It’s not really the same. Blaming men is blaming a societal issue. Its saying that, even though a huge number of men are fine the issues are pervasive enough that even the ‘fine’ ones can be scary. Every woman I’ve spoken to over the past week has said that no matter who it is at night, when they’re by themselves every man is a bit scary. That every day they will get at least one instance that makes them uncomfortable, be it a comment or someone staring etc. You’re pretty much just making the ‘not all men’ argument. It isn’t all men but it’s more than enough of them.Think I've said this a few times on here over the past year but stuff like this is just making me feel as detached from the left as I do from the right. THe left seems to have descended into daft angry hypocrasy.
Firstly, at the risk of sounding controversial, I've seen a LOT of posts on social media along the lines of "men you need to sort yourself out", "why isn't there a curfew on men being allowed out", "Just because you don't do it doesn't mean you aren't to blame"....Blaming "men" for the fact a man murdered a woman or even for the fact sexual assault is obviously a big problem, is the same logic as blaming "Muslims" for the fact terrorism exists or saying "black people need to sort themselves out" if there's a stabbing involving a black person. It's ignorant and stupid and extremely counter productive, and also obviously incorrect. The idea of protesting or arguing a cause is to unite people behind it to bring about change. You don't unite people to your cause by immediately tarring all of them as the enemy. That's what a villain in a comic book does. When did supposedly intelligent people start defaulting to this line of reasoning so easily? It seems to happen every time there is something to be outraged about.
People protest in absolutes, they exaggerate for effect, no ones going to chant ‘men are scary, well actually not all men, some men. I mean a good fair few men are. Not you though, don’t think this is aimed at you. But maybe you should change some habits, or call out your friends. Yet there are some really awful men out there.’