The other day, I was at a candy store when a young woman asked me to take her card out of the ATM. Allegedly her nails were preventing her to take the card out.

Now I'm a nice guy. Whenever any woman asks me to reach for something that's high on a shelf in a food store, I reach for it.

But I had to get a card, not food. And I had to get it from an ATM machine, not a shelf. So I said that I couldn't help with her card because I didn't want to infect her with COVID-19.

She wasn't disabled. She wasn't old. She was within reach of the card. She just had to use her fingers in a certain way to get it. Did she also want to piggyback on me, to avoid touching the dirty floor?

Any other man might've tried to be chivalrous and aid her, but I've been wary around young women. I don't find much criminal reports about them, and a lot of the known reports seem to portray them as innocent. But I know women, like humans and animals, have the capacity to prey on others. A society that fails to report or publish such predation doesn't affect that predation's exist. If nobody told me about gravity, then that doesn't mean that I won't fall off a cliff. Imagine living in a society that warns you about man-eating lions roaming about but not man-eating lionesses.

I would be an idiot if I reached for that card, and then was falsely accused of theft. There would be photos and even my fingerprint.