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[–]GenderbenderShe/her/hers 2 insightful - 7 fun2 insightful - 6 fun3 insightful - 7 fun -  (3 children)

Why are you against safeguarding so much? This is so bizzare.

Just because I'm against sex-segregated spaces in particular, doesn't mean I'm against safeguarding.

Ah, I see, you are from that part of people, who believe that women are guilty in being raped.

Victims are never to blame for their rape.

Why you can't name the problem? It is males who are raping females. Men who are raping women, in 99+% cases, depending on country. Do not obscure problem, as problem can not be solved if it can not be named.

Women abusing men is more common than that. The problem is men are much less likely to be taken seriously when they report abuse by women. Here's an article on WaPo about trans men. Trystan Cotton is a black trans man and a professor of gender studies at California State University Stanislaus. When he worked at another university pre-transition and presenting as a woman, he was harassed by males and the university reacted immediately, even sending a police escort with him to and from campus. After he transitioned he was harassed at this university by a female student he was mentoring, and his adviser and the dean — both women — laughed it off. Why the difference in responses? Is it because now he's a big scary tough guy who can't be abused by women? While I believe more men abuse women than vice versa, women abusing men is more common than you think. Read this study titled A Review of Research on Women’s Use of Violence With Male Intimate Partners.

One study of 2,991 Air Force personnel who committed physical abuse against a spouse found that 23% of the offenders were female

Studies with college samples also find that men and women commit similar rates of physical aggression (Cercone, Beach, & Arias, 2005) or that a higher prevalence of women commit physical aggression (Straus, 2004).

But many people believe women don't abuse men, especially many (but not all) gender criticals. Here is a post from the old GC sub.

Get it through your heads. Women. Don't. Abuse. Men. PERIOD. Women don't have physical power over men. Women are not threatening to men. Women are not a danger to men. Women do not have power over men or advantages over men.

That comment was upvoted by many GCs. The person who wrote the next comment was downvoted and their comment was removed by the mods.

This is bullshit. How fucking dare you. Women have abused men. No where near the numbers that MRAs claim, that is true. But my mother tried to kill my father and her children because she didn't want us anymore. I have friends who had abusive mothers, who were also abusive to their husbands. And no, our fathers were not abusive. Just because they couldn't match men in physical strength didn't mean that they couldn't cause hurt.

Read this thread on Ovarit titled "Abuse is not "just female related" - it happens vice verse all the time, even if it's not that visual but it hurts even more." Sure, buddy, whatever you say.. They linked to a reddit post where a man says there should be more films and shows about women abusing men. Ovarit mocked the OP, even saying "men actually have the expectation of being treated well" when that's not always the case. Here is an article on Feminist Current making up false statistics on women abusing men.

While in this society it's difficult for female abuse victims to be taken seriously, male abuse victims are much, much less likely than female victims to be taken serious. Just as trans men. They've seen sexism from both sides and can tell you the differences in how they were treated as females vs. males.

[–]HouseplantWomen who disagree with QT are a different sex 16 insightful - 2 fun16 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

If women are so violent, abusive, and dangerous to males, why on earth is it so crucial to y’all that males get access to female spaces?

[–]GenderbenderShe/her/hers 4 insightful - 7 fun4 insightful - 6 fun5 insightful - 7 fun -  (1 child)

Not all women are abusive to males. Not all males are abusive to women.

Keep in mind this is also a trans men fight. Trans men are fighting for access to male facilities as much as trans women are fighting for access to female facilities.

[–]AlexisK 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not all women are abusive to males. Not all males are abusive to women.

It just "happens" that 95% of all violence against women is done by men and 95% of all violence against men is done by men.

Do not try to show it like women are equally violent.