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Don't be so silly! Women love men!
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Do women fear men?
Generally they do. It’s part biological and it’s part taught from society or bad experiences. Men are usually physically stronger and testosterone levels can make them sexually aggressive. This naturally leaves many women with the fear of being assaulted physically and/or sexually.
From a common sense perspective that’s understandable. But mass communication bombards both men and women of violence against women. Some stories are true, some are exaggerated and others are completely false. But the messaging is there. However most men have a protective instinct to defend women. It’s one of the reasons why women weren’t allowed in combat positions in the military so long. Men psychologically react different to a women being hurt vs a man being hurt. It breaks up teams.
But there are a few sad and disgusting paradoxes with all of this. The feeling of fear women have is also closely related to the sexual adrenaline rushes they have from being dominated. Many have “rape fantasies”. Meanwhile men who are NOT natural mind readers have to make a sometimes dangerous decision to be aggressive or play it safe thanks to #metoo. Again most men are protective. So this makes us less ambitious with women out of fear of harming them. This shitty paradox frustrates both men AND women.
Then there are women who lie or exaggerate that they “feel” threatened to avoid emotionally uncomfortable yet riskless confrontations and/or responsibilities. Pathetic women who ghost guys based on a “feeling” vs. anything he actually said or did fall into this category. I see through that bullshit and know you are just lying to avoid doing that right thing (like texting a guy saying you can’t make it.).
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I think a reasonable argument can be made that certain wariness is reasonably justified for a multitude of reasons, all of which fundamentally relate to a lack of information.
If we're making the strict but logical assumption that the woman does not know the guy, she does not know the content of his character. She is not familiar with the guy's intentions, what he considers to be reasonably boundaries, what he wants, how he in general behaves. Furthermore, it is almost a given that the probability of a random man being significantly stronger than a regular woman is quite high.
It basically is a situation where in a particular situation that is more shady, such as late at night, a woman does not know the intentions of a random guy, does not know his behaviour, what he wants while simultaneously being reasonably sure that he could easily overpower her. Sprinkle that with horror stories and generally shoddy experiences with some guys who just take what they want, and you have a reasonable wariness for a random man on the street during shady times.
Of course I'm not saying a particular fear to men in general is justified or even prejudicial feelings. However, I think it's reasonable to think that a degree of keeping your guard up is justified.
I'd like to think that growing up, women love men, like their father or a sibling. What I can say though, even from the onset of puberty, where boys aren't even really men, women fear men's indecision, lack of commitment, entitlement, stonewalling, and "I don't have to deal with this attitude." Obviously this is universal, and women are just as likely to behaviorally treat men poorly, thus instilling a fear of women into men.
I can also say, often times, there is just a size thing that matters. I think boys stop "fearing" their dad when they are like 16/17 and in some ways are just as tall as their dads. Women often are short and by shear mass, smaller. To know what it's like to argue with a "man", men go pick a fight with someone who is bigger than you and who could easily best you in a brawl fight if they just "decided" that it would be easier to threaten you than to take the time to talk and resolve problems.
I think so many men just aren't aware of how blocking exits or throwing items or making fists when they''re angry are just examples of threatening behavior. Just because you can "make" someone stop talking words at you quickly, doesn't actually resolve problems, or heck, make someone feel like you value their thoughts or opinion. Relationships take effort and they take patience, and if all of your disagreements end up with a man yelling at a woman to shut up, or slamming doors loudly or "getting really angry," just remember that feeling of being a kid, and having some bigger kid say, "so what tiny, what are you gonna do about it, NOTHING"
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I don’t fear men at all. Why would I? I’ve been fortunate enough that no man has ever given me a reason to be scared of him. If you go through life being afraid of half the population for no reason, most of whom you have never met and will never meet in your life, then I think you have some kind of mental health issues that should be dealt with.
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Every individual and situation is different. Most of the time, I feel very safe, and I don't even consider that there could be threats around me. I would only be afraid of a man when he gives me a reason to be afraid. I'll give examples.
One time I was enjoying myself on holiday in Barcelona. I was wearing a long silk dress on a very busy street. Suddenly I was separated from the people I was with, in a city I didn't know. Then a gust of wind blew up my dress up to my thighs, and a group of men literally started screaming at me from a truck. I'm not even sure they were speaking, just making a racket. In that moment, everyone looked at me and I was scared of all the guys in that truck so I walked away fast. See it all depends on individual and situation. I'm not good under pressure so I get scared where some people would not. I was also already frightened, lost in a city I hadn't been to before. If that hadn't already happened, the shouting I would probably have just brushed off, slightly annoyed and forgotten about it. So as you can see, women don't look at a man as a threat really, different situations evoke different emotions. 1.5K opinions shared on Girl's Behavior topic. Yes, of course women fear men and that with good reasons.
Men tend to be much more violent, stronger and abusive than women. This has been proved in many scientific studies and history & evolution has unfortunately demonstrated numerous times.
Men have always taken advantage of women in all fields possible, starting with sexual abuse since the begin of humanity. Also, women have been reduced to domestic slaves and prevented to gain access to education in the past.
Women should fear men because in those millions of years, evolution has not changed an iota. If it was not for legal protection that women have nowadays in the more civilized countries, they still would be at the same level as they were in the cave age.
That is very unfortunate that society needs to specifically protect women from men.766 opinions shared on Girl's Behavior topic. This is one of the big why it's hard to embrace being a man. As a baby "aww... Look at you, women are going to be afraid of you... Yes they are, yes they are, you are going to be my little bundle of fear, doesn't that feel good" ... It's much easier from the woman's side to say men are something to be feared. It's easy to do. Where this becomes constructive, short of getting a restraining order on all men, what can we do to reward men that try to be like Mr. Rogers instead of placing him in a box and telling everyone to be scared of Mr. Rogers because he is a man.
I'm coming from a place of full understanding that men take advantage of women, they overpower them, abusive and misuse the strength given to them. To end it's scary to be a woman.
But if men are fear, I'd rather take hormones and surgery and lose muscles than be labeled like that. There has to be a middle ground somewhere...I’d say it depends on what you mean by fear. Do I think that most guys will hurt me? No. But do I think that there are some who would? Yes. And I also know for a fact that most of them could if they wanted to. And that I don’t know which are the ones who would. So while I’m not suspicious of guys in general, I’m certainly hesitant to be alone with a guy I don’t know. I don’t feel safe as the only woman in a room. And I don’t like to be touched by anyone I don’t know, but especially guys, simply because I know they’re stronger than me and that if they decide to do something, there’s not much I can do to fight them off.
In high school I had a lot of insecurities from boys in my class taking advantage of me and touching my without my permission, insulting me and making jokes about how women don't need rights the whole year which isn't very funny to me anymore because I've heard it my whole life. I'm not a feminazi but I feel like situations like this make me more likely to be cautious around men when im alone if I don't know or trust them and I suppose this might be a similar situation for a lot of women. In general though if you are polite and come off as friendly I won't be afraid of you :)
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The only time I remember being scared of men was when I see very very drunk homeless men who can't control their movements, one time they were shouting at another man who was just walking by... And another scenario is at night, when I'm going home and on the street it's only me and a man with a hood or brooding expression, I get a little bit scared, even though I realize "I've been in this situation and felt this fear so many times and nothing happened to me at the end! Relax it's just a person walking home!" Lol
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No they are not afraid of men. Infact women love 'men'.
They are afraid of rats who live in holes, who can't handle independent and strong women, who use sexual abuse to overpower someone, have ego issues, can't handle rejection. 768 opinions shared on Girl's Behavior topic. Yes, they do.
And I didn't understand that until late 2017 when I read "The Power" by Naomi Alderman and then read later about the book and that fear from the author and other women. I just never had realized the fear that women have of us getting angry at them because of the danger that we represent by being bigger and stronger.
In the book, the tide is turned as women gain a physical ability to deliver electric shocks that can kill. Males do not have this ability. The world quickly changes over the next decade as the patriarchal nature of the world ends being replaced with women in roles of power.
Worst of all for me as a reader, I felt that fear that women now feel. I could imagine myself walking alone in a city and then easily being attacked, raped, tortured, or killed by even teenage girls solely on a whim of theirs. It was then that I "got it" about their fear.
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Some do. Some women don't fear men enough. I had a woman decide to call me out. I just ignored her, until she went to slap me, at which point I clubbed her down. Ladies, don't ever think that you are powerful enough to bully a man; we are, as a class, much better at violence than you are. It's only our natural inclination to protect you that keeps us from treating you like men, and you can burn through that fairly easily if you forget it.
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Who wouldn’t be scared? When a 40 yo man starts checking you out at Walmart and ur 13 years old... oml I freakin hate people like that.
Who knows if they are finna take me, rape me, or beat me!!!
Like can’t you see that I’m a fucking child? I’m fucking scarred for life bro. -
The media hollywood our own government and feminism had done great damage to western society pushing propaganda against men demonizing us and vilifying us. It's why millions of men like myself have gone MGTOW, me I'm almost a 34 year monk as of this summer. Men are the one's that need protection here in the west.
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A woman can feel safe, secure, and appreciated in a man's hard arms and strong embrace. There are good men out there who love to protect and use their strength (and other qualities) to everyone's benefit! Overall, men and women should compliment one another, not take advantage.
Fear of men can be a reality depending on the circumstances though. I would say be cautious and observant, (avoid bad-looking crowds and look for any warning signs whilst you're getting to know a man \ dating), BUT never assume the worst until you've been given a reason to. And if you have a reason to fear someone or something, get out. If this is for the world, then no, I think a small amount of women fear men, not including intimidation. Do American women fear men? Yes, I think they do. I think while some men are harmful, most aren't. However, take my opinion with salt, as I think that the vast majority of American women hate and despise men as a whole
Personally no, other men feel me more than women. Women have a sixth sense for specific guys.
Girls fear passive-aggressive men and I'm controlled-aggressive. In other words I say directly if something pisses me off but never lose control, compared to other type of guys who accumulate their anger until it explodes in uncontrolled rage.-
When will people stop asking these questions? You need like 2 brain cells to know each individual is different. Of course if I see a creepy dude on the street following me I am going to be cautious, same with anyone when i am alone at night. Actually, when I wear my black winter javket and have my hoodie on people seem to get extra cautious with me too. Of course I am not going to fear everyone who is male just because they are male.
1.5K opinions shared on Girl's Behavior topic. Totally depends on the situation. I don't fear men by default, but I fear them in certain situations. Like late at night when I'm walking home from work. Or if I'm alone somewhere and a sketchy man approaches.
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I do. I faced some child abuse as a toddler and the guy who did that is pursuing a career in being a cop. Makes me wonder just how many men in these positions to help us have secretly taken wrong advantage of vulnerable people themselves.
I don't mean to, but it's kinda survival instinct. I'm not a man, I don't know how men's minds work. I'm not as strong or as fast as a man and typically would be the prey in a violent situation.
While I like to act tough, there's plenty of times when men make me uneasy. But it's definitely not all men, especially in public places. I have fun conversations with lots of stranger men, and it's nice to do and I don't feel scared.- 447 opinions shared on Girl's Behavior topic.
No. The vast majority of guys would never hurt you and if anything your safer with one around.
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I wouldn't say I fear men. Just the ones I like or care about: those are the ones that typically wind up hurting or letting me down.
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