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Walking on a sidewalk when I was much younger, I was catcalled by a couple of young white women in a bus. I didn't feel the need to demonize them. Any other desires I may or may not have felt were cancelled by my wife at my side. She still laughs about it.

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Hey Paul. Thanks for sharing. Women do not feel safe when it happens to them. Can you understand that your experience as a man is not the same as a woman's experience?

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Tbf I am a woman who's lived in a lot of cities and traveled all over the world and I almost never feel unsafe or threatened when catcalled.

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Do you understand that not every woman feels that way? And we have very valid reasons why we don't?

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Sure, but you were also saying "women" like we're all one homogeneous unit. *some* women feel threatened. Others don't. I just wanted to clarify you're not speaking for all of us.

6:40 PM · Aug 6, 2020

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You have a problem with someone using anecdotal evidence to support their sweeping statement? You, miss "I get catcalled by black men, so that means most catcallers are black"? Imagine that. I too feel unsafe when catcalled, or even having a strange man try to talk to me.

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This is basically "not all men" but using women. I did not say ALL women so you can safely assume I did not mean all women. Women is the plural of woman and there are more than one. If I'd meant every single woman ever, I'd have said that.

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So you generalized an entire subset and then turnaround and asked someone not to generalize. GTFO with this mess.