# Women, Sexual Assault, and the Fear of Men

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 15, 2016, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-sexual-assault-and-the-fear-of-men/768611 "2016-10-15T16:55:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2016, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-sexual-assault-and-the-fear-of-men/768611/26 "2016-10-16T21:37:53Z")

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…responding to your post in the other [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=806891)in the appropriate one:

> [@Women: share your stories of having your crotch grabbed (when you didn't want it)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-share-your-stories-of-having-your-crotch-grabbed-when-you-didnt-want-it/768105/303):
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> I’m on quite solid and high ground in both my opinion and activism on this subject and only posted to say what, essentially, Spice Weasel wound up saying much better in her thread.

Ya know, to borrow from the gamergoobers for a minute, you should really “stop using women as a shield”. I don’t have a big issue with what Spice Weasel said. I have big issues with what you said: because you have said different things to what Spice Weasel said. Take responsibility for your own words. Whatever “solid and high ground” you may think you are on: that ground is “just your opinion.” I don’t think you are on “solid or high ground” at all.

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> women’s views toward men as a result of sexual assault, my view that they have an important impact on our ability as a species to address the problem

“Women’s views towards men as a result of sexual assault” don’t really have an “important impact on our ability as a species to address the problem.” If someone decides not to return a smile: that doesn’t impact our ability to address this problem at all. If women decide not to rely on “spidey sense” (because the stories in the other thread demonstrate that this “spidey sense”, if it exists, failed them every single time) then how does that affect us, as a species, to address the problem?

What problem exactly do you think you have been trying to address in that other thread?

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