This. I taught my son my son basically the same stuff about women my conservative dad taught, albeit from opposite motives and philosophy: you do not hit them *ever*, you do not hurt them, you do not take advantage of them if they're weaker like you don't anybody else, you do not rape them.
We're also actually the majority, or there'd be a lot more rapes. And I don't know about anybody else, but I've stepped up on aggressive creepy guys a number of times in my life. I went with a bunch of guys to...ah...strongly encourage a rapist to go away and never come back once, when his victim wouldn't press charges.
I don't make a habit of hanging out with guys who *wouldn't* do that, personally. I guess that would be my only suggestion for any woman who thinks the majority of liberal/left American men are weenies on that score: the world is full of left-leaning (and not) males who've been in fights before and aren't afraid to face down an aggressive bully or take a punch over it, if it comes to that. Hang out with more of those guys. We exist.
BTW, I don't actually have any stories about how I didn't rape my drunk girlfriend, once, just like I don't have any stories about how I didn't murder her or hang her out a window and listen to her screams. That's kind of a weird statement.
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Re: 90%?
Date: 2009-06-07 09:48 pm (UTC)We're also actually the majority, or there'd be a lot more rapes. And I don't know about anybody else, but I've stepped up on aggressive creepy guys a number of times in my life. I went with a bunch of guys to...ah...strongly encourage a rapist to go away and never come back once, when his victim wouldn't press charges.
I don't make a habit of hanging out with guys who *wouldn't* do that, personally. I guess that would be my only suggestion for any woman who thinks the majority of liberal/left American men are weenies on that score: the world is full of left-leaning (and not) males who've been in fights before and aren't afraid to face down an aggressive bully or take a punch over it, if it comes to that. Hang out with more of those guys. We exist.
BTW, I don't actually have any stories about how I didn't rape my drunk girlfriend, once, just like I don't have any stories about how I didn't murder her or hang her out a window and listen to her screams. That's kind of a weird statement.