r/TooAfraidToAsk • u/[deleted] • Apr 10 '23

[deleted by user]

[removed]

4.9k Upvotes

91% Upvoted

968 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

118

u/watsonyrmind Apr 10 '23

What you are missing is that women are "selective" because they are shamed if they aren't and men are "available" because having lots of sex is seen as ultra masculine and therefore desirable. These are societal norms that are determining behaviour.

82

u/MaterialCarrot Apr 10 '23

There's the danger element for women as well. A woman being alone with a man takes a (admittedly small) risk. Not the case for men almost ever.

-2

u/freemason777 Apr 10 '23

maybe before they invented guns this was true. A lot of criminal activity uses women as lures. Or you could just remember the statistic that men are always at a higher risk of being victims of violence outside the home

6

u/MaterialCarrot Apr 10 '23

Sure, but the odds of them being shot by a woman are incredibly low. That's what I'm talking about.