I know I've only been here since November but I've never seen anyone say "all men are rapists"

[Squinch]

68. Let's review, again, the meaning of the phrase. This has been said many times before

but it seems like once more won't hurt.

It does not mean that women expect all men to be rapists. It does not mean that anyone thinks that half the population is disposed to be uncooperative by nature.

It means that women need to ascertain that a man is trustworthy before she trusts him. She needs to not leave her drink unattended unless she knows the man well, she needs not to get in a car with a man she doesn't know, she needs to be careful about the men she allows to have unsupervised access to her children. This is because she doesn't know which men are unsafe just by looking at them.

DUer wryter2000 put it well: do you give out your social security number to strangers? Of course not, because all strangers are potential identity thieves. Do you really think that all strangers are identity thieves? No, you don't. And yet, you're still not going to tell me your social security number if I ask you. In the same way, you do not put yourself in a vulnerable position with a man who you don't know.

I don't know why this is such a difficult thing to understand.