How is this fair?

BlueDoorFour · 2014-11-06T04:10:05+00:00

Because we have to worry about being sexually assaulted around campus.

No, you don't.

chocoboat · 2014-11-06T07:44:43+00:00

"Non-whites, please keep your hands in plain view and make slow and deliberate movements while you're in a bank or a jewelry store."

Stalgrim · 2014-11-06T04:29:15+00:00

"Because we have to worry" "we have to" "have to"

NO, YOU FUCKING DON'T! THAT'S THE FUCKING POINT! WE SHOULDN'T BE NEEDED TO CATER OUR LIVES TOWARDS WHAT YOUR PARANOID MIND FEELS IS A THREAT!

iainmf · 2014-11-06T05:39:24+00:00

I always try to give people plenty of room when walking. It's polite and it safer for me too.

Steampunk_Moustache · 2014-11-06T10:11:00+00:00

Like I don't have to worry about being beaten and robbed.

R4F1 · 2014-11-06T06:52:52+00:00

You have been charged, and found guilty of, pre-crime.

ARedthorn · 2014-11-06T17:11:57+00:00

I like the advice... it's hilarious.

"Make a noise" - and startle her, or seem weird.

"Or slow down" - thus exposing yourself to more risk of attack, since 80% of assault and murder victims are men, anyway (and like, 90% of those committed by a stranger).

"Or something" to make her feel safer at risk to yourself.

Shall I walk around slowly, loudly announcing myself every 10-20 feet, like the world's biggest game of Marco Polo? I find the mental image HILARIOUS.

"Hello! I don't know if anyone can hear me, but I'm Male, and I'm Outdoors at Night. If this is a problem, please call 911. If anyone can hear me, I'm Not a Rapist, but just in case I am and don't know it, I thought I'd let everybody know where I am, so I can get mugged instead of you. Message repeats: Hello! I don't know if anyone can ..."

the-tominator · 2014-11-06T05:54:09+00:00

"Sexual assault" on campus is mostly drunken hookups and bitter exes. women aren't going to have to worry about dudes jumping out of the bushes.

it's not that women haven't actually been sexually assaulted on campus, mind you, but the numbers are grossly exaggerated, hence producing the paranoia behind comments like this. girls, just go to class and live your lives. don't get stupid blotto and don't date assholes.

eletheros · 2014-11-06T04:23:18+00:00

I suggest walking around at night, but when near a "chick" attempt to move as silently as possible.

The people making these absurd demands need to learn that they don't have that sort of power over people.

Jaykaykaykay · 2014-11-06T11:28:04+00:00

Change guys to black people.

turk1559 · 2014-11-06T21:30:57+00:00

Remember boys and girls, feminism teaches that women are both empowered and so incredibly fragile that we literally need to alter the way we walk down the street so as to not break their brittle psyches.

OneGirlArmy · 2014-11-06T20:26:00+00:00

How about no one should be creepy at night when they are around people. I love how everything is a gender issue to people. People can't see past their own gender.

NUMBERS2357 · 2014-11-06T07:55:48+00:00

Most feminists will even agree, sexual assault randomly happening while someone's walking around at night is pretty rare.

The same people asking men to act a certain way while walking down the street, because they're worried, probably worry more when the guy is black.

CMOS222 · 2014-11-06T11:15:03+00:00

Some good advice for men if you are walking down the street at night and there is a woman ahead of you

Roddy0608 · 2014-11-06T13:00:57+00:00

But if a guy is a potential rapist, he's going to want to be sneaky anyway! He won't care what his potential victim requests.

DevilishRogue · 2014-11-06T13:19:22+00:00

To be fair, I'd make noise to avoid startling a guy I was walking behind too.

Roguta · 2014-11-06T13:41:15+00:00

Don't ask how is this fair. Ask how is it possible that someone believes it to be fair.

Elvick · 2014-11-06T13:52:47+00:00

Wouldn't trying to be silent and follow from a distance make you more suspicious?...

user1492 · 2014-11-06T14:39:33+00:00

I was going to sneak up on a woman on campus and rape her, but how can I do that while walking slow and loud?

Curses, foiled again!

Keiichi81 · 2014-11-06T15:42:24+00:00

Black guys, if you're walking near a white chick at night, please make noise or walk slower. Something.

Funny how when you add black and white to it, suddenly it's horribly racist.

BorisIvanovich · 2014-11-06T16:36:31+00:00

fuckbeingpolite · 2014-11-06T20:05:49+00:00

Sometimes I run at night and I've been yelled at a couple times from startled women as I've passed them.

I usually just say, "I'm not responsible for your insecurities." and keep going. Whatever name they call me afterwards, I don't give a fuck.

ThePigmanAgain · 2014-11-06T21:41:49+00:00

Noise? How about "Boo"?

scramtek · 2014-11-07T00:37:04+00:00

Come on. At night I wear a hi-vis jacket, a flashing beacon on my head and an air-horn that sounds every ten seconds. Won't someone please think of the women!

skinnybignose · 2014-11-09T07:44:57+00:00

"Please make noise". What kind of noise? Grunt? Hum? Stamp your feet loudly? Makes you seem weird if you ask me, and surely being weird makes it worse.

Nasjere · 2014-11-06T04:36:09+00:00

Now anything I comment on anything it's down voted and people are attacking me how on earth is this fair?

the-tominator · 2014-11-06T07:37:06+00:00

A campus is probably one of the safest places there is as well. Their obsession with campuses makes no sense. I live on a campus now and it is the least threatening place I've been. A normal suburban street, not rough or anything, is far more dangerous than a campus - and still one of the safest places in the real world.

I think you have to be quite paranoid, hysterical even, and to have been extremely sheltered for the previous part of your life, to find a campus scary or intimidating.

Then again, I guess the kind of people that posted that were of the nutty kind.

topsecreteltee · 2014-11-06T05:08:18+00:00

Better yet, pull out the pistol that you are legally carrying with concealed carry permit. Tell the woman to get down on the ground and not make any threatening movements. Call 911, tell them that somebody is threatening you. When they respond you can explain that 50% of sexual assault is female on male and that you refuse to be a statistic. End satire.

Title	How is this fair?
Author	Nasjere
Upvotes	89
Comments	46
Date	November 6, 2014 4:01 AM UTC (11 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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