Mechavomit

The law has gaps. Sometimes. Even often in some countries. I've heard that women tend to get significantly less jail time and countries like the UK the can force sex on a man and not be considered a rapist. Sometimes men get away with rape, sometimes people get away with murder even.
There was a case in my city a few years ago where a gang of 5 people ambushed a man, who was escorting his wife home through a little forest, since she was working late. They tortured them both all night, the man died on the spot and the woman died on her way to the hospital. The whole forest was covered in blood, it was scary. The murderers? They got only 10 years. So yeah, its' scary. But I know so little about law and how it works so I just say to myself "If you trust the court to find someone guilty, you should trust it when it finds someone innocent".

I'm sorry for you bad experiences. However, I fail to see how that can relate to feminism because the law and society punishes people for that kind of behavior. It's not the norm. If it weren't against the law for a man to assault a woman then yes, we could say that something needs to be done, but the way I see it is that there will always be bad people. Always and everywhere. And we cannot fix grown men, we can only throw them in jail. The one thing we can and should do, imo, is watch how we raise our kids to avoid making jerks who feel 0 guilt for hurting another human being.
 
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I do not understand what world you live in, people.
I, as a woman, have NEVER been mistreated by a man (for being female, in any case). I used to get bullied a lot as a kid, but it was mostly by girls and only a few boys, the others even protected me sometimes. I learned that in online games whenever I mention my gender, I can hope for gifts, help and other free stuff just for being a girl. I'm used to dudes holding doors open for me. Whenever I don't get the door held I feel wierded out like "didn't your mother teach you how to treat a lady?". It happens so often, I'm actually EXPECTING men to act all gentlemansy. I sometimes get seats in public transport offered to me by men (mostly by older men, but still..).
I can ask pretty much any of my friends and they would agree - they don't feel mistreated. Or maybe they just find someone staring at their cleavage devastating, I dunno.

But I'm not a non-feminist for those reasons, I'm a non-feminist because I feel that feminists are the most miserable people in the world. The pressure you to fear men, they try to convince that no, you ARE a victim, that you're weak, everyone out there is out to get you. And if you say otherwise, you're just broken, you don't understand and you need help. I once read on Tumblr that "if a girl tells you she's not afraid of men, maybe you're the kind of guy she just doesn't trust". Another gem was on another website, where a girl stated that "if you say that you've never been abused by a guy you're either a forest fairy or a cowardly lier" - now that was straight offensive.


Sorry, if I offended anyone. This is just my world and it seems really far away from yours..