Originally posted by Davisite
I have been thinking over the weekend about the tragic rape and murder of Aiia Maarsarwe and it struck me that we have a real problem with masculinity in our young men - a lack of it.
When I was the age of Aiia and her friends there is no way I would have let woman I knew travel home alone at midnight, let alone let her walk more than a km in the dark. I must have walked multiple dozens of my female friends and aquaintances home after a night out just to make sure they got home safely. There was nothing special about this as all my friends did the same thing - the idea that you would let some woman walk home alone after midnight was something that never crossed our minds.
Where were the friends of Aiia looking out for her welfare? Have the young men of Australia become such PC dills that they think it is OK for a defenceless woman to make her own way home alone at midnight? The problem is not sexist atitudes towards women, but a complete lack of masculinity in our young men.
A year or so after the murder of Jill Meagher I was out in a group in a bar with a female who was an ABC employee. I along with another guy she knows well offered to walk her multiple times to a taxi rank to get a cab home. She refused to allow us to accompany her so eventually we gave in to her wish and let her walk off alone. I guess there are two (or is it 3) points:
1) The most likely person to sexually assault a female is a male they know
2) You can't force a female to accept what you regard as an act of assistance.
3) Statistically males are significantly more likely to be murdered than females in a public place. I was probably at greater risk of being murdered than she was even though that risk seemed negligible to non existent.
Reaper
