Post #1683294
2026-03-09 15:27 UTC
@afewbugs @Mab_813 I was wrong and I must apologize. I fully agree that men need to step up more. My clumsy point was that men can also be good and would help. As a man it is not always easy to see what is exactly is happening
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@afewbugs@social.coop 2026-03-09 15:46
@Robo105 @Mab_813 first of all thank you for the apology, I appreciate that. I think where a lot of the sort of decent men who _wouldn't_ attack a woman go wrong in imagining these scenarios is picturing themselves as the bystander who would help a woman if asked without demanding anything in return. But you need to be picturing yourselves as the woman instead. You know you're safe, but she has no way of knowing that. Only a minority of men are likely to be dangerous, but without any way of predicting whether any random man like yourself is one of them it's a dangerous gamble for her to take.