I've seen many people (especially in the wonderful land of Twitter) will proudly say in a world where there were no men, women wouldn't need protection because men are the ones doing all the harm.

Now obviously, no gender deserves more protection than the other, so this is far and away from some kind of red pill post. We're all people and people should be protected no matter their gender. I'm just breaking down how this actually works in reality-land.

  1. Women harm other women, like all the time. I'm sick to death of this romantacized myth of the universal, peace-loving sisterhood that all women share. People are people and women are people. Women can be manipulative, cruel, heartbreaking and mean to other women, to say nothing of how they can be to other men. There's no magical "paece" spell that all or most women are under. This belief is just the "Women are Wonderful" effect in action.
  2. Some people bring up how men protect people from dangerous animals whenever those kinds of issues come up, to which the response is always "Just don't go to the jungle. Stay in the cities and enjoy modern comforts. It's not like we NEED to do that stuff anyway." The only reason people don't (usually) do that kind of stuff anymore is because of the modern techno wonderland MEN toiled away to build. Yes, women played a significant role in that as well, but it was the men who did damn-near all the construction, maintenance and manual labor. Would THEY do all the dangerous and grueling jobs men did in order to maintain those cities if all men just disappeared?
  3. Whether you like it or not, the fact remains. Most firefighters, rescue workers (of ALL kinds), doctors, peramedics, etc, are all men. Harm doesn't JUST come from other people. This world can be cruel, and many men step up to protect others from it.

This whole line of reasoning just screams " "Men bad, women good" and men MUST protect women out of collective shame for what a minority of men do because men are the only ones in the world doing all the harm, and women are just passive observers to it all." What... absolute... nonsense.

What do you all think?