of us the fucking freaks?
Fuck you and your normality.
Just because the average gamer is now mature doesn't mean that there isn't a sizeable population of wankers out there too.
Anyway, what's wrong with the word 'fuck'? I use it daily, in the office, and it would be sexist of me to try and avoid it in front of my female colleagues.
Scattering musing to the winds....
Seriously if you have a giant beard, a chest like a bear and chop down trees on the weekend with your massive axe, haul them back home on your shoulders then break them over your head before lighting them on fire with a welding torch, I would say that's about the most manly thing one could do and no one is going to keep that in check.
Pretty much, yeah. Though I don't actually get to grow a beard unless I'm either on leave or deployed overseas, so I guess you got me there.
Of course, if you had a functional sense of humour you would have realized that my "manliness" comment was tongue-in-cheek. The fact that I do cut down trees with an axe and light them up with a blowtorch is just an amusing coincidence.
Firstly, no chick ever grabbed your ass at comic con
Sure, just go ahead and deny my experiences. Next you'll try to tell me that I deserved it because I was wearing a kilt. Victim blaming is always popular, especially when the victim is male.
So the evidence is now so overwhelming that you cannot continue to deny the evidence, so you now move on to claiming it's somehow "insignificant".
I've never denied the evidence. You may have me confused with a strawman you constructed. If you're going to argue with him, why address your response to me?
That said, I'd imagine that penetrative rape - the type commonly suffered by females - is a lot more traumatic.
Assuming a completely unwilling and unaroused victim, yes, I very much suspect it would be. However, feminists and victim-advocacy groups have spent the last couple decades telling us that "rape is rape" and that they're all equally bad, so it would be a bit hypocritical for them to now start screaming "BUT WE HAVE IT WORSE!".
You seem to have imagined a generalized assumption of my circumstances.
I associate cheating with an abstract action, I associate stealing with a concrete action. Either will put you in harms way, in arms reach.
Yes, the problem is age old and universal no matter what government, class, walk of life, religion it is filtered through. In my case, even with a job I had just acquired that paid MORE, I found myself in circumstances brought about by the actions of others that had me losing 100 lb in 3 months, not due to drug use, but starvation so my woman and child could survive as I plotted an escape by whatever means presented themselves, in an unfriendly environment. I stole, I conned, I inadertantly wound up mugging an attacker for his wallet and left him with no front teeth and a broken nose. unconscious in FRONT of a bar in a major city.I cheated many, some deserved it, some probably deserved it, some didn't. It was winter and our fuel was stolen, even as I dodged rent and saved every penny to get us and a few items to a safe place in a distant city. I gave up my possessions, used up my resources and we survived. In the good ol' U.S.
Yes, most of my "victims" were those who put me in my circumstances, others I just scammed money from. I've tried to pay it forward over time, but, if you are ever REALLY there, you will too.
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