Just to clear up any confusion: I'm not here to delegitimize men's struggles. I'm just hoping that we can finally start legitimizing women's. Regardless of what you've decided about me, I'm not "anti-men". I am, however, super "pro-women". You should be too.
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1. Ok, thanks for responding. Hate to quibble with you (big fan of your writing), but I heard her song as pointing out that women are kind of scared a lot in ways that men don't really ever think about. I honestly think most men don't know this, still.
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I honestly don't think women are scared in lots of ways, generally. This is what I have seen most of my female tweeps responding to this anyway. It made me wonder if it works on the same principle as helicopter parenting.
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Because there are fewer risks now, we tend to focus on very unlikely things that could happen and overprotect. eg kids not allowed to walk to park and play alone coz kidnap possible. Some women saying theyre scared to open their front door coz could be a home invading rapist.
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Okay, this might be true. I will reconsider. Certainly agree with your point about helicopter parenting.
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I wouldn't want you to think women generally live their lives being afraid of men violently attacking them. I don't know anyone who does this. OK, we can get nervous if out late alone and there's 1 man walking behind us but so do men & we're statistically safer than men.
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We barely notice as we’ve been taught that’s how life is. My mom used to say it’s wrong you can’t run by yourself at night. But it’s still not safe.
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It depends where you live! You're still more likely to be attacked if you are a man tho, wherever you are. But I regularly walk by myself at night and go through London by myself at night. You can't stop living just in case you encounter a criminal. Well you can but what a waste.
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2. So although there is more overt activism over women's issues, this is also probably a reflection of the dynamic -- that there are (largely ignored, or accepted) norms that one side enjoys and another does not. One would expect a disparity, no?
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I am unconvinced of this dynamic. I do think there are several norms one sex benefits from that the other does not but I think there is much more focus on when it is women who are disadvantaged and almost none on when men are.
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eg, we hear a lot about women being expected to do more of the childcare but very little about it nearly always being women who are asked if they intend to return to work after having a child while men are seldom assumed to have that choice.
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Now you're just piling on. (:
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