Exactly!
Then disregarding the actions away in an interview after the fact...
Gross! Especially after remarking that others identified that behavior as thoroughly inappropriate.
C'mon!
Perhaps the most important quote in this book:
"A man is afraid a woman will laugh at him.
A woman is afraid a man will kill her."
It's not the same as one man grabbing another man's ass.
Not even close.
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Indeed. I can't imagine having that lodged at the back of my mind my entire life. I mean what percentage of violent crime is committed by men in the US?
Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter 88.7%
Forcible rape 99.1
Robbery 87.0%
Aggravated assault 77.1%
Source: FBI 2012 crime stats
And I wouldn't be at all surprised to find out that of the 11.3% of murders and non-negligent manslaughters committed by women a good deal of them were likely acts of self-defense that they were not able to get adequate defense for because self-defense can be really hard to prove without witnesses - who might only be kids - and things like psychological battery aren't widely recognized. Plus many Americans don't get any quality legal representation at all.
PS. Just wanted to be clear that I was only saying perhaps he thought being gay gives him a free pass to be "one of the girls" and as such could write it off as a same-sex thing, you know "just a bro-hug with ass squeeze for a laugh" and if that was what he thought, or rationalized it as afterwards, he was oh so wrong. And I'm probably doing gay people a gross injustice to imply that anyway - although many of my gay friends do have close girlfriends who treat them almost like girlfriends too, those are very familiar relationships developed over years. They don't go around man-handling the breasts of the women they meet. As for men they meet at a nightclub club wearing chaps or whatever? Who knows... ;-) But that plays precisely into the what men and women are afraid of narrative you introduced.