Do you make a conscious effort, as a man, to make women feel safe in the streets?

[MaxPain]

I know there’s a lot of younger posters on here so let me explain.

Us men can be very intimidating to women as strangers. You may be good guy that would never hurt a fly, but unfortunately, a lot of women don’t feel safe when they’re walking alone. Especially if there’s a male presence in the vicinity who they aren’t familiar with.

Seeing a man walking towards them or from behind can intimidate and keep them on edge. I do my best to mitigate that.

If it’s late at night and a woman is walking towards me at a distance, I cross the street. If I’m behind her, again, I cross the street or keep a great distance away from her. If I’m on a train and it’s just us two, again, I do my best to keep my distance.

This may seem over the top but this can make a lot of difference to women. I know I’m going to get the “why have we got to inconvenience ourselves because of a few bad apples?” Well sadly, there are a lot of fukked up guys out there. I’ve never once felt intimidated walking around a bad neighbourhood at 3am in the morning. But a lot of women feel trepidation just walking around in the afternoon.

Unfortunately, almost every woman in my life are reluctant to leave the house alone, even when they’re driving. Us as men should not only try women feel safe but check these morons who get out of pocket with women.

nope, dgaf their problem not mines. Buy a gun if ur scared or stop walking around at 3am.

 

[Kenwins01]

I know there’s a lot of younger posters on here so let me explain.

Us men can be very intimidating to women as strangers. You may be good guy that would never hurt a fly, but unfortunately, a lot of women don’t feel safe when they’re walking alone. Especially if there’s a male presence in the vicinity who they aren’t familiar with.

Seeing a man walking towards them or from behind can intimidate and keep them on edge. I do my best to mitigate that.

If it’s late at night and a woman is walking towards me at a distance, I cross the street. If I’m behind her, again, I cross the street or keep a great distance away from her. If I’m on a train and it’s just us two, again, I do my best to keep my distance.

This may seem over the top but this can make a lot of difference to women. I know I’m going to get the “why have we got to inconvenience ourselves because of a few bad apples?” Well sadly, there are a lot of fukked up guys out there. I’ve never once felt intimidated walking around a bad neighbourhood at 3am in the morning. But a lot of women feel trepidation just walking around in the afternoon.

Unfortunately, almost every woman in my life are reluctant to leave the house alone, even when they’re driving. Us as men should not only try and make our women feel safe but check these morons who get out of pocket with women.

We’ll society says that black men are the most violent and criminal beings on the earth. I believe it’s fair to say that’s what the mass media has pushed for the last 100 years in the US.

So, using your logic......... as a black man I should go out of my way to make sure white people and all other races feel comfortable when I’m in the streets at night time right?I should keep my distance from others and always keep a wide watermelon grin on my face so they all know that I’m a safe negro to be around.

Also, if us black men are ever on an elevator alone with a woman....white woman especially, how about we ask that woman to hold our ID until she gets to her right floor, that way if we aren’t able to control our natural deviant urges to rape her or steal her purse....then she can easily report us black men. What’s your thoughts on that one, you think that will make a woman feel safer? I’m open to any other ideas you might have on how men can go out of their natural way to make other strangers feel comfortable with our presence.

 

[HarlemHottie]

No. With white women moving in my neighborhood and my building, it's as if I'm the one who doesn't belong there. Outside of my mom, I'm not worrying about how women feel in the streets.

So Im lumped in with gentrification Karen by default?

How do they see themselves as women?

Red pill 101: Men and women are different. Men are, on average, taller, heavier, and have more muscle mass.

Women are acutely aware of this, making every man a potential threat, simply by existing. Like a nuke, even the threat is enough.

Therefore, men who want women feminine and soft go out of their way, generally, to extend a small amount of protection to ALL women (with obvious exceptions and within reason- don't get ridiculous with this), thereby keeping womem out of that masculine 'I have to be ready to defend myself' mind set.

Similar to how you might pick up a random piece of trash you didn't drop, just to keep the clean neighborhood vibes going.

I personally think a few examples in the op were doing a TAD too much, but at the same time, I'd appreciate it. Hard enough to scope potential scumbags out of a crowd. If yall would sort yourselves out (good guys not engaging in potentially scumbag activity, ie, walking close behind me on a dark street), it would really be a help.

If not, whatever.

 

[Gold]

Yes always. But im a 6'5 jacked black man, ive grown up knowing that people will always feel intimidated around me, even though i am not a scary looking person.

Honestly its less headache for me as well. I told yall about the walmart story where the lady screamed at me cuz i opened my car door and she felt trapped.

Women walk around terrified 24/7... i really dont wanna deal with their fear so if i can lessen that by catching the next elevator or by walking a little slower.... i will.

Its not a huge inconvenience for me

 

[ThrobbingHood]

"If I See A Bad Chick, Ima Approach Her..I'm No Sucker" Woman Records Man Following & Harassing Her After Repeatedly Telling Him She's Not Interested!

Thanks to @Mr Mulsanne for reminding me about this thread.

 

[SadimirPutin]

I give them appropriate physical space.


But it doesnt go much further than that.....I am not drastically inconveniencing myself for them

 

[SheWantTheD]

I ain't doing none of that shyt.

Now if an actual threat poses itself then I'll intervene.

But I'm not crossing the street or moving over to make a woman "feel more safe".

 

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at some of the responses in here

 

[frush11]

When it comes to walking around at night time. I try not to walk behind anybody for too long or keep a good distance. Cause I hate when someone is walking behind me for too long.