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To think the men women need protecting from aren’t asylum seekers but the ones shouting outside the hotels?

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ForSoberBrickOwl · 05/09/2025 19:36

I read in the Guardian this week that 40% of the men arrested during last year’s racist riots had already been reported to police for domestic abuse. That stat hasn’t left my mind.
It makes me think that the men standing outside asylum hotels claiming to “protect” women are often the very ones we need protecting from.

AIBU to think the real danger isn’t coming from migrants, it’s coming from the violent, radicalised men already here who use women’s safety as a smokescreen?

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BloodandGlitter · 05/09/2025 19:52

So many women have crimes committed against them by white men and other men turn a blind eye to it and either excuse it or defend it. They all play blind until someone of a different colour commits a crime against women then it's a problem.

Sadcafe · 05/09/2025 19:51

Seeing as though the man in the hotel that’s been the centre of so much news recently has been found guilty of several counts of sexual assault, it’s fair to say some are clearly a danger to women, as sadly are some men outside the hotel. I genuinely think it’s going too far to automatically label all men a danger to women, some of us really are ok

WilfredsPies · 05/09/2025 19:48

I think you’re being a bit silly to attempt to compartmentalise it like that. The risk to women comes overwhelmingly from men. Men of all ages, ethnicities, political and religious beliefs, social and economic classes and nationalities.

Attempting to simplify it into ‘this group are fine but that group are dangerous’ makes your argument just as daft as the lot claiming that all migrants are dangerous.

MyAcornWood · 05/09/2025 19:39

It’s been said often enough that you must know you aren’t alone in thinking that.
personally I don’t like to discriminate… it’s all men that are the issue 🙃

Zov · 05/09/2025 19:38

YABVVVVVU.

notacooldad · 05/09/2025 19:38

I think women need protecting from lots of men in general!