I have survived outside of the comfort of North America on the basis that EVERYONE is a potential threat. I treat a 6'4" black dude the same as a petit white woman. Both are equally dangerous in my eyes. Though they may pose threats in distinct ways, it does not mean that one is less threatening than the other.

Yes! I said that from my original post. It is hardly a checkbox on the "male privilege checklist" to be murder, robbed or kidnapped by a member of your own gender lol ... It is hardly a consolation for the victims lol ... And the "bait" often gets a generous cut of the swag taken from the victim.

Fair enough. I concede your point. However, I will take issue with paragraph two on account of my experience traveling, especially as a fugitive (I stay of the beaten path so to speak). The luring of drunken gringo men is very, very, very common south of the US!! I have been in Belize City for some months now and I…

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I am sorry, my first language is not English. I find myself mixing English, French, Spanish and Portugese ... I was in Buenos Aires last year and when intending to order a "large penne pasta", apparently I asked the waiter for a "large penis." (in Canada, a common menu item is a "penne grande" at East Side Mario's).

Yes, I have been out of Canada for some time now. "Unresolved taxation issues" lol ... Only place I tend to avoid except when transiting is Brazil. The vulnerability cuts across gender lines. Rather if they see a first-world person, you are a target. Seen my fair share of female sex tourists in Costa Rica and…

This is not a gender issue! Online dating is a wonderful tool for criminals, including violent ones who get their jollies choking women! I am not trying to take away from the seriousness of the issue facing women. Rather I am saying it is something which needs a solution.

I think the point they make is valid ... Women in first-world countries are prima facie more vulnerable when meeting up on the internet. I merely added that online dating can be just as dangerous for men, albeit for different reasons. I have been out of Canada for years now and I get laid about as often as Hailey's…

Actually there are still in habitants there. Right around the release of that terrible movie in 2012, there was a documentary on the inhabitants in the forest in and around Prypiat.

Buying sex is creepy. I don't understand how that can turn any guy on. Besides I prefer Belizean Jaguars lol

Never said they were. My point was in the last sentence: everyone needs to be weary of online dating.

Actually men have the same fears. There was a serial killer couple in Alberta, Canada who lured men into death traps. I have been in Latin America for some time and internet dating for white dudes is akin to suicide. Just about anyone who responds to a gringo has an agenda and there are horror stories of kidnappings,…

That is why I stay away from internet dating! When I was in Canada, I met my fair share of psychos. One was stunningly beautiful, and I thought I hit the jackpot when she invited me back up to her place. However, she wanted me to watch her take a shit. At that point I called it a night!

Just found a pile of 2012 comments on a page of the National Post on the shooting at the Holocaust Museum .... Eeeek! The idiot can't even spell my name correctly lol ... Is there a law in the US against personation of people online?

Reminds me of a very sickening case in Yellowknife years back. Some dude was barred from a local restaurant because his ex owned the place and he would go there to harass her. So he broke into her car, stabbed her pug and then had sex with the dead animal. He was charged with bestiality, animal cruelty and criminal…

This reminds me of a debate we had in first year tort law in law school. There was an Ontario Court of Appeal ruling which upheld a lower insurance pay-out in a personal injury case for loss of future earnings. The court considered the wage-gap, and awarded the female plaintiff less than a male would have been…

Coping humour? I worked in the criminal justice system and shit normal people would find really tragic, we laughed at. Not that we lacked empathy, but when your typical day is dealing with the violent rape of a four year-old, some dude who slit his wrists in holding cells, serious domestic violence cases and crack…

Reminds me of Halloween 2001 ... Everyone and their dog got dressed up as Ossama bin Laden lol

I love this piece! Couldn't have asked for a better article :) ... My grandmother has a "asshole magnet." She jumps from abusive relationship to abusive relationship. When she finds a decent man, she will call him "girly" or "clingy" and herself cling to dudes who are physically and sexually abusive.

Well the Canadian Supreme Court ruled that the procuring and living off avail laws were unconstitutional because they put sex workers at risk. Prostitution in and of itself is legal; it is activities surrounding it which are illegal. The new proposed law adopts the "Nordic model" which makes selling sex legal but…