You’re worrying about the wrong thing here. The fact that so many men do these kind of creepy behaviours, and that men who do them are largely indistinguishable from men you meet every day, means that from women’s perspective “men do creepy things, I need to be careful” is an entirely reasonable prior.

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chneu 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

It's reasonable but it's also self-fulfilling.

Thinking every man is a predator is a great way to mostly meet male predators and wind up alone.

On app dates, it's extremely obvious when the person you're sitting down with has the "every man is a predator" attitude. Being treated like that isn't fun. Then a lot of people wonder why all their dates fail or go nowhere or why they can't move outside the app.

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imtringued 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

And yet it is also bigotry towards the innocent.

	▲	lotsofpulp 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		It is always interesting to see which prior probabilities are seen as acceptable for use and which are not. Humans have a very limited amount of time, and coupled with risk of physical danger, it should be expected for prior probabilities to be used. I would even go so far as to say necessary for long term survival. In this case, given the long, well established history of the subjugation of women by men, I would say they are well within their rights to be "careful".