But you are claiming that men do not have fears like women do.

“But you don’t walk across the street with fear of being violated, you don’t. You don’t fear a man coming your way at night, in the middle of a well lit street, you don’t even flinch, its only a man.”

A strange man at night raises my hackles. A taxi driver taking me to a strange place doesn’t make me fear rape — it makes me fear death. If I am killed during a mugging gone wrong I will just be a statistic. A larger man accosting me at the bar can leave me disfigured or dead with a powerful, solitary punch. There will be no social outcry or international movement or blog post for people like me. For us, it’s just life as normal.