Why do women place little value on our right to Free Speech?
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I think some of the posts here are on the right track.
I talked to a friend in college about this. She was a small woman--probably 5'1 or so. She basically said that every time she got on an elevator with a 6'0+ man--or really, any larger man--she felt nervous. She was fully aware that pretty much any male could physically dominate her, at will.
As she explained it, it wasn't that she was going around constantly frightened, but she was constantly aware that she was weak, and men were far, far stronger than she was. A near-constant feeling of worry.
Now, maybe she was a basketcase, maybe not, but it did get me thinking. If most women feel those feelings, even if only at times, it KIND OF MAKES SENSE that women are more likely than your average male to give up freedom for security (and even so, 46% of men aged 30+ find freedom of speech less important than FEELING safe?!)
I read one article about an Olympic swimmer. She was bulky, big, strong, and fast. She was raped in college by some thug. She wrote that she had never understood before how even as one of the STRONGEST women, she was pretty helpless against an average dude. https://deadspin.com/how-a-career-ends-nancy-hogshead-makar-olympic-swimmi-5930611 (She's also written and been sighted in many articles about the trans Penn swimmer. Needless to say, she does not support men competing in women's sports.)
I'm a tall and skinny guy. I've never been strong and didn't get in good shape until my 30s (and I now lift regularly). I'm no Chad or musclehead (nor fatass), and I have literally never experienced that kind of fear on a daily basis. I've certainly been situatioally uncomfortable, for instance, when in South Side Chicago at night (long story), but I think this is a pretty fundamental difference between males and females.
These are feminist tactics to manipulate you. They know as a man you naturally seek to protect women, while never expecting the same from them.
Women develop these patterns growing up with other women. Just this I was studying for traing and went to the library for a change of scenery and at some point I noticed a group of not-attractive teenage girls was chatting behind me. One of them starts saying that some girl who isn't there is her friend friend forever and - then the queen bee of the group starts talking over her, angrily, telling her she needs to break up with her "she's not worth it". She gets really angry, she clearly believes she has every right to tell the other girl who she should and shouldn't be friends with.
This is the kind of thing that forms of womens actual fear. Group ostrasization because of association with someone the group doesn't like - often entirely unexpectedly. One day you think things are fine, the next the whole group is threatening to abandon her because she was seen with someone they don't like.