Oh shit mate, thanks for telling me that! Phew! I mean, I don't watch the news, but my experience as a woman and all women I know is at least one extremely negative interaction with a man. Where we were legitimately in danger. But now I know it was all in my head, thanks!
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Are you being deliberately obtuse? The 'not all men' cry is the same as 'all lives matter'. It's deliberately ignoring the circumstances behind the phrase. Don't be so silly.
... I'm a woman. I've been raped, assaulted, groped, stalked, kerb-crawled, cat-called and intimidated. The majority of my female friends can tick off at least one of the above. As can their friends. And their mothers. And their sisters.
Go talk to a woman, any woman. And believe what they tell you. Don't explain to them that they're just manipulated by the media. Listen to their actual personal experience. Then ask another woman. See if you find a pattern. It won't be their tv viewing, I promise you that.
Genuine question, did it really matter whether he was in his normal house or holiday home? Unless it was a timezone issue or something?
Ugh. That's a long way of saying 'not all men'. Fucking hell, guy.
Haha okay, you've been heard. Fair enough.
Is that why The Wiggles are both colourful and musical?
In highschool, our first reading of R&J wasn't far from the release of Luhrmann's film. You bet there was a bunch of teenagers yelling that at each other at lunch.
We're not females, mate, we're women. And it's not isolated to any country or socio-economic group.
These aren't extremes. They're the lived existence of most women. Like I said, that's a list that most women can identify an instance of that they've experienced.
Your word choice and tone make me think that you aren't a person any woman readily or candidly confides in.
Rape, assault, groping, what have you - that happens everywhere. It's not just a bleak story of post-USSR landscapes and people being carted into trucks; it's ordinary people. Pele with families, with white collar jobs. Suburbs and night clubs. Country roads and city alleys.
I'm not a broken shell of a person. I'm a woman in my late 30s who has experienced trauma at the hands of men I trusted, and from complete strangers. I'm a high income earner, I'm privileged. But every woman I know has experienced something on that list.
Listen to women. Wherever they are, whatever they look like. Stop telling us. We don't need to be told anything.