You know what they say, "Men don't have to worry about being safe when walking at night".

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The really sad thing is that women even have to consider whether a man is a threat. But this is a reality in the life of a woman. You probably never think twice about walking in a deserted parking garage, or the vehicle parked next to yours with a person sitting in the passenger seat, or getting in an elevator and a man steps in just before the doors close. I guarantee every woman takes her safety into account in these situations.

Oh gee, I forgot, that male privilege gives me 100% damage reduction from bullets, punches/kicks, etc.

And also: "It's your duty to intervene, to call out sexism, etc. etc." like the infamous Gillette ad four years ago: "To say the right thing. To act the right way. Some already are. In ways big and small. But some is not enough."

"Men have to hold other men accountable." said Terry Crews, the 6'2"/237# former NFL player.

Okay, now I am 5'7"/150#, with no athletic inclinations whatsoever. I don't watch any sports at all because it bores me to tears (except classic auto racing, from ca. 1950-2000), I don't know anything about (American) football and don't care to learn because it won't be useful to my life, and with my shorter stature and athletic disinterest combined, thus can't exactly count on physical strength. Do they really think that all men are 6' or taller?

And now it's my duty to call out a 6'5"/250# football player in a cocaine-induced rage because he told one sexist joke.

What do they think is going to happen? That this guy will just say "Oh, hey, you're right, I shouldn't have said that, I will educate myself and try to do better." So, tell me you've never met another person before without saying you've never met another person before. This "protect your daughter/educate your son" virtue-signaling. Because I can tell for sure that Bart is totally open to being educated. It's not like he's already an underachiever at school, a prankster and disrespects authority (Homer, Principal Skinner, etc.), calling Homer generally by his first name and not "Dad" and diss raps about him on stage, calling him a fat load. He'd totally listen, right? And "saying all men are rapists/it's in their nature is misandrist/insulting to men/shows you have a really low opinion of men". Opinion is like an asshole, everyone is entitled to one, doesn't mean it's always right. And when did I say that it's in the nature, point out the exact words. Also, France (Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau) did not try to "educate the Germans" at the Paris Peace Conference, but really wanted to really punish Germany hard, harsh reparations, territory annexations, the whole nine yards, because they bore the brunt of the WWI horrors. As he said: "America is far away, separated by ocean, and even Napoleon couldn't touch England. You two are both sheltered, we are not." I guess maybe Woodrow Wilson and David Lloyd George should have called him out for "having a low opinion of the Germans" or that he was being "insulting to the Germans!"

Anyway, back to the main point, more likely, this 6'5"/250# football player will be throwing me down on the floor and then beating the shit out of me. Like I said, I'm just 5'7"/150#, so if he wanted to harm me, he is going to succeed at it. So I have to "be an ally" and risk life-threatening injuries, and later also pay the medical costs (at best), have to spend my entire life in wheelchair (worse case) or die (worst case), but hey, at least now I have earned some "ally points". What a good deal, where and what for can I redeem them? Like Bill Allen said: "Better to be a live coward than a dead hero. Sure people will still sing about dead heroes from time to time, but aside from that they get little attention. Unless they manage to get a holiday named after them. Even then, it's not like they get to enjoy the day off."

So, actually here's another debate topic. For men of shorter stature, safety is not a given. And many of those feminists tend to also be politically more on the progressive-liberal (not necessarily left/leftist) and collectivist/authoritarian side. The side that's usually not so gun-friendly. But if I am two inches below the average American male height, how am I supposed to defend myself? Not that have to actually want to shoot someone, oftentimes the mere sight of a gun will make an attacker think he's not that tough after all and scamper. I mean, it's such a tragedy that the feminists have to walk with car keys between their fingers while walking at night. While if I did that, since I can't count on physical strength, I would only achieve 1) making the assailant angrier and thus 2) reducing my chances of survival, not to mention fucking up my fingers. Or if I carried pepper spray or mace, it would end up right in my face if used downwind. Knife? You know what they say, "The winner of a knife fight dies in hospital, the loser in the street."

So, for a shorter man, dating may be harder, but there are more important, more pressing issues, like self-defense/self-preservation.

Postlogue: But hey, if it mainly targets women, then it's all "society bad, men bad, have to change". But when the vast majority of the crime victims are men, *crickets chirping* Like New York in the 1970s, in the Lindsey and Beame era, when the city was near bankruptcy (Remember the infamous NY Daily News "Ford to City: Drop Dead" headline?), and had to "defund the police" to stabilize the budget. And the best NYPD could do under those circumstances was to pass out pamphlets at JFK/Newark/LaGuardia saying "Until things change, stay away from New York City if you possibly can." Very likely, the vast majority of the crime victims then were men. So will the feminists also agree that all this was victim blaming: "Stay off the streets after 6 PM, do not walk, avoid public transportation, remain in Manhattan, protect your property, safeguard your handbag, conceal property in automobiles, do not leave valuables in your hotel room"?