Society can't say men are paranoid of being viewed as creeps. While simultaneously talking about how uncomfortable men make women.
People, especially feminists say that men who are scared of being viewed as creeps are just closeted creeps. Who can't tell the differences between inappropriate behavior and appropriate behavior. Basically saying that men who are just cordial with women in the workplace or even the public, only have two dumb options. Either being a creepy man or a robot who doesn't interact with women at all.
The problem here is that people think false allegations are just a Men Rights movement boogeyman, that paint all women as evil liars.
This isn't necessarily the case all the time though. Two people can walk into the same room, and interact with each other. And come out of that room with different perspectives on what happened in that room. Misinterpretations happen all the time.
And also we tell men they must listen to women fears. Because it's important right?
Women say it makes them uncomfortable when men approach them. Remember that analogy where women would rather be alone in the woods with a bear. Because they think a random man would be more dangerous than a bear.
Women say that it's not all men, but always a man though. Women say that every woman they know have a SA experience. Women say they are not mind readers who can magically know which men are good or bad. Since those men are strangers or men they don't know well. So women must be cautious, and assume all men are potential threats. Because it's better to be safe, than sorry.
What are the statistics again? IIRC 1 out of four women get assaulted. And men are statistically more violent. A lot of women say they have to give out fake numbers. Because they don't know how a man would react to the word no.
And I don't think it's fair to say I'm generalizing women here. Either it's all (or most women) share a universal experience, and men must understand that (men are often criticize a lot for not understanding that). Or none of this is true, women feel safe when walking alone at night. So men who don't interact with women are just being irrationally paranoid or closeted creeps. It can't be both.
Similar to how women aren't mind readers that can magically tell the difference between good men and bad men. So they must be cautious, and assume all men are potential threats. Men are also not mind readers who can magically tell when a woman wants to be approached, or not be approached (especially in public or the workplace). So men must be cautious, and assume that all women don't want to be approached. Again it's better to be safe than sorry.
Men are drag through the mug, when they mentioned the phrase "not all men". Because people say this phrase downplay women experiences. And take away attention from women valid fears.
But whenever I see people call men paranoid or closeted creeps for limiting their interactions with women. They ironically use the phrase "not all men". So when it comes to this specific topic of men interacting with women less. Why is the phrase "not all men" ok all of a sudden?