I think a lot of it comes from men not saying they worry about getting attacked. It's not damaging to femininity for a woman to say she feels afraid when she encounters a strange man on a dark street but very damaging to masculinity for a man to say so. https://twitter.com/BasedTomas/status/1050465586092957696 …
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Well, no. We don’t worry about getting attacked; it’s got a not-unreasonable chance of happening, and ain’t no-one coming to our rescue, so we just learn to live with it. And take up Krav Maga if we’re really concerned.
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Was having a convo related to this recently. He was talking abt this time a drunk girlfriend mouthed off to some obvious gang-bangers, and how that suddenly meant *he* had a problem, as his risk of having to defend against physical attack had suddenly grown exponentially 1/
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A man can't show fear in a situation like that. If he shows fear, he's toast. I heed same warning to get safely away fr aggressive dogs. Something rather primal abt it. I'd never considered men might generally encounter such situations differently fr women tbh
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Yes, I realised this recently. On a train, some man, was going on at a teenage girl of about 14. About God. Loud & too close. Not overtly aggressive. I thought about intervening and wondered why they men weren't. I looked at them & saw they were all alert and watching indirectly.
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And then I thought if I went over there and told the man to back off and he got aggressive - he seemed volatile - I'd force an issue where one of them had to intervene and then there'd be a fight, so I waited & watched too. Then a seat came free & she sat & ppl closed round her.
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Then he got off. It was seeing that the men were ready to intervene but waiting until it became necessary - if the girl got upset or the man got aggressive - that made me realise a female privilege. I cld have brought abt an altercation but it wldn't have been me dealing with it
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I talked about this with a male friend and he said that reasonable men will behave this way. Hold back. Try not to let a situation get to a tipping point where violence is inescapable. Some women can escalate a situation without thinking it through in that way.
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You just described everyday at my job. I’m a security guard. In my experience women and alcohol are the two great escalators when it comes to the potential for violence.
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Sorry Helen. It’s all anecdotal of course, but it’s just what I’ve observed.
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