You know, I don’t usually wade into this shit, but here I am.

Yes, the incidents of women getting murdered because they refused to date or broke up with a guy are (thankfully) relatively rare, but they’re still far too common. They’re also on the extreme end of a spectrum of male violence/aggression toward women. Nearly every woman I know (including me) could you tell stories…

“This is a one in a many millions crime, like terrorism.”

You seem fixated on this officer and this particular act- sure, it is spectacularly heinous but that does not make all of the other women who are killed in more mundane ways by rejected men any less dead.

Seriously.

I don't even know what I can say at this point. I'm lost.

But this is nonsense. You’re presuming men WOULDN’T agree - and Jesus, that's a horrifying thing you're presuming - and you're STILL insisting this quote is about a comparison in fears. It's not. It's about the societal context of fears and how they often interrelate. That is literally what it is about.

Jesus, dude. Seriously?

That’s unbelievably foolish. The quote in no way makes women’s fears more valid than men’s. It makes them more URGENT. It speaks to a demonstrably true fact that women are murdered by men at a higher rate than the inverse; that IS a valid fear, and IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE AND CONTEXT, it’s a more PRESSING concern than…

The fear of being laughed at pales in every respect to the fear of being murdered.

You initially said your problem with the quote was about generalizations. You’re moving the goalposts.

Probably because shootings and stabbings and rapings are more common and therefore not defined as “heinous” so much as perhaps “ordinary.”

Do you legitimately not understand the comparison being made in the quote? That:

Kindly don’t tell women to not be occasionally be afraid of men when the vast majority of women on this site alone could give you a story confirming why they're right to occasionally be afraid of men.

You seem to be deliberately misunderstanding the quote. Fear and wariness don’t equate to avoiding; they’re simply what we are often thinking of. It speaks more to the culture and pattern of male violence. It’s in the back of our heads, because of things like this. That’s what the quote is about. The fact that you’re…

Sure, that’s true, your chances of actually getting murdered by a man aren’t really high, but your chances of being brutalized by one are. It isn’t only about death.

There are a number of men who have the same problem.

man can’t just take no for an answer

He hunted this woman down. She tried to get away but he kept coming after her. All of this happened because he couldn't accept she didn't want to be with him anymore.

Japan has several uninhabited/abandoned islands with different animal populations. Does anybody want to go with me? I can’t decide between one of the cat islands or the bunny island.