I'm new to this sub but I'm not that new to alot of the ideas on here. I'm going to be 24 later this month and I've started to realise significant differences in how the sexes perceive each other. I've heard multiple women (so it may not be all women who think this way) say they have their guard up if a guy approaches them because he might be dangerous. Although that is a legitimate possibility, what I find interesting is that most women (who are into men) want to be approached by a prospective male partner rather than the other way around. I find this interesting because I predict that if men just from looks were thinking "I don't have a way of knowing if she's crazy just from her appearance" (as most people in public are dressed fairly innocuously) very few women would ever be approached because that fear would likely override the want to take the risk

TL;DR If men feared women like women feared men just from their presence very few of them would ever be approached (which is what they want to happen) which imo is a selfish way to look at the situation from them