I find it's usually men who say this tho in a kindly attempt to empathise with how it might feel to be a woman. It's how they would feel if they were suddenly so much weaker than so many people. It's how they do feel if surrounded by men much bigger than them. Women? Not so much. https://twitter.com/OlGingerBastard/status/954317245370519553 …
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This is my impression in discussions with men, anyway. Men much more aware of the potential for violence between men & much more likely to assess who could take who in any interaction even if this is done on a subconscious level. This is useful & probably reduces violence overall
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Women don't tend to do this because we're nearly always going to lose in any fight any against man & fights between women tend to be verbal. Our risk assessments are different. They involve avoiding dangerous situations, getting back-up or planning escape routes.
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Most of the time, we simply go about our lives taking reasonable precautions and assuming that men are not going to harm us & that if one tries to, that other men will intervene. This is nearly always a fair assumption.
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This is such an important observation, and you see it in other areas (and seems to be the cause of so much conflict): I conceptualize what life would be like using false assumptions from my own gender experience and don’t notice that my conceptualization is mistaken
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Absolutely! This is why I want a rigorous Gender Studies that uses evolutionary psychology as well as cultural studies. So much misunderstanding could be avoided if we were allowed to look at cognitive & psychological gender differences.
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Agreed definitely but I have read a lot of feminist takes insisting that women live in constant fear of men, even with the latest thing with Ansari so much of “women are afraid to say no lest we get killed”, maybe this person was echoing that idea?
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funnily enough I've seen way more women acting cocky and insulting around big men. I think it's because they expect them to take it and not retaliate. Men in that regard, unless impaired by alcohol or whatever, seem more cautious in those situations
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Yes, I went on to talk about this.
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