This was part of a blurb written on the back of a female empowerment book (forgot the name as well as the author) at my bookstore job when I was gathering gobacks of items customers left laying around. I got so irritated seeing this, now how has the world gotten more dangerous for women? Women (as well as girls) and their safety and needs are always prioritized and made urgent whereas with men and boys they're not even an afterthought. The world can be a dangerous place for both men and women, and both men and women can be dangerous to each other, but as usual this is more of the "women most affected" spiel. The world has arguably gotten far more dangerous for men, what with false accusations and the elimination of due process and the ridiculous notion of "believe women," the constant failure to acknowledge male victims of violence, abuse, rape, etc. (especially when done by women), men still having to register for the draft and facing legal action if they don't, how badly boys have been falling behind in schools, etc. among scores of other examples. And of course women and girls who do wrong never asked to be held accountable for their actions and only men and boys being asked to do so, with garbage like the Gillette ad and "educate your son" campaign. For a world that's supposedly so "increasingly dangerous to women," it's sure accomodating towards them and even lets them off the hook in many instances.

It's so annoying and tiresome hearing about this. Both men and women can be dangerous to each other but as always any female on male instances are shrugged off whereas the other way around is always treated as if it were a national emergency. This kind of rhetoric does nothing and only further divides men and women during a time where both should have each other's backs.