"You can't let one bad experience color your perception of all men!" "Actually, most men I've met treated me/women badly" "If every man you've dated was a jerk, there is probably something wrong with you, you're the common denominator"

I see this type of exchange echoed all over Reddit and even IRL discussions on dating.

It's just yet another way of blaming women for male depravity.

If a woman has one bad dating experience and becomes more guarded around men, she is "doing the same thing as incels and letting one bad experience affect her perception of all men"

If a woman has had multiple bad experiences with men and becomes more guarded, she is ridiculed for "choosing the wrong guys" and is blamed because "she's the common denominator"

In either case, the woman is blamed for men treating her badly, and the implication is that men as a class are innocent and generally good, and that each man deserves to be given the benefit of the doubt, no matter what.

Meanwhile, men already know deep down that most men are trash. Just see how they behave when they have a daughter. Or how a man reacts if his girlfriend/wife has a male friend or coworker she spends a lot of time with. All men already know that men are not to be trusted.

It's time women stop buying their propaganda and treat men with the same suspicion that men already treat other men.