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In reply to the discussion: We all know men who think they deserve to own women: This is a horrifying exaggeration of that. [View all]KitSileya
(4,035 posts)but that doesn't mean that it's been eradicated, far from it. 2/3 of all women who are shot to death in the US are killed by men they were or are in a relationship with. One of the most dangerous time for a woman in an abusive relationship is when she gets pregnant, and my theory is that it is because the man is jealous of the rival baby. The other trigger point is, of course, when she leaves him. That needs no explanation.
Men holler at women who walk past them, they shout comments on their looks, tell them to smile, initiate conversations despite women's clear body language saying they want to be left alone. In other words, women are there to satisfy men, there for men's viewing pleasure, for men to hit on.
How many cases of men who have kept women prisoners have come up these past years, and everyone's been absolutely shocked, shocked I tell you? They were such nice men, with jobs, friendly with their neighbors, respected in their community. They're not always the weirdos in the basements, those on the fringe of society, not that some aren't. But while the profile on these predators most often has one thing in common - they're men. Thank goodness they're an absolute minority of men, but it all springs out of a culture that says getting caught raping is worse than being raped (Steubenville), that women wanting to control their own bodies is wrong (birth control, abortion, abstinence education), that men who don't participate in this culture are women-like or gay (p*ssies and the like).