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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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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It's more about being aware of the kind of social situation in which violence can be a thing. And here all manner of things like social class come in to play...
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...a lot of posh chaps don't get it. I think this is at the core of why working class men are often feared - posh men don't understand the social rules that prevent (or rarely allow) violence among men.
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I think there is an element of truth to this.
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Regional accents don't help either. Very often being a Geordie is almost enough on its own to scare the crap out of some people.
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I thought a bus driver was furious with me last time I was in Glasgow. Turned out, he was only asking to see my ticket.
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I'm very lucky. I'm extremely tall and imposing, yet I doubt I could fight my way out of a wet paper bag - but fortunately, nobody ever tries to pick a fight with me.
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This probably falls under the umbrella of toxic masculinity. It's probably less common with weaker men or higher class people who are less at risk. But if you have ever been in a physical confrontation, you know how quickly things can go bad.
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Men's bathroom etiquette is a quite good example of how men avoid physical conflict. There is a reason the line for women's bathroom is longer than men's. Men don't socialize in there.
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