It's what comes from living in a bubble where you can censor anyone who disagrees. Saidit has to be a shock to the system.

I was a channer before joining Reddit, believe it or not. Not everyone who disagrees with you is an American liberal. Stay smooth brained.

even as an ideal the existence of gentlemen was predicated upon the existence of ladies.

Precisely. It was a method of control, an excuse for men to act out violently when women didn't behave the way they want while still maintaining the illusion that they were "nice guys" to themselves.

I would like to speak to the manager of your brain, she's not doing a very good job at all

You're speaking to her. Clutch those pearls all you want, baby, but it's true. Statistically speaking, women are far more likely to be assaulted by a man they knew personally. Moreover, men who "wouldn't hit a girl" are most likely to make an exception for women they know. All evidence points towards greater danger faced by women who are in close proximity to men. I pity heterosexual women.