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I just want to say, it's not just about femicide, rape and that sort of stuff. Men being dangerous is a spectrum, and those are the high points, but sexist comments, pressuring, bargaining, and much more can also be part of the spectrum.

This is just the Bayesian approach; overall men have high enough tendancy for aggression and sexual assault that from a risk analysis point it makes sense to be on your guard until you get to know that person better. Of course media has a bias for presenting the awful stuff that happens in the world, one would rarely get coverage of a heart warming relationship between two people involving atleast one man. So these priors despite being in the correct direction might be biased too.

But I think, neither the shark anology or the expression "all man are dangerous" is useful for getting this point across though.

I see no comments acknowledging or even a vague awareness of what the Grape Academy is. It's important to the comment.

Ragebait or just being a shit person? Get in the bin either way, I don't need to see more from you.

It's bad for women but it's even worse for children. Women are at a disadvantage but can at least take some precautions, arm themselves and try to fight back. Kids are literally defenseless. Hence we should treat all adults as pedophiles just in case. We don't know which shark might bite them.

I hate this argument every time I see it. It could be used to justify so many terrible prejudices that we’ve been trying to get rid of for decades. I got robbed by a black man once so should I now treat all black men as potential criminals?

OK. I was abused by a woman. And know of many cases of abusive women (men too, but we've already decided in this context that all men are dangerous, so that's beside the point). So this means all women are dangerous, too?

trash like this always ruins all nuance

might as well be justifying racist stereotypes or calling women gold diggers

I'm a feminist and I don't get this argument at all. There are plenty of dangerous women too so all women as well? It makes no sense and it's pure toxic femcel delusion.

Also as an ex-professional scuba diver: the shark analogy is a great illustration how stupidly inaccurate this argument is.

The problem is equating males to sharks. The exact same arguments have been directed at ethnic groups in the past.

I used to think this way, "hey it's not all men"! That was until my wife was roofied in a bar. Luckily I was there, just in the bathroom, and when I came out the coward bolted away, but it shattered all of my illusions about my own gender.

She put her drink down for less than 5 seconds, at her table, with other friends there. They were distracted for a split second while he put something in her drink. God knows what would have happened if I wasn't there.

Men, we all need to understand that it may be a few bad apples, but a few bad apples spoil the bunch. Women have to keep their guard up because one slip, 10 seconds of being distracted is all it takes. Before that incident I never thought about how guarded they have to be.. all the time. It's insane. Even that instance she was with corowrkers and her fiance was there! She hadn't talked to anyone else and still it happened to her! We never have to worry about things like that. Hell I'm pretty sure just this week I set my drink down and went to the bathroom, and still it didn't cross my mind to check.

Men bad because, yes, men are real fucking bad. There's people out there who literally do try this shit, and as a woman meeting people they don't know who you are or what you'll try. It is not as simple as "Why don't the trust us"? Because some of us slip roofies into drinks, that's why. Real men will see that and vow to punch those fucking cowards in the face, watch their female friend's drinks for them, and many other things.

I mean maybe it's because your statement was explicitly "all men are dangerous", not "men are dangerous"

Reminds me of this:

"If I had a bowl of skittles and I told you just three would kill you, would you take a handful?" said the tweet on the verified @DonaldTrumpJr handle.

"That's our Syrian refugee problem," said the post, which caused a stir and negative tweets on the internet into Tuesday.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/donald-trump-jr-likens-syrian-refugees-poisoned-skittles

Are you sure THIS is how we should think?

Gr8 b8 m8 I r8 8/8

Also sharks are awesome, they are older than trees, have important ecological roles and most sharks won't attack any humans. Some even can befriend you, like a toothy puppy.

The ones that do, tend to do it for curiosity and dislike us because were boney and hurts their teef, it is not their fault that we have the bad habit of bleeding out when we're in the sea.

As analogies go, this is a bad one:

• You can easily learn which sharks are dangerous.
• You will be warned when you go swimming in a dangerous area.
• You can even take precautions that reduce substantially that danger.

I don't think it is as easy understanding when someone might hurt you, and it is not like you can choose to have your date be in the water while you chat them up from a boat.