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Men always like to talk about how women are shooting themselves in the foot for not putting men on a pedestal because without men around they won’t be protected.
Well today I have another argument to declare that as a myth.
My mother called she was shaking and said that there was an armed robbery at the grocery store she went to. a man pulled out a knife at a female cashier and he demanded money, she refused to comply and started to yell at him. She stood her ground and where were the men? Just standing there to watch. There were security guards who also did nothing. The manager came shaking in his boots trying to calm him down. No police was called by anyone. Nobody came up with a plan to overthrow him. There were heaps of hornet sprays to kill a whole nest sold there, Including bear spray. any of them could have grabbed a bottle and spray it in his eyes. I understand ppl are scared but it’s no excuse to just stand there and watch. At least call 911, look for reinforcements. If you want to call yourself a man who is rationally thinking and the so called “strongest sex” then at least act like it.
There you have it. Men are not protectors. They are all talk.
I've worked at a hotel and the bar next door there would be awful fist fights on occasion and the men almost always just stare and are cowardly. I was shocked since I was raised by a combat veteran. They really have us fooled thinking all men are going to put themselves in a situation where they won't benefit
Men protect!
Each other.
So true! Never in my life have I ever witnessed a man protect me or anyone else against danger or take action to help others in an emergency. They cause danger though.
whenever someone tries to justify their misogyny to me with that “mEn ArE pRoTeCtOrS” bs, I ask “what do women need to be protected from?” Because it’s men who are our greatest danger.
I have one positive story. When I was 12 I was on an overpass walking to school. Some teenagers were up ahead of me, smoking what I am assuming was weed. A creepy guy hurried to catch up to me and said, "Looks like those kids are smoking some pretty bad, stuff, huh?" My gut said, "RUN!", but my socialization had taught me to give people the benefit of the doubt. I felt sorry for him and didn't want to make him feel bad. Before I knew it, he was on top of me, trying to get my clothes off. I tried to scream, but nothing came out at first. Finally, I was able to scream. I heard the guys ahead up ahead say "HEY!" They came running, and the guy got up and ran off. The teens said, "Did he touch you?" and I nodded. They chased after him calling him a pervert. They weren't able to catch him, but it turned out they had filed a police report (my school did, too, after I explained what happened). They showed up in court to testify.
So men (even potheads) can show up for us sometimes! I think the problem is that they look toward the "alpha male" for guidance. In this case, the alpha was a good man, and did the right thing, so the others followed. But if men see who they deem to be the alpha not doing anything, they think that's what they should do, too.
Oh, by the way- the man who attacked me turned out to be a rapist who had just been let out of jail after raping two women. I was notified a few months later that he was being released again. Our system is a joke.
women need to be protected from men, if you ever doubt that look up the domestic violence levels.
the protection men give you is conditional, it depends on whenever you want to be controlled by one man rather than a bunch.
Men are protecting women from other men. It's a racket.
It also makes no logical sense scientifically speaking, because by this sexist logic women would never evolve to have defense mechanisms. I know protection is usually measured by the success of whether or not the threat was eliminated but biologically speaking, if men were constant protectors then women wouldn't need innate defenses.
You know those crime episodes where it shows the women fighting for her life and she has the perpetrators skin under their nails? We're human, we're animals. It makes no fucking sense to put all the protecting onto men, when men will not be around all the damn time. Also, isn't funny how when it comes to the concept of gender, women need to be skinny, no muscle at all, she can't be stronger than him in any capacity because it's to manly, and they say "how is he gonna protect you if you can do it yourself?" and the guy feels eMaScUlAtEd. If anything it would be good as an ANIMAL to be ANIMALISTIC when a threat is present.
Dehumanizing women to make them codependent on men so women project their animalistic defenses onto men, so men have even more power. So damn stupid.
Men aren’t just low value protectors. It’s even worse. Lv pornsick men and the mainstream media actively try to program women from childhood to UNLEARN defense mechanisms. They’re creating a bunch of pickmes that accept bdsm and other types of sexual abuse.
Men say women wouldn’t be able to survive without men, because men are physically stronger and “BiOLoGy” If physical strength and size were the most important things for survival then animals like rabbits, squirrels, small birds, porcupines, skunks, foxes, badgers ect. Would have died off a long time ago.
Living things adapt and all have their own unique ways of keeping themselves safe. Men just put physical domination on a pedestal. If it was really the absolute best strategy then why did so many large apex predators go extinct?
Usually it’s because, there isn’t enough food or oxegen density to sustain such large animals (especially the carnivore ones because their diet was very limited and took much more energy to maintain). Plants don’t need be chased down and plants don’t kick you in the head.
Large predatory animals have constant competition, because rival apex predators constantly fight each other for the same resources, whether its territory, a carcass or a mate.
Large animals also have poor stealth and a lot of them are unable to take shelter from harsh elements because of their large size. If theres a drought and heat wave good luck hiding in a hollow tree or digging a burrow for shade if you’re the size of a Tyrannosaurus rex
This squirrel would be a more reliable protector for women than most lvm would be. Much more cute and pleasant be be around too. 😂
One of those famous early feminists from the 1850s said something like ‘you men are not our protectors, if you were, who would you be protecting us from’.
REAL MEN are protectors. The ones who call other men out on their misogyny. The ones who do what they can to help us out of situations other men cause. The ones who understand the insane bullshit women live with and do what they can to mitigate our need to navigate daily life so carefully.
Sadly, they are few and far in between.
This is so true. I can’t tell you how many men are downright MAD and HURT that they are expected to show protection, strength, and masculinity, which they asked and created a system for might I add, in certain situations. Men would rather have a bunch of women struggle to lift furniture than help because, “waahhh I’m so sad women expect to carry heavy things, just because I’m a man, …” or “I just know in a dangerous situation I’m gonna be the one on the front line” like yeah, no shit? It genuinely makes me wonder why they don’t understand our disinterest in them. Why even have them around? Like seriously, why? Not to mention the hypocrisy of expecting us to follow our gender norms to a capital T. Like homie what’s worse, you have to actually put in some fucking effort once in a blue moon or the dawning realization of horror that your girlfriend has just experienced because you used her as a literal human shield because you are a coward. Not speaking from personal experience thankfully but I’m sure so many women could provide SO many examples of the men in their lives flaking at the EXACT moment they were supposed to show up as men. Lord. I can also on the flip side talk endlessly about so many female badasses in my life that showed up in these same moments because that is just what they do.
Ultimately the patriarchy really does harm us all and I do wish we could get past outdated gender norms and not so heavily categorize men and women because in some ways it is definitely limiting. Despite this, I just feel it’s so fucked to feel so unprotected and vulnerable even when we are with our supposed protectors. And then them to have the audacity to point out their own hypocrisy as they speak and seeing in their words their apparent knowledge that being forced into gender roles does in fact suck.
I guess to come full circle, under patriarchy we will never be able to see our oppressors as our protectors, because under this system no one who oppresses us can ever protect us while actively continuing to harm us.