Post #2001674

I have a friend who is a woman who *insisted* that it's a *majority* of men who do things like grope women on dance floors or exhibit other such sex pest behaviors. I pushed back on this because I quite strongly believe that not to be the case, and pointed out that encountering such men *a majority of the time* when going out doesn't require a majority of men to behave that way. An incidence rate of, say, one in twenty still virtually guarantees you'll run into multiple if you're in a crowd of sufficient size. I'm also not trying to downplay the seriousness of it being a very real problem. Nor do I deny her lived experience of encountering that behavior often when going to concerts or whatever. Literally just pointing out that such an experience doesn't require a majority. She got offended, calling me out for not believing her and accused me of making a "not all men" argument to try to invalidate what she was saying, despite explicitly agreeing that it's a problem that needs addressing.