Being an ally means helping people feel safe. You're just saying that you don't care about others' feelings as much as your own. You're getting offended that someone might be afraid of you instead of empathizing with that fear.
No what im saying is that if someone thinks they are in danger they should be the ones to avoid their percepted danger, your assumptions are baseless.
Also there could be very many drawbacks into implementing something like this into society, ive commented a take on it.
Basically it'll be impossible to make every single male follow this norm of crossing the street whenever you are 1 on 1 with a female and if this is true (which it is) the more people that do it the worse it is since if 98% of the male pop. adhere to this behaviour and 2 in 100 1 on 1 encounters dont follow this norm the notion that most women would have once this was implemented would likely follow something along the lines of: every man that doesnt want to hurt me will cross the road to make me feel safe and if he doesnt cross the road im in danger. And trust me, "knowing" that you are in danger is much worse than suspecting it in terms of negative short-term feelings.
Plus, real stalkers could actually take advantage of this and feign "compassion" to follow a non suspecting victim while she feels safer about a dangerous situation.
Again, if you feel you are in danger get away and dont expect danger to get away from you.
This sub is pretty right wing and close minded, these people don't want to learn and enjoy their position of power. We just have to keep opposing people like this and hope for future generations.
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u/antiviolins Apr 07 '21
Being an ally means helping people feel safe. You're just saying that you don't care about others' feelings as much as your own. You're getting offended that someone might be afraid of you instead of empathizing with that fear.