Throughout my life, men have always operated in a way that’s seemingly distrustful of “men in general” as potentially dangerous in a way that women don’t operate as if “women in general” are potentially dangerous. For example, it’s mostly men who tout needing a gun against “threats.” And those threats aren’t women or feral pigs. It’s other men driving his anxieties there.

Contrarily, because of the “easy breezy” way in which women navigate with other women, women tend to navigate men with that same trust that they probably shouldn’t. In fact I’ve often seen men claim that “women don’t have sense of situational awareness around dangerous men or environments.”

This is probably true because, compared to men, when women are in female only environments they literally have no need to operate as though the women around them are going to sneak ‘em, assault them, try to fight them, rape them, mob them, etc. Why? Because it typically hasn’t happened to her nor has she observed it happening to other women when around women.

So she naively takes that same energy when she navigates men, and that’s when men call out that she’s “being dumb” and should “obviously be on guard around stranger men.”

I say that all to say, most of my life it has been men reminding women that men are dangerous or potentially threatening in a violative way.

The problem is when women say the same thing or agree or express her experiences with men in fact behaving in an unsavory way, the same guys are upset about it.

And that’s the inconsistent thing.