Are you really going to say that men don't go through that at all? I don't disagree that it unfortunately happens to women more often but it can and does happen to men as well and men have to deal with the stigma of thinking that they are "less of a man" because of it.
No, I am not saying that men don't go through that kind of thing.
In my own life I can think of two experiences off the top of my head. In one I was at a meeting of a local BDSM club, and a woman walked up to me and just grabbed my balls and gave 'em a good squeeze. Later she said "It's how I say hello to all the new people here." Uh-huh. Right. Another time I was at a Borders Book store and guy walked behind me and grabbed my ass one hand on each cheek and sqoze, "Honk Honk! Firm!" he said. He was off and gone before I decided what to say about it.
But these are the two experiences that stand out in my memory from the last THIRTY years and change.
So yes, this shit happens to men also. No questions.
My point is, and was, that women see it far more often and consistently over their lives. They see it enough that it's not the random one or two off thing that happens in a life but a regular feature of navigating the world as a woman.
Men can be assaulted just as women can, and it's just as serious. And I had zero intent of intoning that it wasn't a thing, or as significant. I just believe, as you said its happens to women far more often, and creates a different perspective across the population as a whole that males don't naturally see or think about.
In response to another post farther back that spoke about a competition to be Beta by folks in the thread, I just wanted to say, how is being respectful and polite to another person Beta? I've never bought into the idea that 'maleness' is defined by just one set of behaviors rather then an attitude as a whole.
The author of the Handmaids Tale Margaret Atwood wrote a quote that I encountered back in my college days that really changed the way I looked at the world, and led me to change how I acted in the world.
The quote is "Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them."
I feel that a part of maleness is being aware of what my presence as a male CAUSES in those around me. And doing my best to limit that response if I find it to not be something I want to project personally. Late at nights I'll change the slide of the street I walk on if I notice a group of single woman is walking ahead of me. I'll never get onto an elevator that opens with a lone woman in it. "I'll take the next one" I say and step back. And so forth. Just as I'll not cross someones personal space without asking, or clear invitation. I get how to a Red-Pill Alpha that makes me look like a beta or Cuck. But in my eyes it is what a responsible mindful male should just do. Which is pretty Alpha in my opinion.
Good thread, good replies, and discussion folks, nice to see.
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