@Annoyedanddissapointed
99% of sexual offending is by males, and 88% of those victimised are women.
Quite wonder ehat would happen to these figures if women started going to gyms to strength match most average males.
Would the rates drop? Would the offenders turned against weaker males witha lack of potential female victims? Would more wome assault anyone since it's more about power than sex and with strenght comes power? Would dv numbers change?
Women, taken as an average, can't strength match males. We are not physically capable of it. That's why we have separate categories in sports. Yes, the youngest and fittest women could beat the most sedentary males their age. But this isn't about exceptions, is it? Women aren't beaten and raped by men because we're meek and feeble. It's because we are physically unable to stop them, the vast majority of the time.
Women can produce human beings from our bodies, which is a fairly phenomenal ability. But the reason all cultures across the globe subjugate women, and control their sexual potential and their reproductive potential, is because men are bigger and stronger than we are, and can make us, unless society puts sufficient barriers in their way.
The Williams sisters were defeated in straight sets by a man outside the top 200 mens, who prepared by playing golf and having a pint or two. he smoked Marlboro in the breaks. There are numerous US schoolboy individuals and sports teams that defeat every Olympian women's individual and sports team. There are thousands of men alive who could break women's sporting records at any given time. It's not skill, and it sure as hell can't be training. It's biology.
It's not just about height; it's lung capacity, muscle capacity, twitch muscle response. Men are faster, stronger and even designed differently in gait to women. Their bodies are always going to defeat ours - we need to shift the culture so their entitlement doesn't scaffold those who abuse that strength differential to make us live in justified fear.
The 'good men' make sexist comments which then support the 'bad men'. Insisting that not your Johnny, no, not ever, as so many women do just locates the problem of societal attitudes amongst a few bad apples. Which is bullshit.
Sarah Everard's killer was called "the rapist' by his own colleagues, yet he was progressed to work with guns in the Met. Nobody did a thing about reports of indecent exposure. We need men to stop participating in a bit of a laugh to the odd woman, which is a constant barrage for young women and girls - and which means men who genuinely predate are lost in the forests of men who think it's all in good fun. It isn't. It's par of what makes women demeaned and seen as lesser. This shit does not happen to men often at all, and when the odd woman does do it, she does not have the huge strength advantage that makes it so genuinely threatening when a man does it and you are out alone.