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Mango@lemmy.world 6 months agoWanna be safe from men? Do it the same way men do. Be able to handle yourself when you need to and don’t worry about it the rest of the time. Women having to listen to men and be confronted with reality is not mansplaining.
medgremlin@midwest.social 6 months ago
How does “being able to handle yourself” apply when someone else has removed your ability to handle yourself with drugs or alcohol? How does it apply when your choices are “go along with it and try to escape later” or “fight back and probably lose because you have less muscle mass and are physically smaller than them”?
How does your argument apply when you are a teenage girl in high school being harassed by adult men? Reality is a very different place when the world perceives you as a woman (or girl), and your prescriptivist approach entirely fails to account for the fact that your perspective has a lot of blind spots in it.
Mango@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Try defending yourself from all of society when a girl lies about you for rejecting her.
Are you not responsible for your own drinking? I avoid the hazard of bars by not going to them. I’m also pretty good about not dating total strangers.
Carry a gun. Obviously this doesn’t apply in the teenage girl scenario. I wanna say that you gotta protect your kids, but society’s structure straight up doesn’t let that be practical. Security is hard and young girls are desirable. Judging people’s character is also hard. Dangerous machiavellians can pretty well pretend they’re totally chill. IMO, the best security is surveillance, identification, and appropriate punishment which seems unavoidable. I personally fear the future of easy to fake evidence though. It’s not something that’ll hit me directly, but someone that the rich will employ against each other eventually resulting in all of leadership positions being occupied by the worst kinds of people.
Ever wonder how election by lottery might go? I seriously believe that any random person is more likely to make good legislation than the people who seek it out and fund their way in. I’m getting on a tangent now, so I’ll stop myself here.