There is a meme out there that literally compares meeting a man to playing Russian Roulette. Yes, that’s right. The suggestion that simply by meeting a man, on any given day, you have a one in six chance of dying immediately. I don’t think I am alone in classifying such an idea as ‘a bit much’. And in fact, such a meme will not help women ‘feel safe’, but in fact feel terrified. So why has nobody ever done the maths to actually work out how dangerous men as a group are? How many legitimately violent and dangerous people are out there? Because let’s be clear on one thing – just because 90% of violent criminals are men, does not mean 90% of men are violent criminals. The majority of violent crime is perpetrated my a small minority of people, who yes, are mostly men. But outside of this, the vast majority of men are perfectly lovely, and no more or less dangerous than an average woman. And yet, such ideas remain boring to the shrill cries of gender advocacy, whose angry shrieks continue to explode all around us, causing a moral panic around men. Voices that compare any male interaction to, as Jamela Jamil calls it – ‘like rolling the dice with your life’. ...are you serious? Going outside in modern Britain, as a woman, is ‘like rolling the dice with your life.’ So I ask again, how are such words going to make women feel safer? And what do such dramatic, fear mongering and dehumanising thought experiments do for the mental health of our men and boys? I’d say it’s a lose lose. So let’s try again. Here are the numbers… ~ Study #notallmen

2023-02-08