Acquired I agree that I don't like that women are taught to be wary of men. However, I also think that in the current climate it's something that needs to happen - because by far the biggest risk to a woman, in terms of something violent happening to her, is that it will be a man who does it.
Obviously, we teach girls AND boys to be wary of other things too. Strangers in general, for children, and we teach them to read situations for threats, which can come in all forms.
However, when we talk about 'threat' from men, in conversations like this one it's not just about a life-changing violent event. It's about everyday stuff - the casual behaviours of many many men towards woman that subtly reinforce the message of 'you, as a woman, are right to be wary about men'. And even media messages too. Messages that say 'as a woman, your sexuality is the property of men, if they want it.'
I would love to say 'I will stop seeing men as a possible threat'. And obviously, I don't see all men as immediately and frighteningly threatening. But until I stop getting my wariness reinforced I don't see how I can write it off.
And yes, this is just my personal experience. But honestly, ask any woman. They will say pretty much the same thing, except in an awful lot of cases they'll have much more hard and damaging evidence of men hurting them. I'm a lucky one.