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Grow Some Labia's avatar

Not always. A friend of mine was molested by a man in a public restroom when he was 14. And when he told his mother she accused him of lying. <rolls eyes> La plus ca change...

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Forest's avatar

We'd all welcome a way to separate the predatory males away from the innocent people. We can't do that 100% but we can do a bit.

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Steve QJ's avatar

Exactly. I often point out that the exclusion of men in female spaces extends to gay men and old, frail men and disabled men and even to young boys past the age of 10 or so.

It's not that these men are a threat to women or that they themselves are not in danger in male spaces. It's that the less absolutists a ban on men in women's spaces is, the more likely it is to be meaningless.

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Grow Some Labia's avatar

Or just separate the predatory ones from the safe ones. Like, a Mark of the Beast that appears on a man's forehead when he approaches women or children. ;) Or *anyone* who's violent.

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