And on the other hand, it means there are less men respecting boundaries in the spotlight (seriously, you don’t go viral by taking no for an answer; people only notice when it’s something bad), which skews the perception of “men” in general towards “they’re all dangerous.”
This, and sensationalist 24/7 news channels that feed on ratings even before the concept of virality (in this context), are why despite the fact that while all kinds of violent crime (incl where women are victims) have been steadily declining since 1993, the general perception is that crime has increased instead. Not just with women either, the same mechanism plays a role in why your racist uncle “doesn’t hate the blacks he just hates how they act. 13%/50% yadda yadda,” and frankly “all men will rape you” isn’t too far off from what it used to be, “all black men are Ne**o rape beasts” (bro I swear I didn’t invent it that literally was a racist trope used against black men for decades), and yeah I guess opening that up to “all men are rape beasts” is technically progress, but it’s far from ideal.
Good news is while women and uncles seem more scared than they ever have been, statistically they’re actually safer than they have been in the past, so at least we’ve got that going for us. Fat lot of good it does for the division in this country but at least you probably won’t actually be harmed by whatever race or sex you’ve chosen to be afraid of.
This, and sensationalist 24/7 news channels that feed on ratings even before the concept of virality (in this context), are why despite the fact that while all kinds of violent crime (incl where women are victims) have been steadily declining since 1993, the general perception is that crime has increased instead. Not just with women either, the same mechanism plays a role in why your racist uncle “doesn’t hate the blacks he just hates how they act. 13%/50% yadda yadda,” and frankly “all men will rape you” isn’t too far off from what it used to be, “all black men are Ne**o rape beasts” (bro I swear I didn’t invent it that literally was a racist trope used against black men for decades), and yeah I guess opening that up to “all men are rape beasts” is technically progress, but it’s far from ideal.
Good news is while women and uncles seem more scared than they ever have been, statistically they’re actually safer than they have been in the past, so at least we’ve got that going for us. Fat lot of good it does for the division in this country but at least you probably won’t actually be harmed by whatever race or sex you’ve chosen to be afraid of.