Reply #110: This isn't about random street violence. [View All]

[ThomCat]

It is about the pervasiveness of sexual harassment and sexual bullying.

Boys have to worry about sexual harassment and sexual bullying in school at levels close to girls, but not quite as high. But girls and women have to worry about it EVERYWHERE, their entire lived.

As a boy, you mostly have to worry about sexual harassment and bullying if someone thinks you are gay or accuses you of being gay. As a woman, it is open season on you all the time.

Your entire life men will feel like they have permission, or some INHERENT RIGHT to get up close and personal with you, and invade your space and get to know you, and judge you, and insult and demean you, you, and attack you if they want to, JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE A WOMAN.

Men don't go through any of that. The random street violence is just being in the wrong place at the wrong time. It isn't targeted at them specifically, and it certainly is not targeted at them because of their gender. The point of "random" is that it isn't targeted at them all.