Either through memes or comments I keep seeing this sentiment pop-up from time to time. And I’m wondering what your (yes, you) consensus is on it.
I for one am too pessimistic to do anything with potential hints. Like even if there is a good chance I still just don’t want to risk it.
I think you need to update your 60s-era viewpoint to include unwanted attention and a metric arseload of other things a lot less severe than outright rape.
This world isn’t black and white. There are a lot of shades of grey, and most of that spectrum has been criminalized (for men, specifically; women aren’t affected) since your obsolete and archaic viewpoint ossified itself into your brain.
Men have been arrested for as little as making a woman uncomfortable. Even when he didn’t even realize she existed in the first place.
<citation needed>
Shoo, incels. Women might be pissed when you approach them, and might insult you, but that’s about it, unless you actually assault them.
They actually have a lot of trouble making cops move their butts when actual rape is committed, so nothing important is going to be done about guys hitting on girls 🙄
Leave your incel talking points at the door.
https://muskokatoday.com/2022/05/man-arrested-after-approaching-women-they-say-made-them-feel-uncomfortable-suspicious-fearful/
You were saying? And that’s just one of the first articles in the search results.
Interesting how the first thing you reached for was an ad hominem that is explicitly designed to shut down any conversation by shaming the other person into silence and into compliance with the female supremacist narrative.
Almost as if you had absolutely no viable counter-argument to provide.
Edit: And I am married. 18 years this year, 28 years with the same woman. So I am absolutely ineligible for the incel attribute. I just refuse to ignore uncomfortable facts, and will never bow to anti-reality ideologies.
Married men can (and often are) misogynist pigs. You may not be an incel, but get your facts straight.
Funny you should mention reality. Isolated facts happen, but they’re not characteristic of a larger reality that the poor men are oppressed by women. In fact, the opposite oppression exists in a systematic way: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_harassment, https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/85-002-x/2019001/article/00017-eng.htm
Crybabies. Don’t be a creep, and you’ll be alright. Open streets are not the right place to pick up women minding their own business. And even if you do it, the worst you’re likely to get is an insult, meaningless anecdotes aside, because cops are fucking useless.