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Not what I am saying.ok...... i shouldnt have said anything here n i think i got made fun of for saying stuff n other stuff i wish i hadnt said in a place like this.
You have every right to protect yourself the way you see fit. It's your life. If you need to stay out of men for now, it's totally fine. You know best what's good for you to keep you functioning.
Forums like this can be a bit bad places to talk about personal stuff, people are not very sensitive on boards like this, to say the least. Many people are just venting their own feelings here and don't think about anyone elses feelings on the way.
ok...... i shouldnt have said anything here n i think i got made fun of for saying stuff n other stuff i wish i hadnt said in a place like this.
Dude come on. We know what would happen if this sort of attitude was expressed towards any other group.
Men getting stereotyped as rapists? Hang on, a woman's feelings are being hurt! This must take priority!
Do you view Muslims in the same light? All Muslims could be potential terrorists. Or how about black people. You know that the black man is a minority of the population yet by percentages of race commit more crime.If I had a bowl of candy, and one of them was laced with a poison that would kill you, you would look at every candy in that bowl as potential poison. It is not a statement about the candy, but about how you must look at the candy if you want to protect yourself.
As a woman, I have to look at every man I encounter as someone who could be a rapist. I know that the vast majority of men are not, but the point is that I can't tell. And since the magnitude of the outcome is rather extreme, I have to take precautions to protect myself against it. If I let my guard down, then horrible things could happen to me.
So when people say, "every man is a potential rapist," it is not saying that all men could commit rape. It is saying that this is how women must view men.
You are exactly right on this. We all have the potential to sin and commit heinous acts. Say that all,men are potential rapists is the same as saying all men are potential murderers, liars and thieves. Yes we all have dark hearts. The heart of man is exceedingly wicked who can know it.(and learn Y'SHUA'S Protection from HIS WORD,)
but then> even HE did not trust men.
so,
YES, Rather better not to trust any man, even with perfect credentials and high prestige or status (that is how the enemy deceives so many so easily).
See the news abouthe theologic school in texas and the scandal on the news today - the coverup , long investigation, purposefully they refused to deal with it (the higher up administration).... just like in all the other big 'groups', including the biggest, for over 1000 years....
THAT is what is in men......
EVEN Y'SHUA MESSIAH DID NOT TRUST MEN !
YLT
and Jesus himself was not trusting himself to them, because of his knowing all [men],
VOICE
But Jesus saw through to the heart of humankind, and He chose not to give them what they requested. He didn’t need anyone to prove to Him the character of humanity. He knew what man was made of.
MSG
During the time he was in Jerusalem, those days of the Passover Feast, many people noticed the signs he was displaying and, seeing they pointed straight to God, entrusted their lives to him. But Jesus didn’t entrust his life to them. He knew them inside and out, knew how untrustworthy they were. He didn’t need any help in seeing right through them.
John 2:24
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But Jesus did not commit Himself unto them, because He knew all men,
ASV
But Jesus did not trust himself unto them, for that he knew all men,
Dude come on. We know what would happen if this sort of attitude was expressed towards any other group.
Men getting stereotyped as rapists? Hang on, a woman's feelings are being hurt! This must take priority!
And I can by the same rationale view every police officer as my potential murderer and every white person as a racist.
But if I'm doing that, how can I as a Christian see them as potential brothers?
"Every man is a potential rapist" does not say the same thing as "I have to look at every man I encounter as someone who could be a rapist."
"Every man is a potential rapist" is an existential assertion about every man as long as he exists. It's saying the same thing about a 102-year-old man that it says about a 30-year-old man, and that's precisely what the third wave+ feminists who say it intend.
If that's not what you mean, then don't make that statement and don't defend that statement.
Excuse me, I didn't make the statement.
I am explaining what the person who did make the statement meant.
But you don't know what that person meant. We do know, however, what the Third Wave feminists who originated it meant because they've said so. They see every man as a continually potential rapist. In their view, your father will potentially rape you, your brother will potentially rape you, every man you know, no matter how well you think you know him, will potentially rape you until he's dead because in their view that's the inescapable essentially of being male.
Excuse me, but I live with this. As a man, you do not live with people making sexual remarks about you as you walk down the street.
But of course, I'm just a woman. I need a man to tell me what life is really like for a woman.
If I had a bowl of candy, and one of them was laced with a poison that would kill you, you would look at every candy in that bowl as potential poison. It is not a statement about the candy, but about how you must look at the candy if you want to protect yourself.
As a woman, I have to look at every man I encounter as someone who could be a rapist. I know that the vast majority of men are not, but the point is that I can't tell. And since the magnitude of the outcome is rather extreme, I have to take precautions to protect myself against it. If I let my guard down, then horrible things could happen to me.
So when people say, "every man is a potential rapist," it is not saying that all men could commit rape. It is saying that this is how women must view men.
Excuse me, but I live with this. As a man, you do not live with people making sexual remarks about you as you walk down the street.
But of course, I'm just a woman. I need a man to tell me what life is really like for a woman.
Do you prefer being preemptive or doing remediation?
Excuse me, but I live with this. As a man, you do not live with people making sexual remarks about you as you walk down the street.
But of course, I'm just a woman. I need a man to tell me what life is really like for a woman.
When I was a child, my parents had to carefully teach me that any white person could kill me and there was nothing they could do about it, and nothing would happen to that person. I was taught to treat every white person as a personal threat--like a grizzly bear wandering into a campsite.
As a black man today, I still have to sweat bullets any time I'm pulled over by police. If they were to kill me, most people would say I must have had it coming to me.
I've been explicitly told by a woman on this forum that despite the fact I'm in my 60s, she would regard me as a physical threat because I'm black.
You think fear is unique to you?
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