You can ask that question to just about all of academia. As for the rest of your point, yes, I realize that there are physical differences between the sexes, but if your reasoning were true, then only physically imposing men would be capable of warding off street harassment when escorting a woman, but we know that's…

I assure you, I believe every word I write. Maybe you don't agree with me, but that doesn't make me a troll.

At some point we have to face the fact that the "solutions" to street harassment we've attempted for years now have not worked, and are not likely to ever work. We've tried education, we've tried awareness, we've tried shaming, but men are still out there terrorizing women on the streets every single day. The only…

Yes, I know the the idea isn't part of mainstream Feminism. But the problem is that every response to street harassment we've tried have failed. As far as I'm concerned, advocating solutions like "teaching men to respect women" or "take pictures of them and shame them on the internet" is effectively advocating for…

Oh, so I suppose it's up to the harassers to come to the light, see the error of their ways, and stop their disgusting behavior all on their own? Newsflash: they're not going to stop. None of the "solutions" we've tried have worked. The only thing that seems to have any effect at all is the threat of violence. Other…

Ok, well if SYG is really only ever used to acquit white people killing black people, then yeah, using it here would be problematic, since only white women killing black male harassers would get off, which would indeed exacerbate the already racist application of the law.

"We just want respect and to be treated as equals." Do you know how many people have died for that sentiment?

You know what's really not constructive? All the efforts so far to end street harassment. Hollaback has been around for what, 4 years now? Have things gotten any better? No. In fact judging from what women have been saying the past few weeks with the #YesAllWomen movement they've probably gotten worse. I'm done being…

Um, every country enforces laws with deadly force, or the threat of deadly force. Things might be different in your country, but in America civilians are allowed to possess deadly weapons, and use deadly force in certain situations. This is a country that basically allows a white man to punch a black man and then…

Yeah, your mom and I are getting surgery to separate us tomorrow. I'm telling ya, that ass is tiiiiiiiight.

I'm a man, brah.

Street harassment IS very often an implied physical threat, though? We're not talking about the state punishing men for street harassment or even making street harassment illegal. We're talking about making it such that women can respond to street harassment with force, up to and including lethal force, if they feel…

Where are you getting that I want to allow people to kill someone just for saying something offensive? I want to allow women to kill men who harass them. Men who harass women only refrain from doing so when they fear immediate violent consequences. If we did this, street harassment would end. The upside is obvious.…

We already decide "who lives and who dies". If we as a society decide that the dead children of sandy hook elementary is an acceptable price to pay so we can play with guns, deciding to sacrifice a few scumbag street harassing men to make women safer is surely a more justifiable sentiment?

Apparently, stand your ground laws have caused about 600 additional deaths a year. Honestly, if legalizing lethal defense against street harassment causes twice as many deaths, I would be ok with that, even though I know that in reality the number is likely to be much lower. After all, we accept 30k+ deaths a year…

Will some innocent people die from the implementation of my proposal? Sure. Might it be abused by small numbers of people to further their own ends? Certainly. But focusing on that is like focusing on false rape accusations instead of eradicating rape. We already live in a society that gleefully trades piles of…

Well, it depends on what that inappropriate thing is, doesn't it? It's only "disproportional" if we believe that street harassment is a small problem, unworthy of devoting significant resources to eradicating. For every norm and law we deem important in this country, we enforce them all with the threat of deadly…

What I'm proposing is not punishment, but empowerment of women to enforce a norm(not harassing women on the street), which should be a law, with the means by which we enforce everything else in our society: deadly force. Ideally, it would be the state doing the enforcing, but I wouldn't trust the mostly male-dominated…

It's normally very difficult to prove that you needed to defend yourself, because you need to prove that you exhausted all avenues of retreat and had no other option. But stand your ground is designed precisely to remove that requirement. As long as the woman felt her safety was being threatened (and in the case of…

Go back to Reddit, you fedora-wearing MRA scum.