If they were as vulnerable and scared as they make they wouldnt be forcing themselves into womens spaces, if they were scared they wouldn’t walk the streets in ridiculous mini skirts with their massive fake boobs out, they wouldn’t behave like complete exhibitionists and demand that, despite owning a pen, they are just as much of a woman as I am. If they were so worried and frightened they wouldn’t demand we stop using the term mother or breastfeed, they’d allow women to speak openly about menstruation without either fetishising it or making it about them.
This. So many of these men have no real idea of what it means to fear male violence.
I cannot open my front door without shouting behind me at my dog to stop barking. I don't do it because I want him to stop, I do it so whoever is on the other side knows I have a dog.
We shrink ourselves down, we hide, we walk with our keys between our knuckles, we cover the neck of our bottles with our thumbs, we go to the bathroom in groups, we cringe and walk faster when we're catcalled...because most of us have experienced male violence in one way or another, from a very young age. I'm generalising of course, but I don't believe many of these men are scared in the way I am. Because I know what it's like to face male violence, and lose.