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nomorenomore08

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5. So you equate women's wariness of strange men, with racism?

Reply to lumberjack_jeff (Reply #4)

Fri Jun 28, 2013, 02:45 AM

Jun 2013

What we're talking about here is not a matter of "difference" or "otherness." It's the fact that a woman, over her lifetime, has a comparatively very high chance of being sexually, or otherwise, assaulted by a man. Whereas the vast majority of murders - and robberies, so far as I know - are committed by someone who's the same race as the victim. So this strikes me as an apples-and-oranges comparison, to say the least.

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"you are Schrödinger’s Rapist" [View all] galileoreloaded Jun 2013 OP

Anyone I don't know is Schroedinger's (Fill In the Blank). DavidDvorkin Jun 2013 #1

Exactly. Most of us are at least somewhat wary around strangers, and with good reason. nomorenomore08 Jun 2013 #2

All it means is that a woman can't necessarily tell a man who might harm her, from one who wouldn't. nomorenomore08 Jun 2013 #3

Much the way I can't tell a dangerous hispanic person from a benign one. lumberjack_jeff Jun 2013 #4

So you equate women's wariness of strange men, with racism? nomorenomore08 Jun 2013 #5

Not really. Behind the Aegis Jun 2013 #6

Okay. I guess you have a point there. nomorenomore08 Jun 2013 #7

Wariness of strangers in general isn't a problem. Behind the Aegis Jun 2013 #8

I do see the correlation, at least so far as I don't think women should live in fear of all men. nomorenomore08 Jun 2013 #9

There is definately something to be said for being vigilant. Behind the Aegis Jun 2013 #10

Indeed. And while I may not know what it's like firsthand, I do sympathize with what you've nomorenomore08 Jun 2013 #11

The idea of Schrödinger’s Rapist is not as bad as the ideas which spin from it Major Nikon Jul 2013 #12

kinda my point. galileoreloaded Jul 2013 #13