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Originally Posted by Burninator
So if you are not projecting your own feelings onto the whole male population what point are you trying to make? Honestly, you keep moving the goal posts. What does fear have to do with it? Fear is not a requirement of sexual assault. Why are you even bringing it up?
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At no ponit have I ever denied that a man or woman getting their crotch or arse grabbed is not, by law, a sexual assualt, I am saying that the effect of getting your crotch grabbed if you are a man is significantly different than it is for a woman because thats all thats going to happen, we don't spend our adult lives fearing a guy walking behind us at night or a group of drunk dudes at a party the way every woman I know does, for us the only rape fear we have revoloves around going to jail and being raped by a group of dudes, fear is part of the damage a sexual assault inflictes, it is what causes the PTSD effects that are so damaging.
This is exactly the same as the domestic violence arguement, yes every guy I have ever known has been hit by a woman at some point in time in their life but except in a very small number of cases it is nothing they or I worry about as the physical effect of having a wife or girlfriend haul off is just not that significant to most guys, for women it tends to mean a trip to emergancy or worse.
There is, in general, a massive difference in a mans ability to hurt a woman in an assault, sexual or otherwise, than a woman on a man.