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Man maced in convenience store.

zeldamaster666

July 24, 2014

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Title	Man maced in convenience store.
Author	zeldamaster666
Upvotes	17
Comments	31
Date	July 24, 2014 1:05 PM UTC (12 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/mensrights/comments/2blalu/man-maced-in-convenience-store/
Archive Link	https://theredarchive.com/r/MensRights/man-maced-in-convenience-store.1619521 https://theredarchive.com/post/1619521

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/r/feminism does not need to expose stories about men behaving badly because it is already a commonly accepted fact in society that men can and do commit crimes.

In popular culture, be it games, movies, etc, the regular "mooks" whom the hero cuts down by the dozens are almost exclusively men. Cutting them down is justified because they are evil. That's about the depth these mooks have. They are men and they are evil, and we accept this at a glance, without knowing anything about their history, their motivations, etc, because we have been trained to know that they are the "bad guys". Notice how even that term is gendered.

When people warn their children about stranger danger, they almost always tell them to be careful of strange men. People have been known to call the police simply because a man is sitting on a bench looking at their children in the park. This is exclusively done with men, never with women.

Men are on average bigger and physically stronger than women are on average. This in turn means people are more easily intimidated by men then by women. If you walk through a dark alley, would you sooner see a man or a woman waiting for you at the end? Most people would pick a woman since they perceive them as less dangerous and thus they perceive themselves as being at lower risk.

This idea that men can be dangerous is deeply ingrained in our culture. So deeply that pointing it out in /r/feminism is pointless. Everyone already knows men can be bad. Thus, feminism does not need a MBB tag to convince people of this.

The reverse does not hold.

In popular culture, be it games, movies, etc. female mooks are practically non-existent. One might call "zombies" as an example and indeed there are female zombies, but these characters have are only evil because they are zombies. They aren't simply "evil" because they are allied with the "bad guys".

Female villains do exist, and like the zombies, these almost always have some reason beyond their control that causes them to be evil - they were abused (usually by a father, boyfriend or strange man, rarely by a woman), they were raped, they were forced into it by a bad influence, etc. The key is that though these women are evil, it is not -their- fault. Male villains are far more likely to simply be evil because they are evil.

Likewise, women are not perceived as dangerous for children or as dangerous in general.

In reality, gender has very little to do with whether someone is a bad person or not. Both men and women do horrible things and both men and women can be heroes. Moreover, both are good and bad people with equal likelihood, and both can be bad or good people because of circumstance or because of personality or even both.

By sharing stories of women behaving badly, we illustrate a counter-point that it is "not just men" who can do bad things. /r/feminism does not need to illustrate that counter-point.

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