The dynamic is a lot different, due to societal attitudes where it's OK for women to abuse men and men are sissies if they report it. The problem is, it's largely men who enforce these societal attitudes.
And we all know why. We've seen the heroes who go rushing to the defense of the "damsels in distress" even after seeing they struck first, with no regard for the possibility that they could be on the receiving end of all that male heroism when it's their turn to be assaulted by women. Are men the victims of sexism, or are they the culprits for participating in it?
Women shell out billions a year fighting for their rights, while men shell out billions a year for prostitution. Look at those numbers, and tell me why women's issues get all of the attention.
Men won't even defend their sons against a school system that allows girls to assault them, and doesn't even grant them the right to protect themselves. On the contrary, when boys do protect themselves, the fathers side with the girls and the schools against their sons. I know men don't see it that way, but that's what they're doing whether they want to admit it or not.
If you don't agree, then name one lawsuit filed by men against the school system demanding equal protection for their sons. Oh, I forgot, only sissies would do this. Whose choice is that?
If men aren't aren't going to fight back against these double standards, that's their choice. I don't see that as a reason to avoid speaking out against men treating women like this.
I think a lot of what you are saying is based upon current societal creations. Men having egos allowing them to be targets, women being targets, children being targets, are no different than people being accosted with the violent crimes in our surroundings.
And unfortunately our education system, our justice system, and our “media” are on equal terms with the ignoring and pardoning of it.
A few years ago my wife was walking in front of me out of a ball park in San Francisco when a guy reached in front of me and pitched her behind. When the wife cried out, I placed the man in a sugar hold and chocked him out in about 10 seconds. I left him there on the ground as the crowd walked past him sometimes not seeing him and stepping on him. If I had called security, nothing would have been done as it wouldn’t have made any difference to them. They’d have gotten him walking again, and he’d have walked or spent a minimal jail sentence and got out to do it again.
But to say that the act of harassment of the attendants is a one way street isn’t exactly correct. Harassing people on the streets is no different. So the article was trying to sensationalize itself by using women as the bait. Are there problems? Yes. But the problems are not sexual, they are criminal. It needs to be treated as such in all instances. Not just with women and their gender.
rwood