Just adding, I have been stalked, chased down in a car (and I was with my mom!!), I have been felt up at bars, parties, pools, etc... I have had to protect my sister from an abusive boyfriend.

Yes. I have. And I have feared for the safety of my body in many instances with men, both strangers and known.

Louis CK does a great bit about this in his “Oh My God” special. He talks about how insane it is that women continue to date men at all, because men are “the number one thing that happens to women”. I’m paraphrasing, but he wraps it up like “Imagine if the only thing you could date was part lion and part bear. And you…

“have you honestly been afraid of your life when rejecting a man?”

Shut the fuck up and stop being deliberately contrarian in the face of other peoples lived experiences.

Ummm... yes. And I’m pretty sure most women have. No, not all men get violent when you reject them. But some do, and women have no idea who that is going to be until they’re being violent. And no, it doesn’t matter how nice you try to be about it.

Sadly, not in our lifetime. I’ve also seen this variation, which is also true:

Let’s also not forget that often women who kill men are killing their abusers.

In 2011, the United States Department of Justice compiled homicide statistics in the United States between 1980 and 2008.^[48] That study showed the following:

Well, for one perhaps you should care about how men treat women for your own personal good and of your own fruition instead of because you happened to be related to women. (Guess what? This is a crazy secret- we ALL are related to women.) If you start thinking more along those lines. That not contributing to this…

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Physically capable. And you don’t know which strangers (and sometimes loved ones) are emotionally capable. Most murdered women are killed by someone they already know.

The quote doesn’t imply that. You chose to infer “emotionally” ahead of the word “capable”.

For my life? Yes.

You’re being deliberately obtuse. It’s apparent that the quote is comparing the ways that men and women relate to each other, not that any man a woman meets is going to kill her. When guys go on first dates, their friends don’t tell them to text when they’re home safe, or advise that they go to a public place.

Then common sense should tell you that there are a shitload more instances of men assaulting and killing women over rejection (or perceived rejection) than vice-versa. But you go on whining.

Exactly. All men are capable of it and we don’t necessarily know the difference between a ‘good man’ and a ‘bad man’ at first glance. Hell, it can take years to figure it out and many women die before they do figure it all out. And if we do make the mistake of trusting and get hurt? It was our fault for being so…

Aw, shit yeah, bro! Not all men! You’re so brave!

Women do kill men, but they don’t kill men over sexual rejection so repeatedly that it’s a widespread problem. And while we know that most men aren’t that evil...sometimes you don’t know until it’s too late (or you do know, think you’ve gotten rid of the guy, and then he kills you anyway). And so we proceed with…