WomensStuff

I hear you, but worth mentioning that most men have been in the presence of something stronger and aggressive, in the form of other men. From abusive father's, older siblings, to the general school environment. Violence and the threat of violence is something men feel growing up and it doesn't really go away.

I'm not saying that threat isn't more acute for women, or minimizing that lived experience - when a man is trying to force himself onto you it must be terrifying and I know from my sisters and wife that it happens a lot, and often in more subtle and low-key ways than outright aggression (although that's often the underlying threat).

But yeah.. as someone who's been beaten up a few times just for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, or wearing the wrong t-shirt, I'm under no illusion as to how dangerous men can be.